Lush chamber music featuring jazz guests Mike Murley, Brian Barlow and Guido Basso. Arrangements and original music from Bach, to Chaplin, Gershwin and Piazzolla. Celebrating a 30 year collaboration with Order of Canada holding musical giant Rick Wilkins. Released by Opening Day Entertainment Group, 2018.
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Mysterium, Music from the Labyrinth, is the first CD compilation of music by John Burke dedicated to the labyrinth process. Exquisitely performed by Ensemble Vivant, it begins and ends with Mysterium, the work upon which the entire labyrinth repertoire is based, and a work that is indelibly associated with the artistry of these fine performers. The centrepiece of the recording is Hieratikos for piano trio, a continuous 55-minute arc that guides the listener through the classic rite of passage in its three phases: separation, transition and reincorporation. This is unique in classical music in that it is intended to be used as a support for dynamic walking meditation, as distinct from the usual concert or dance roles. It may well be unique in that the recording is intended to be loaded onto portable devices and used to accompany physical journeys of one's own devising. For more information about Labyrinth Music please visit: http://earsay.com/labyrinthmusic/index.html
This is a recording of rarely heard music for two cellos by the great French cello masters of the romantic era. The focus of the album is the music of Auguste Franchomme who was a close friend of Chopin.The 12 caprices and etudes (many recorded for the first time) presented here are in feeling and texture reminiscent in style to the great Polish composer. Four works by Baudiot, Duport, and Servais complete this unusual recording. Released by ERDECO Recordings, 2014.
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Ensemble Vivant’s Latin Romance shimmers with a colourful tapestry of compelling works by Brazilian composers including Egberto Gismonti’s sparkling Loro and his hauntingly beautiful Memoria Y Fado; two popular infectious Brazilian Tangos by Ernesto Nazareth (known as the Scott Joplin of Brazil), Odeon and Garôto; Mozart Carmargo Guarnieri’s deeply alluring Dansa Negra and Antônio Carlos Jobim’s impassioned Zingaro; Argentinean Astor Piazzolla’s riveting Cité Tango and his transcendent OBLIVION; Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona’s joyous Andalucia (Spain’s southern sunny region); Four Latin inspired works include Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz’s famous Tango in D; Canadian composer John Burke wrote his passionate Art Tango, La Despedida as a present for Ensemble Vivant’s pianist Catherine Wilson; Canadian composer Phil Dwyer’s evocative Bernardo’s Tango and American composer Leroy Anderson’s most inspired Latin composition, Serenata, complete this highly original and gorgeous program.
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Ensemble Vivant’s iFUGUE ~ A World of Fugues album pays homage to Johann Sebastian Bach. It features masterful fugues from around the world by Astor Piazzolla (Argentina); Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil); Aldemaro Romero (Venezuela); John Burke and Michael Coghlan (Canada); Dmitri Shostakovich (Russia); Antonio Vivaldi (Italy); César Franck (France); and of course, the King of the Fugue himself, Johann Sebastian Bach (Germany).