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Kevin Lau: Under a Veil of Stars
Kevin Lau
Rachel Mercer, cello;
Scott St. John, violin;
Angela Park, piano
Leaf Music LM273; release date Sept. 15, 2023
Kevin Lau: Under A Veil of Stars invites you to explore the spectrum of human emotions and experiences. Across nine captivating tracks, each brimming with its own distinct mood and theme, Kevin Lau’s composition invites you to interpret their profound meaning through the prism of your own unique perspective. This album was recorded in a studio at Western University in London, Ont., in 2023.
Chinatown
Alice Ping Yee Ho, composer;
Madeleine Thien, librettist
Performers: Spencer Britten, Vania Chan, Erica Iris Huang, Derek Kwan, Matthew Li, Emma Parkinson, Albertina Chan, Richard Epp, Mark Ferris, Martin Fisk, Dai Lin Hsieh, Peter Ing, Jonathan Lo, Emma Ringrose, Jun Rong, Rebecca Wenham, Mary Chun
Leaf Music LM281; release date Sept. 8, 2023
Alice Ho, Madeleine Thien, and Paul Yee (who recreated portions of the libretto in Hoisan dialect) take you on a journey through Chinatown. Presented in two acts, the opera brings together decades of lived experience from thousands of Chinese immigrants in an intimate, emotional and dramatic soundscape. Ho’s writing combines elements of instruments from Southern China and traditional western orchestral music. Chinatown was recorded at the Kay Meek Arts Centre in West Vancouver in collaboration with City Opera Vancouver in 2023.
Schubert: Late Piano Works
Christine Vanderkooy, piano
Self-published, CV2023; release date Sept. 1, 2023
Christine Vanderkooy invites us to pay tribute to Franz Schubert who completed some of his most sophisticated, poetic, and deeply felt works for the piano, composing feverishly in the months before illness ended his life. Schubert: Late Piano Works was recorded at Glenn Gould Studio, at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre (CBC Toronto Broadcast Centre) and on “Bertha,” the nine-foot New York Steinway, during Toronto’s pandemic lockdown in December 2020.
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