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Rethink Forever
Vocal Music of Peter Hannan
Canadian composer Peter Hannan joins forces with three venerated Vancouver vocal entities, slathers them with weird electronic effects, and, in the process, pops open a strikingly odd treasure chest of pure sonic pleasure.Louise Bessette, piano and Martine Desroches, violin. Works by Jacques Hétu, André Prévost and Rodney Sharman.Prevost/Menuhin
une aventure créatrice
André Prévost is one of Canada's most prolific composers and his works have gained international recognition. During the last 35 years he has produced over sixty major works, mainly for orchestra, soloist with orchestra, choir, as well as for various chamber music combinations.This recording is a souvenir of Guitar Québec '94, an international Guitar and Lute Festival held at Laval University in Quebec City, July 10-16, 1994.SMCQ
Gougeon, Rea, Varèse, Longtin
Denis Gougeon, Michel Longtin, John Rea, Edgard VarèseLa Musique De Serge Garant
The Music Of Serge Garant
Four CD set of The Music Of Serge GarantThe three pieces we have chosen for this recording all tell mythic tales. The poet, the lover, and the musician take us on a voyage through madness, darkness, joy beauty and ecstasy.Big Pictures is a theatrical work by composer Michael J. Baker, painter Dan Solomon and choreographer Bill James.Huskless!, captures Lori Freedman in some of her most recent sizzling live concert performances. The music runs an eclectic gamut of styles reflecting her dynamic stage presentations."Peter Hannan’s cosmic tune about the evolution of memory and the birth of stars emerges from squelchy electronic beats and a lachrymose harmonic loop of Baroque provenance. Singer Christine Duncan completes the illusion of intimate thoughts filling a vast space." -R. Everett Green Globe and MailThe music for this collection, Ten Planets, represents a personally chosen repertoire distilled from many years of commissioning and performance, to capture meticulously prepared premiere recordings of works that cover the broad range of dynamics, colour and sheer kick-ass' drumming that define the medium of solo percussion.Eve Egoyan, specializing in the works of living composers, releases her first CD the things in between. The selections, all world premiere recordings, range from minimalist to experimental, from the lushly complex and abstract to compositions which recall a more standard classical repertoire.Array Live brings together five internationally recognized composers in a CD recorded live at the Gelnn Gould Hall in Toronto.In Paradisum, has a darker opening and is rough like a pre-Columbian dance, gliding soon into the serious game of transformations that eventually sidesteps the auditioning mind and imprints itself on the body.Toronto’s Evergreen Club has the distinction of being Canada’s first group playing music on an Indonesian gamelan (orchestra).Memory Forms is a succession of orchestral images – chords, fragments of melody, odd scales, occasional solo lines – which appear, recede and reappear in continuously changing forms. Just as memory gives shape to life, so it forms, and informs, the experience of music.Road to Ubud, from The Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, features world premiere recordings by renowned composers John Cage, Gilles Tremblay and James Tenney.Celestial Machine was the first recording entirely devoted to the music of Vancouver, Canada, composer Owen Underhill. This CD collects works of varied instrumentation completed between 1984 and 1999.The Evergreen Club's first recording of popular Indonesian music is both a plateau and a paradox.Toronto Duets is a diverse collection of comprovisations (composition/improvisation) featuring computer musician Eugene Martynec and some of Toronto's foremost improvising composers /musicians.Live Fingers is the second release of the 40 fingers saxophone quartet, a group of Toronto composers and performers who came together in 1993.For There and Then combines world music with contemporary classical music. Expressing a wide range of virtuosity in blending plucked strings from around the world with Indonesian gamelan instruments.Arraymusic’s mission is to ignite and sustain a passion for contemporary Canadian musical art within an international, interdisciplinary context.Go to Top