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Soundland Alberta
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Guitar Originals is a recording of original works from the 20th century for classical guitar, featuring the only CD recording available of the Sonata for Guitar by the distinguished Canadian composer Harry Somers.Joseph Petric began exploring electroacoustic media in the early 1980s. Gems is a compendium of some of his most performed commissions in the 1980s. The electroacoustic works included in this disc by composers Hatch and Hatzis represent a breakthrough in the marriage of computer technology and the practical exigencies of concert production.After fifteen years of pushing the envelope, show-casing and commissioning chamber works by young Canadian composers, Continuum contemporary music is launching its first CD, entitled Continuum 1.The Transfigurations
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Inspired by a year-long sojourn in Spain and Europe, Danielle Cumming features works by composers who, like her, spent time in other cultures and came away with their own musical impressions, or postcards.Spirit Reel is a set of variations on an original reel of the same title.Vivianne Cardinal assembled a group of renowned musicians whose improvising and accompanying prowess can't be disputed. Saxophonist Phil Dwyer, trumpeter Steve McDade, drummer Billy Drummond, pianist Brian Buchanan and bassist Jim Vivian each contribute with precision and creativity.The selections on this recording offer a taste of some of the colourful and stylistically diverse types of music that embody the spirit of exploration and eclecticism shared by the opening and closing decades.Thomas Baker, piano and Kye Marshall, cello recorded live November 1996, at Trinity United Church, Uxbridge, Ontario.Mr. Underhill writes: "I have long been fascinated by the unusual and poetic place-names for lunar features which were created by Johannes Ricciocoli in the mid-17th century. One such name is the 'Bay of Dew' or 'Sinus Roris' in Latin. The 'Bay of Dew' is in fact a crater on the moon, but in my mind, I envisaged a tiny body of water that had been entirely created by the gradual collection of precious drops of dew as they formulated in the early morning hours."The Evergreen Club is an ensemble of eight musicians who perform on a collection of bronze, wood, bamboo and stringed instruments. Together these instruments are known as a gamelan, which has been an important part of Indonesian musical life for centuries.The Last Lp
Unique Last Recordings Of The Music Of Ancient Cultures
In 1987, Snow issued The Last LP (Art Metropole), which purported to be a documentary disc of the dying gasps of ethnic musical cultures from around the globe including Tibet, Syria, India, China Brazil, Finland and elsewhere.Alan Stellings and Greg Paskaruk formed impromp2 cello and piano duo to explore ways of bringing together their many musical interests and influences.The six works on this recording by Diana McIntosh represent a sampler of the colourful variety of her musical composition and the versatility of her performance style.Go to Top