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Canada's Living Music
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| The Book of Mirrors - includes a full-length CD of music by Tobin Stokes, Gary Kulesha (whose piece, 'Book of Mirrors', is a Juno 2000 nominee in the category of "Best Classical Composition"), Omar Daniel, and also an interactive CD-ROM (Mac & PC compatible).
This allows you to explore the intricacies of the compositions through interacting with their components, watch a live performance, and hear the composer's talk about their music - an exciting and gorgeously designed package that is a unique development for the world of contemporary Canadian concert music. |
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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. For this album, Eve has selected works by Michael Finnisey, Michael Longton, Alvin Curran, Linda C. Smith and Stephen Parkinson.
"Record of the Week...a fine debut disc...a thoughtfully sensuous performance." - Robert Everett-Green, The Globe and Mail, Oct.'99 |
| Elmer Iseler Conducts Canadian Music pays tribute to one of Canada's foremost late choral conductors. As Ken Winters says in his introduction to this CD: "The work Iseler achieved with his three main choirs...will shine on in memory and through their numerous recordings for many generations to come. Indeed, Iseler's work already represents at the highest level a choral history of music-making in Canada from the 1950s to the turn of the century." The album features compositions by R. Murray Schafer, Oskar Morawetz, Harry Freedman, Clifford Ford and André Prévost. |
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On this Centrediscs recording, Spirit Song, Canadian composer Harry Freedman presents the listener with a retrospective of his vocal works written over a forty-year period between 1953 and 1993. Ranging from the haunting vocalise for soprano with lute in Bright Angels to the moving tribute Epitaph for Igor Stravinsky for tenor and string quartet, Freedman provides vocal music lovers with a solid collection of his best works in the genre.
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| Beauty Enthralled includes five very different, very personal interpretations of Indian music traditions, gestures, practices and usages, as performed by Parmela Attariwala on violin and viola, along with guest performers Ravi Naimpally, tabla and singer/composer Kiran Ahluwalia. Composers featured are Robert Rosen, Violeta Dinescu, Rick Bidlack, Harry Somers and Kiran Ahluwalia "This exquisite recording beautifully combines contemporary Western compositional techniques and instruments with traditional Indian instrumentations and compositional influences." - Erin Donovan, Musicworks |
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The recording A Bridge Beyond features the guitar at its most traditional and its most experimental. One of Canada's most sensitive and skillful interpreters of contemporary music, William Beauvais, has chosen a range of Canadian repertoire for solo guitar, guitar duets where he is joined by fellow guitarist Stephen Wingfield, and guitar with tape. Besides a work by Wingfield himself, Beauvais performs music by Marjan Mozetich, Jon Siddall, Henry Kucharzyk, Wes Wraggett and Rudolf Komorous.
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| After fifteen years of pushing the envelope show-casing and commissioning chamber works by young Canadian composers, Continuum contemporary music has launched its first CD, entitled Continuum 1. The Chalmers Award-winning group is renowned for its innovative, broad spectrum programming in concert, and this long awaited disc is refreshingly well recorded evoking the magical live concert experience for which Continuum is known. Featured composers include Jocelyn Morlock, Wendy Prezament, Ronald Bruce Smith, Micheline Roi and Chris Paul Harman. |
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Entitled simply Vickers, these historic recordings of the great Canadian tenor, Jon Vickers, were made at the end of his career in the late 1980s. With the exception of Glick's Two Landscapes, all of the repertoire was recorded at Vickers' country home, Spruce Winds, in Southern Ontario.
Given that Vickers' career was most notable for his dynamic opera roles and performances, it is perhaps a cherished rarity and valuable asset to both Vickers fans and our country's musical heritage to have this recorded recital of art songs by some of Canada's foremost composers. |
| For The View from Here, pianist Barbara Pritchard has selected a program of works imbued with the musical spirit of American composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987). The Canadian composers here represented are of subsequent generations to Feldman and bear relation to him in varied ways, from having studied with him to simply being familiar with his music. These pieces also share a characteristic feature of Feldman's piano music: they are deceptively simple, their slow, quiet qualities requiring of the pianist an acute concentration, plus a refined discipline that is focused not on pyrotechnic virtuosity but on highly sensitized restraint - often as though the keyboard were caressed rather than percussed. |
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Made up of 16 long term musical associates that collectively represent over 10 JUNO Awards for recording excellence, the Vancouver Ensemble of Jazz Improvisation (better known as VEJI) is enjoying their 20th year together, and their intense jazz blend of brass, sax, percussion and vocals in "V" elevates Hugh Fraser's award winning compositions to a state of aural technicolour!
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