Edmonton Symphony Orchestra - Commercial Discography and Videography

Commercial Discography and Videography

Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

(Procol Harum, Da Camera Singers, Lawrence Leonard conductor, 1972)

Conquistador / Whaling Stories / A Salty Dog / All This and More / In Held 'Twas In I / Luskus Delph

Music by Haydn, Debussy, Wirén

(Boris Brott 1 and John Avison 2 conductors, 1973)

Haydn Symphony No. 99 1 / Debussy Petit suite: En bateau 2 / Wirén March 2

McKuen The Ballad Of Distances: Symphonic Suite, Opus 40

(Tommy Banks conductor, 1973)

Scarlet and Gold / L'Escarlet et L'Or - Alberta R.C.M.P. Century Celebrations, 1874-1974

(Tommy Banks conductor, 1974)

Dere Overture / Rebellion / Tribute to the R.C.M.P.

Music by Wolf, Purcell, Adaskin, Warlock

(Pierre Hétu conductor, 1975)

Wolf Italian Serenade / Purcell The Married Beau Suite (Arr. Holst) / Adaskin Diversion for orchestra (an entertainment) / Warlock Six Italian Dances

Music by Ibert, Françaix, Rameau

(Pierre Hétu conductor, 1976)

Ibert Suite symphonique: "Paris" / Françaix Sérénade / Rameau Les fêtes d'Hébé

Orchestral Suites of the British Isles

(Uri Mayer conductor, 1983)

Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite / Warlock Capriol Suite / Harty A John Field Suite

Great Tenor Arias

(Ermanno Mauro tenor, Uri Mayer conductor, 1984)

Bizet "La fleur que tu m’avais jetée" (Carmen) / Massenet "O Souverain, ô juge, ô père!" (Le Cid) / Puccini "Che gelida manina" (La bohème) / Leoncavallo "Recitar!...Vesti la giubba" (Pagliacci) / Verdi "Niun mi tema" (Otello) / Gounod "Ah! lêve-toi, soleil" (Roméo et Juliette) / Massenet "Pourquoi me réveiller?" (Werther) / Puccini "E lucevan le stelle" (Tosca) / Puccini "Nessun dorma" (Turandot) / Giordano "Un dì all'azzuro spazio", also known as "L'improvviso" (Andrea Chénier) / Verdi "Ma se m'è forza perderti" (Un ballo in maschera) / Verdi "Ah si, ben mio...Di quella pira" (Il trovatore)

Great Verdi Arias

(Louis Quilico baritone, Uri Mayer conductor, 1984)

"E sogno o realtà?" (Falstaff) / "Morir! tremenda cosa...Urna fatale de mio destino" (La forza del destino) / "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata" (Rigoletto) / "Vanne! la tua meta già vedo...Credo in un Dio crude!" Otello) / "Perfidi!...Pietà, rispetto, amore" (Macbeth) / "Tutto è deserto...Il Balen del suo soriso" (Il trovatore) / "Di Provenza il mar, il suol" (La traviata) / "Alzati! là tuo figlio...Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima" (Un ballo in maschera)

Music by Forsyth and Freedman

(Uri Mayer conductor, 1985)

Freedman Oiseaux exotiques / Forsyth Atayoskewin (Juno Award: Best Classical Composition)

Canadian and Russian Overtures

(Uri Mayer conductor, 1986)

Forsyth Jubilee Overture / Ridout Fall Fair / Morawetz Overture to a Fairy Tale / Shostakovich Festive Overture, Opus 96 / Borodin Prince Igor: Overture / Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon: Overture / Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture

Fiala The Kurelek Suite

(Uri Mayer conductor, 1987)

Harp Concertos

(Gianetta Baril harp, Uri Mayer conductor, 1987)

Ginastera Harp Concerto, Opus 25 / Morawetz Concerto for Harp and Chamber Orchestra (Juno Award: Best Classical Composition)

Great Orchestral Marches

(Uri Mayer conductor, 1988)

