French Reflections, vol. VII: Renascence (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 4-11- Quatuor pour la fin du temps by Olivier Messaien Recording details: Crumb’s cataclysmic Black Angels, a passionate anti-war statement, balances Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time), a devoutly spiritual work composed in a prisoner of war camp. Two imaginative […]
French Reflections, vol. VI: Vocal Exchange (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 2,3,4,5- Selected Preludes for Clarinet and Piano by Aleksandr Scriabin; 13. Première rhapsodie pour clarinette et piano by Claude Debussy Recording details: Vocal Exchange juxtaposes treasured songs from three cultures. Russian-American soprano Erika Baikoff offers her unsurpassed vocal skill and bewitching personality in songs by Lizst, […]
French Reflections, vol. IV: Trios and Trumpets (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 1,2,3- Trio in E-flat major for Piano, Clarinet, and Viola, K. 498, Kegelstatt by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; 4,5,6,7- La revue de cuisine by Bohuslav Martinů Recording details: Trios and Trumpets gathers music from Austria, Hungary, and France. The piano trio is represented by Mozart and Chaminade, and […]
French Reflections, vol. III: Quartets and Harps (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 4,5,6- Octet for Two Clarinets, Harp, String Quartet, and Bass by Charles Martin Loeffler Recording details: When speaking of favorite quartets, no one would leave out the famous Adagio from Barber’s 1936 quartet, performed in this volume by rising classical stars, the Viano String Quartet. Loeffler’s recently-discovered […]
My Soul Upon My Lips
Composer: Jeffrey Ryan Featured UBC faculty performers: Adjunct Professor of Oboe Beth Orson, saxophonist and sessional lecturer Dr. Julia Nolan, and Professor of Piano Dr. Corey Hamm Featured tracks: Beth Orson (oboe & English horn) in Quince Corey Hamm (piano) in Arbutus Julia Nolan (alto saxophone) in Luminous Blue Recording details: Redshift Records, released October […]
A Quinary
Ensemble: Vancouver Island Symphony Featured UBC composers: Dorothy Chang, Stephen Chatman, Jocelyn Morlock, Edward Top Featured UBC artist: Paolo Bortolussi Recording details: Redshift Records, released March 14, 2020 Link
Music for Woodwind Choirs
Composer: Christopher Tyler Nickel (BMus’01) Featured UBC artists: Roger Cole (oboe), Beth Orson (oboe), Christie Reside (flute), Paolo Bortolussi (flute) Recording details: Centrediscs, Nov 15, 2019 Link
Lutalica
Subtitle: Solo Flute Music from the Pacific Rim Artist: Mark Takeshi McGregor flute Producer: Mark Takeshi McGregor Recording Engineer: Don Harder Digital Editing & Mastering: Don Harder Recording details: Redshift Records, April 2019 Featured compositions: Nova Pon Wrenegade Link Lutalica by Mark Takeshi McGregor
Apogee
Composer: Farshid Samandari (MMus’07, DMA’14) UBC Music Performers: Mark Takeshi McGregor flute, Joy Yeh harp Recording details: Redshift Records, June 15, 2018 Link iTunes | Spotify
Saxophilia
Ensemble: Saxophilia Performers: Colin MacDonald baritone saxophone, Julia Nolan soprano saxophone, David Branter tenor saxophone, Kris Covlin alto saxophone Featured composition: Obsess by Dorothy Chang Recording details: Redshift Records, 2017 Link Saxophilia by Saxophilia