<p class="p1"><span class="s1">O Mistress Moon is a collection of two centuries of Nocturnes and night inspired music from composers Chopin, Britten, Satie, Debussy, Barber, Poulenc, Schumann, Scriabin, Respighi, and Juno award winning composer Derek Charke. The music promises to transport you to the moon and back on a peaceful, thought-provoking journey.</span></p>

  <code><iframe src="https://leaf-music.lnk.to/khQHkWE/widget?size=300x300" width="300" height="300" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></code> Ex Tempore is the debut album from the Nova Scotia-based Charke-Cormier duo. Derek Charke and Eugene Cormier have curated a charming program that includes an original composition by Charke (Ex Tempore), and arrangements of Handel and Peter Maxwell Davies by Cormier paired with works by Debussy, Handel and Brazilian-Canadian composer Celso Machado. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcZxZOsd1Ek  

  OH Canada: A Young 150!, is the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra’s (NBYO) celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday. The NBYO’s celebration pays tribute to Confederation and the accomplishments of a great history, but also to a future to be built from all the genius, optimism and hope of our youth. The centrepiece of the celebration is a song commissioned by
the NBYO, for orchestra, soloist and choir, by Canadian composer Howard Shore, winner of three Academy Awards, three Golden Globes and four Grammy Awards, and one of the most celebrated composers in the world. The song ‘Sea to Sea’ is performed by
the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra with internationally renowned soprano Measha Brueggergosman and a special Canada 150 Choir. Oh Canada : jeune de 150 ans est la célébration du 150e anniversaire du Canada de l’Orchestre des jeunes du Nouveau‐Brunswick
(OJNB). Cette célébration rend hommage à la Confédération et aux réalisations d’une merveilleuse histoire, ainsi qu’à un avenir qui sera façonné par l’ingéniosité, l’optimisme et l’espoir de nos jeunes. La pièce maîtresse de la célébration est une chanson commandée par l’OJNB pour orchestre, soliste et chorale. Elle a été composée par le Canadien Howard Shore, lauréat de trois Academy Awards, trois Golden Globes et quatre prix Grammy, et l’un des compositeurs les plus célébrés au monde. La pièce « D’un océan à l’autre » est présentée par l’Orchestre des jeunes du Nouveau‐Brunswick, Measha Brueggergosman, soprano de renommée internationale, ainsi qu’une chorale spéciale en l’honneur du 150e du Canada. <iframe src="https://www.deezer.com/plugins/player?format=classic&autoplay=false&playlist=true&width=700&height=350&color=82BE3C&layout=&size=medium&type=album&id=52320982&app_id=1" width="700" height="185" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

  Described as “genre-bending” by the National Post, and “intrepid” by the Globe and Mail, Mark Fewer has performed around the world to critical acclaim in virtually every role asked of a violinist, from the early baroque to the avant-garde. As one of today’s busiest musicians in the field of Early Music, Hank Knox is hailed internationally for his “colorful, kinetic performances” (AllMusic Guide) which “abound in vitality” (Early Music America). <iframe src="https://www.deezer.com/plugins/player?format=classic&autoplay=false&playlist=true&width=700&height=350&color=82BE3C&layout=&size=medium&type=album&id=46469972&app_id=1" width="700" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

  ROBERT deMAINE is an American virtuoso cellist who has been hailed by The New York Times as "an artist who makes one hang on every note”. He has distinguished himself as one of the finest and most versatile instrumentalists of his generation, performing to critical acclaim as soloist, recitalist, orchestral principal, recording artist, and chamber musician. In 2012 he was invited to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Cello. DeMaine is the cellist of the highly acclaimed Ehnes String Quartet as well as the newly formed Dicterow-deMaine-Biegel Trio. A first-prize winner in many national and international competitions, deMaine was the first cellist ever to win the grand prize at San Francisco’s Irving M. Klein International Competition for Strings. As soloist, he has collaborated with many distinguished conductors, including Neeme Järvi, Peter Oundjian, Joseph Silverstein, and Leonard Slatkin, and has performed nearly all the major cello concertos with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he served as principal cello for over a decade. DeMaine has also served as a guest principal cello of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, and the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway. ROBERT deMAINE is an American virtuoso cellist who has been hailed by The New York Times as "an artist who makes one hang on every note”. He has distinguished himself as one of the finest and most versatile instrumentalists of his generation, performing to critical acclaim as soloist, recitalist, orchestral principal, recording artist, and chamber musician. In 2012 he was invited to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Cello. DeMaine is the cellist of the highly acclaimed Ehnes String Quartet as well as the newly formed Dicterow-deMaine-Biegel Trio. A first-prize winner in many national and international competitions, deMaine was the first cellist ever to win the grand prize at San Francisco’s Irving M. Klein International Competition for Strings. As soloist, he has collaborated with many distinguished conductors, including Neeme Järvi, Peter Oundjian, Joseph Silverstein, and Leonard Slatkin, and has performed nearly all the major cello concertos with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he served as principal cello for over a decade. DeMaine has also served as a guest principal cello of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, and the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway. <iframe src="https://www.deezer.com/plugins/player?format=classic&autoplay=false&playlist=true&width=700&height=350&color=82BE3C&layout=&size=medium&type=album&id=42655831&app_id=1" width="700" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

