Centrediscs have recently released a CD of music by Toronto composer Colin Eatock.  It’s a mix of choral and  orchestral works; most of the former for unaccompanied voices.  There are ten works on the disc making a generous 67 minutes or so of music.

The first piece is Ashes of Soldiers for soprano, clarinet, harp and strings.  It’s a Walt Whitman setting and almost certainly the first piece of Colin’s music I ever heard.  It’s still I think my favourite.  It’s both elegant and elegiac and has a really interesting clarinet part (played here by Kornel Wolak.  The soprano part is nicely sung by Lynn Isnar and it’s lovely to hear her again.

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