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Alan Klaus – First Light

Frédéric Cardin — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 23:34:36 +0000

Albums of new music for classical trumpet are not legion, let alone those of Canadian music! The one presented here is mostly seductive and dressed in consonant harmonic clothes. We would be on a soundtrack of a documentary about the natural beauties of Canada, which we would not be surprised by. Klaus indeed infuses a […]

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Omar Daniel – Game of Couples

Frédéric Cardin — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:12:12 +0000

This is the first time I have come across the music of Canadian composer Omar Daniel, born in 1960, with this album titled after the excellent suite for two violins Giuoco delle coppie (Game of Couples). I am impressed. In this, Daniel demonstrates a great mastery of polyphonic writing for contemporary violins. He creates intriguing […]

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Quatuor Nelligan – Rupture

Frédéric Cardin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:05:50 +0000

It’s been a while since the Nelligan saxophone quartet offered us an album: Consonances modernes in 2013. It was their second, following L’Art de la fugue… from 1995! Rupture is their third opus in 30 years. That said, it’s quality. On the program, four pieces by just as many Canadian composers, disparate in style, but […]

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Mélanie Harel – Envols

Frédéric Cardin — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:19:15 +0000

A complete album of original works for English horn is a rare thing, but an album of Canadian works for English horn is almost a miracle. The musical quality of the pieces on the program, and above all the beauty and finesse of the playing of Mélanie Harel, also soloist with Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, are […]

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Afarin Mansouri – Dancing With Love

Frédéric Cardin — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:45:56 +0000

Dancing With Love could just as easily be called Twelve Shades of Love, as each of the tracks on the album is an illustration of a typical love: unrequited love, perfect love, earthly love, spiritual and transcendent love, and so on. The musical style varies from one piece to the next, although there are common […]

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Monica Pearce – Textile Fantasies

Frédéric Cardin — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:59:28 +0000

With Textile Fantasies, Canadian composer Monica Pearce engages in an unusual exercise in artistic synesthesia. While we have more often heard of synesthesia (a neurological phenomenon in which two or more senses are associated) between music and color, this is the first time I have been offered a link between musical sounds and tactile textures. […]

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Ensemble Paramirabo / Music of François Tousignant

Frédéric Cardin — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:33:41 +0000

François Tousignant is best remembered as music critic for Le Devoir from 1994 to 2005. But we forget that he was above all a composer, and that between 1973 and 1993, and again in 2006, he wrote some forty works that deserve our full attention. You will have noticed that the years of his creative […]

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Alexina Louie: Take the Dog Sled

Réjean Beaucage — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 17:24:37 +0000

We’ve already seen many experiments blending contemporary music and Inuit culture. From Titakti, by the French electroacoustician Philippe Le Goff (empreintes DIGITALes, 1995), to the extraordinary ballet music of Christos Hatzis (Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation) with the participation of Tanya Tagaq (album also released by Centredisques in 2015), through Michael Reinhart’s bionic […]

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Bookburners

Michel Rondeau — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:20:24 +0000

The winner of the Opus Composer of the Year Award in 2019 may be prolific, but the music lover who doesn’t have the chance to hear her music in concert has only a handful of records to choose from. And even then, these are most often with pieces by other composers. But not on this […]

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Going Home Star/L’Étoile du retour

Réjean Beaucage — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:20:07 +0000

Canadian composer Christos Hatzis offers a dense work, performed by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, abetted by pre-recorded sounds, elements of turntablism and the collaboration of singer Tanya Tagaq. With a nod to Steve Reich’s Different Trains and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, and Inuit throat-singing as a backdrop, Hatzis builds a dense score that can be […]

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