  <div class="mceTemp"></div> The debut album of soprano Maureen Batt features a rare recording of Schubert’s “Op. 52 Lady of the Lake” song cycle and a newly commissioned work on the same epic Walter Scott poem by Nova Scotia’s Fiona Ryan. <iframe src="https://www.deezer.com/plugins/player?format=classic&autoplay=false&playlist=true&width=700&height=350&color=82BE3C&layout=&size=medium&type=album&id=42476811&app_id=1" width="700" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> https://youtu.be/H5XTmyuV6d4

  Danor Quinteros studied at Zürich School of Arts (Prof. Homero Francesch) and at Hochschule für Musik Köln (Prof. Jacob Leuschner). He has given recitals throughout his native Chile as well as in Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Spain. He also participated in numerous Masterclasses around the world with Jaques Rouvier, Jun Kanno, Robert Mcdonald, and Andrea Lucchesini. He has won prizes at the Ile de France International Competition, chilean national piano competitions and the International Claudio Arrau Competition. <iframe src="https://www.deezer.com/plugins/player?format=classic&autoplay=false&playlist=true&width=700&height=350&color=82BE3C&layout=&size=medium&type=album&id=15828702&app_id=1" width="700" height="230" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

  Winners of the Grand Prize and Audience Prize at the 2014 Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition, Montreal based Infusion Baroque has recorded a much-anticipated debut CD featuring trio sonatas by CPE Bach. Their performances have been described as “dynamic and alive” with a stage presence that is “poised and elegant.” <iframe src="https://www.deezer.com/plugins/player?format=classic&autoplay=false&playlist=true&width=700&height=350&color=82BE3C&layout=&size=medium&type=album&id=15105881&app_id=1" width="700" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

  Well before the Nationalist schools of the nineteenth century, Celtic music in general, and Scots tunes in particular, enjoyed a period of great popularity throughout Great Britain. Composers trained in the Italian art music of the time borrowed traditional Celtic melodies and used them to create musical hybrids which owed as much to the ornamental stylings of Corelli as to the fiddle and lute traditions of Scotland. Strangely, the actual Celtic composers, arrangers and publishers of the period, many of whom synthesized the traditional idioms of their native culture with real flair and affection, are often overlooked in explorations of what was dubbed the “Scots drawing room style” by the eighteenth-century music publisher James Johnson. The goal of this recording is to bring attention to these over-looked composers. The programme includes works by James Oswald, General John Reid, Edward Jones, William McGibbon, Turlough O’Carolan, and excerpts from the Rowallan and Straloch lute books. <iframe src="https://www.deezer.com/plugins/player?format=classic&autoplay=false&playlist=true&width=700&height=350&color=82BE3C&layout=&size=medium&type=album&id=14857653&app_id=1" width="700" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

  After many years of performing as a concert pianist, working as the artistic director for the Barachois Summer Music Series and collaborating on a variety of critically acclaimed musical projects across Canada, Julien Leblanc has released his first solo album, a piano recording entitled Mélancolies. The album is a compilation of French compositions that became a staple of Leblanc’s repertoire after he discovered them early on in his career. The composers included in this recorded collection — Franck, Poulenc and Dutilleux — all hail from France and their combined output stretches from the mid-nineteenth century to Dutilleux’s last work which was published in 2009 when he was ninety-three. Francis Poulenc was a less avant-garde contemporary of Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau and so, his work is accessible but inventive and fresh. Poulenc’s “Fifteen Improvisations” are known for their charming and buoyant character as well as for the technical artistry of the composer’s pedalling. Henri Dutilleux’s work was more heavily influenced by his environmental context when he was composing music just after World War Two. The included piece by Dutilleux, “Sonata for piano”, denotes the turbulence, anguish and anxiety that pervaded during that period through his use of contrast — he juxtaposes rhythmic and jagged sections with sensual, dreamlike and ethereal parts. Composing fifty years before Dutilleux and Poulenc, César Franck‘s “Prélude, choral et fugue” is religious and takes a cyclic form. In its closing coda, Franck masterfully superimposes the previous sections of his composition. The character of the work is philosophical and contemplative yet at the same time passionate and fervid. Julien Leblanc connects these differing French compositions through his acute sensibilities and expressive piano playing. He fuses the works together with a consistent expression of melancholy which he identifies in each work. Leblanc writes of this feeling in the notes of his album when he says ”A sense of melancholy pervades the pieces presented in this recording and I am especially attached to them. Be it dreamlike or loving, resigned or fatalistic, or caused by the absence of a loved one, this feeling of melancholy runs through these four pieces. As a shadow in the light, it contrasts with expressions of joy and happiness, intensifying them in the process. I present this recording to you humbly and with all my heart.” <iframe src="https://www.deezer.com/plugins/player?format=classic&autoplay=false&playlist=true&width=700&height=350&color=82BE3C&layout=&size=medium&type=album&id=15821572&app_id=1" width="700" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>