Fučík Entrance of the Gladiators / Alford Colonel Bogey / Sousa Stars and Stripes Forever / Elgar Pomp & Circumstance No. 4 / Farnon State Occasion / Papineau-Couture Marche de Guillaument / Beethoven Turkish March (from The Ruins of Athens) / Schubert Marche Militaire / Johann Strauss I Radetzky March / Healey Willan Centennial March / Delibes Cortège de Bacchus / Tchaikovsky Jurisprudence March / Michael Conway Baker March (Evocations, Movement II) / Adaskin March No. 2 / Halvorsen Triumphal Entry of the Boyars / Grieg "March of the Dwarfs" (from Lyric Suite / Herbert March of the Toys (from Babes in Toyland) / Rodgers March of the Siamese Children (from The King & I) / John Williams The Imperial March (from The Empire Strikes Back)

Works for Cello and Orchestra

(Shauna Rolston cello, Uri Mayer conductor, 1989)

Morawetz Memorial to Martin Luther King / Bruch Kol Nidrei, Opus 47 / Fauré Élégie for Cello and Orchestra, Opus 24 / Dvořák Silent Woods, Opus 68 No. 5 / Bliss Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

The Symphony Sessions

(Tom Cochrane, Red Rider, George Blondheim conductor, 1989)

Light in the Tunnel / Human Race / Can’t Turn Back / Napoleon Sheds His Skin / White Hot / Big League / Calling America / Avenue "A" / Bird on a Wire / Boy Inside the Man / Lunatic Fringe / Good Times / The Next Life

Music by Britten and Willan

(Uri Mayer conductor, 1993)

Britten Canadian Carnival, Opus 19 / Britten Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes, Opus 33a / Willan Symphony No. 2 in C minor

Russian Sketches

(Uri Mayer conductor, 1997)

Ippolitov-Ivanov Caucasian Sketches, Opus 10 / Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin, Opus 24: Polonaise / Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty, Opus 66: Waltz / Shostakovich The Age of Gold: Suite, Opus 22a: Polka / Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia / Rimsky-Korsakov The Golden Cockerel: Suite

Electra Rising: Music of Malcolm Forsyth

(William Street saxophone, Amanda Forsyth cello, Grzegorz Nowak conductor, 1998)

Valley of a Thousand Hills / Tre Vie / Electra Rising (Juno Award: Best Classical Composition)

Music by Smetana and Janáček

(Grzegorz Nowak conductor, 1999)

Smetana Má vlast (original 1875 version) / Janáček Moravian Dances

P.J. Perry and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

(P.J. Perry, saxophone, David Hoyt conductor, 1999)

Django / Charlie Parker Medley / Bossa Nova Medley / They Kept Bach's Head Alive / Ballad Medley / Hand In Hand / Harlem Nocturne / The Old Castle / Strike Up The Band

Semi-Conducted (CD) / Three Worms and an Orchestra (DVD)

(The Arrogant Worms, David Hoyt conductor, 2003)

Overture / Big Fat Road Manager / Canada's Really Big / Rocks and Trees / Log In to You / I am Cow / Last Saskatchewan Pirate / Gaelic Song / Me Like Hockey / Carrot Juice is Murder / Dangerous / Billy the Theme Park Shark / Celine Dion / We are the Beaver

Frenergy: The Music of John Estacio

(Mario Bernardi conductor, 2004)

Frenergy / A Farmer's Symphony / Bootlegger's Tarantella / Such Sweet Sorrow / Solaris / Borealis / Wondrous Light

Steve Bell in concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (DVD)

(Steve Bell, vocalist, Rei Hotoda conductor, 2008)

Here By the Water / Deep Calls to Deep / Waiting for Aidan / Burning Ember / Lord of the Starfields / Even So / Wellspring / Holy Lord

Carl Czerny - A Rediscovered Genius

(Jolaine Kerley soprano, Joy-Anne Murphy alto, Benjamin Butterfield tenor, Paul Grindlay bass, André Moisan clarinet, Grzegorz Nowak 1 and Leonard Ratzlaff 2 conductors, 2011; recorded in 2002)

Grand Overture in C minor, Opus 142 1 / Overture in E major 2 / Offertorium: "Benedicat nos Deus", Opus 737 2

Logos Futura

(Antonio Peruch accordion, Grzegorz Nowak conductor, 2011; recorded in 2001)

Forsyth Concerto for Accordion and Orchestra