Shattered Night, Shivering Stars: Music of Alexina Louie (1999)

This commentator was shocked to hear (in the fall of 2000) Canadian actor Mike Meyers tell David Letterman that Canada was a land "with no classical music of its own." With outstanding discs like this one, CBC Records proves on a monthly basis the falsity of such statements.Louie, a Vancouver native, is an outstandingly talented, technically polished, imaginative and distinctive composer, who (like many of her Canadian colleagues) seems to have an attraction to musical environments of vastness with an underlying gentleness ... Read More

This commentator was shocked to hear (in the fall of 2000) Canadian actor Mike Meyers tell David Letterman that Canada was a land "with no classical music of its own." With outstanding discs like this one, CBC Records proves on a monthly basis the falsity of such statements.Louie, a Vancouver native, is an outstandingly talented, technically polished, imaginative and distinctive composer, who (like many of her Canadian colleagues) seems to have an attraction to musical environments of vastness with an underlying gentleness.Each of the five works presented here is for a different performing force. All the performances are wholly convincing and the sound by producer Randall Barnard and engineer Anton Kwaitkowski is always attractive, if studio-like.Obsessions (Their Own Words) is a fifteen-minute solo cantata for baritone & orchestra, on words from letters of Monet and Van Gogh, written for a museum opening and performed well by Russell Braun, with Mario Bernardi and the National Arts Centre Orchestra.... Read Less

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