WCMA Classical Nominees

from "The Return of the Lonesome Coyote Patchwork Pulpit, and Sundry Other Tales from the Rainbow's End"

A Deeper Shade Of Blue

As performed by Dr. Marnie Giesbrecht and Joachim Segger for Arktos Recordings Limited. This audio has graciously been shared by the Arktos Recordings group for the University of Alberta's Department of Music. 

Credits: John Mahon (executive producer) and Garth Hobden (recording engineer).

Music For Organ And Piano - Meccanico Eccentrico, Quasi Una Fantasia - Howard Bashaw, composer

This mournful track features 8dio's Studio Sopranos vocal sample library, Adagio Strings and  1928 Steinway Piano.  All samples used in this track are by 8dio.

"All That We Leave Behind" from the album "Along The King's Road"

Sonate, I, by Edison DENISOV, performed by Roger Admiral, piano and William Street, saxophone

This is the fourth movement of GYPSY CHRONICLES, as performed by the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra conducted by the composer in 2010. A new performance of a slightly revised version is scheduled for Feb. 27, 2016 at the Orpheum Annex Theatre, Vancouver, BC Canada.

Gypsy Chronicles 4 Retour aux sources

Hi All, I've been returning to my roots recently, writing a series of tracks that serve as the soundtrack to an imagined archetypal Role-Playing Game (RPG) for computers or consoles.  This movement of the piece broadly follows a narrative in which the player's avatar (the Hero) in the game enters a shrouded fog-where shadows take corporeal form.  After encountering the shadows and attempting to relay a message, they attack and the hero battles them to a stalemate. As they tend their wounds, a dialog between the wary hero and the misunderstood shadows ensues.

All instrumentation used in this piece was created by Orchestral Tools, one of my favourite sample library studios and publishers.  I particularly enjoyed using their solo string "First Chairs" library for the string sounds, and the brass and choir from the Metropolis Ark 1 epic orchestral library that OT released recently.

Comments and feedback are welcome :)

WCMA Classical Nominees

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