Collection search - CBC Tribute to Alexander Brott

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1995-09-29

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Vancouver: producer, Karen Wilson; recording engineer, Grant Rollage; Ottawa: producers, John [Sadall], [Catherine Mclehlan], [Paddy Moor]; technician, Pierre Mallette; executive producer, Charlotte [Chang]

Sound recording of an edition of Mostly Music devoted to composer Alexander Brott for his 80th birthday. The program begins with a performance of the work Ritual, recorded by the Orford String Quartet and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra (Simon Streatfeild, conductor) in 1986; the program continues with the performance of Brott's following works: Songs of Contemplation (CBC Vancouver Orchestra under the direction of Mario Bernardi; Lyne Fortin, soprano); Shofar (Denis Brott, cello); works for orchestra Arabesque (Denis Brott, cello), Circle, Triangle, 4 Squares, and Brott's arrangement and orchestration of Seven Minuets and Six Canons by Ludwig van Beethoven (CBC Vancouver Orchestra under the direction of Mario Bernardi). The program also contains the final movement of a recording of the Concerto for violin (McGill Chamber Orchestra conducted by Boris Brott; Angèle Dubeau, violin) and a snatch of conversation between Alexander Brott and the host, Kenneth Winters. <1h 54mn 19s>

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