In addition to numerous broadcasts on the CBC Radio One and CBC Radio Two networks, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra can be heard on compact disc. MCO's recording career started with the release of Canadian Music for Chamber Orchestra, released on the prestigious BIS label, and has flourished since.
Four discs have been released on the CBC Records label, the most recent featuring Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman.This is the superstar's first CD, and it has received rave reviews, and was named 'Album of the Month' in the December 2004/January 2005 issue of La Scena Musicale.
Some of these CDs are available online; simply click the links below. For sales outside Canada, please email info@themco.ca or (204)783-7377.
So much to tell
Roy Goodman, conductor
Measha Brueggergosman, soprano
CBC Records SMCD5234
Aaron Copland / Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Samuel Barber / Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Samuel Barber / Serenade for Strings
George Gershwin / Embraceable You, By Strauss
and I've Got a Crush on You
Sea Sketches
Roy Goodman, conductor
CBC Records SMCD5227
$20CDN +gst
Gareth Walters / Divertimento for strings
William Walton / Two pieces for strings
Grace Williams / Sea Sketches
Peter Warlock / Serenade for strings
William Walton / Sonata for strings
Gerald Finzi: Meditation
Simon Streatfeild, conductor
Valdine Anderson, soprano
Russell Braun, baritone
James Campbell, clarinet
CBC Records SMCD5204
$20CDN +gst
Gerald Finzi / Dies natallis, op. 8, for high voice and strings
Gerlad Finzi / Romance, for string orchestra, in E flat
Gerald Finzi / Let us garlands bring
Gerald Finzi / Concerto in C, for clarinet and strings
A Britten Serenade
Simon Streatfeild, conductor
Benjamin Butterfield, tenor
Henriette Schellenberg, soprano
James Sommerville, French horn
CBC Records SMCD5187
Benjamin Britten / Serenade for tenor,
horn and strings, op. 31
Benjamin Britten / Les Illuminations, op. 18
Benjamin Britten / Nocturne, op. 60, for tenor, obbligato
instruments and strings
25th Anniversary Limited Edition Live Recording
Simon Streatfeild, conductor
Independent 1997
$20CDN +gst
Dmitri Shostakovich / Chamber Symphony, op. 110A
Nikos Skalkottas / Five Greek Dances
Edvard Grieg / Two Norwegian Airs, op. 63, for strings
Percy
Grainger / Irish Tune from County Derry
Buy '25th Anniversary Live' now!
Canadian Music for Chamber Orchestra
Simon Streatfeild, conductor
David Stewart, violin
Vincent Ellin, bassoon
BIS CD698
Andrew P. MacDonald / Concerto for violin and orchestra (1991)
Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté / Concerto for bassoon and orchestra (1950)
Michael Matthews / Between the Wings of Earth (1993)
Anne Manson / Music Director and Conductor
MCO’s 2011/12 season is sponsored by The Great-West Life Assurance Company. Support has been received from Media sponsors Winnipeg Free Press, CBC Radio One 990, CBC Radio 2 98.3, Espace musique 89,9 and Golden West Radio. Heartstrings gala sponsor: Mann Financial Assurance Limited. Sponsor of open dress rehearsals: Canadian Bridge Federation. Arts Accessibility Program: Sun Life Financial Touring support: Travel Manitoba.
© 2011 Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
