New Demers CD of Laurin
A native of Quebec province, Rachel Laurin is an organist, composer and pedagogue. She was principal organist at Ottawa’s Notre-Dame Cathedral and has made 11 recordings. She has composed more than 60 works for instruments, choirs and ensembles that have been performed and recorded in America, Europe, Asia and South Africa. On this new CD [...]
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Isabelle Demers and Aeolian-Skinner, Opus 1024
Click on the play button below for three “live” excerpts from this week’s sessions in Amarillo, Texas. For more about St. Andrew’s and its fabulous organ click here. For news about Isabelle’s visit to Amarillo, click here. Isabelle Demers’ website.
C&O 4 Stars
Choir & Organ awards 4 stars This CD’s title ‘The Old and the New’ reflects Isabelle Demers’s intention of making full use of the colouristic possibilities of modern organs such as the 1995 IV/67 Marcussen at Tonbridge School. In Bach’s D Major Prelude & Fugue BWV 532 there are enough stop changes to upset the [...]
New artist website
Organist Isabelle Demers has recently completed her second recording session with Acis, of works by Canadian composer Rachel Laurin. Release date: Spring 2011. Acis is developing a new website for Isabelle Demers, “Isabelle Demers dot Organ” at www.isabelledemers.org Facebook users can visit her fanpage here.
Pipedreams
Michael Barone, presenter of Pipedreams for American Public Media featured the Fugue from Reger’s Op. 73 (CD: the new and the old) on his September 6, 2010 program. Barone identified organist Isabelle Demers as, “definitely a talent to watch, to hear…” “a masterful score, here masterfully played…”
CMQ Recommends…
CMQ, the quarterly publication by the Royal School of Church Music, awards the new and the old its highest *** rating, and recommends it as CD of the month: THE NEW AND THE OLD Isabelle Demers plays the 1995 Marcussen organ of Tonbridge School · Acis (for availability see www.acisproductions.com) ‘Isabelle Demers at the organ [...]
Fanfare Magazine Reviews
Critical Acclaim for the new and the old: The instrument serves Demers and her repertoire well, projecting the Reger in particular with great clarity. Acis’s recorded sound is superb. Carson Cooman, Fanfare Magazine if you’re looking for an organ disc to rattle the rafters and shake the floor boards, this one should do quite nicely…Demers’s [...]
Rachel Laurin Download
A new digital release of Étude héroïque, op. 38 by Canadian composer Rachel Laurin, is now available for download, performed by Isabelle Demers. Rachel Laurin is a featured composer at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in Washington, D.C. in July 2010. Her work, Fantasy for harp and organ, Op.52, will receive [...]
North American Distribution
Acis is proud to announce a distribution deal for our titles through Albany Music. The new and the old featuring organist Isabelle Demers, will be available from Albany and arkivmusic.com from August 2010.
download now available
the new and the old – l’ancien et le nouveau is now available for single track and whole album digital download. Delivery to iTunes is anticipated shortly.
new and the old on Amazon from May 17
Acis Productions is proud to announce the forthcoming availability from May 17 of its latest recording, the new and the old, l’ancien et le nouveau, by organist, Isabelle Demers on the new and the old – l’ancien et le nouveau debut recording from Isabelle Demers, on British Label Acis Bach – Prokofiev – Reger This [...]
