Bataclan!

Tango for bandoneon, harpsichord and bassoon

ACD2 2581 Mathieu Lussier, bassoon, Catherine Perrin, harpsichord, Denis Plante, bandoneon ? There are many tango albums in the world, but it seems safe to say that there very few featuring harpsichord and bassoon along with the more-traditional bandoneon. ? Mathieu Lussier is one of the busiest bassoonists in North America who specialize in early music. He performs with such groups as Arion, Les Violons du Roy, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, and Apollo?s Fire. Last month he released his second ATMA disc devoted to the music of Devienne; he appears on numerous other ATMA discs. ? Catherine Perrin Catherine Perrin leads a highly active dual career as harpsichordist and broadcaster: she is host of On fait tous du show business on Radio-Canada TV, and has recorded 3 previous ATMA discs on harpsichord. ? Denis Plante is one Canada?s leading exponents of bandoneon, and the arranger of the much of music on this disc.

The Garden of Peacocks

Music for two harps

ACD2 2539 Jennifer Swartz, Lori Gemmell, harps ? Music for two harps, by Respighi, Andrés, Creeggan, Clapton? Eric Clapton? Andy Creeggan? (founding keyboard player of Barenaked Ladies?) ? Jennifer Swartz is principal harp of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal; Lori Gemmell is principal with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra. Jennifer and Lori first played together in 1999 with the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, in Paris, no less, but their story starts years before. They both studied with Judy Loman and have been friends since they were teenagers. Each maintains a full schedule as soloist and chamber musician; Swartz teaches at McGill University in Montreal, Gemmell at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. ? Lori and Jennifer are thrilled to be stretching the harp duo repertoire by commissioning new pieces like Going West, by Andy Creeggan, and to be loosening the boundaries between classical and pop music with arrangements like Eric Clapton?s Signe, by Kevin Fox.

Jehan Titelouze

Hymnes de l?Église pour toucher sur l?orgue, avec les fugues et recherches sur leur plain-chant

ACD2 2558 Yves-G. Préfontaine, 1699 Tribuot organ ? Les Chantres du Roy ? Jehan Titelouze is remembered ? if at all ? as kind Australopithecus of the organ, but when a Paris publisher issued this collection of 39 pieces almost 400 years ago, it the first French book devoted to the keyboard works of a single composer, giving Titelouze a claim to being the foundation of the French organ tradition. ? Titelouze explores twelve of the most popular hymn tunes of the day in these ?fugues and ricercars?, extending the language of 16th century polyphony and, by his use of dissonances, seventh chords, and chromaticism, hinting of new paths music would take. ? Recorded on the 1699 Tribuot organ at the church of St Martin in Seurre, France.

ATMA RELEASES ? FEB.

24 2009

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