Pipedreams
The Fugue from Reger’s Op. 73 from the new and the old will feature on Pipeworks this weekend. For listing information in your area, visit: http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/stations/
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 [...]
the artist
Isabelle Demers at the organ is a force of nature-a diminutive dynamo to whom La Presse in Montreal attributed “vehement virtuosity.” A native of Québec, she is rapidly becoming recognised as one of North America’s most virtuosic organists. She began piano study at age six and at age 11 began piano and organ study at [...]
the organ
The 1995 four-manual tracker instrument by MARCUSSEN & SØN is widely regarded as one of the finest instruments in the country; designed by Simon Preston, it is a highly versatile and colourful instrument: Rygpositiv Principal 8′ Gedackt 8′ Quintaton 8′ Octave 4′ Koppelflute 4′ Quint 2 2/3′ Superoctave 2′ Waldflute 2′ Tierce 1 3/5′ Larigot [...]
the producer
Producer Geoffrey Silver received his musical training in England, where he sang as a boy chorister at Westminster Abbey, and as an undergraduate and graduate student at Trinity and St. John’s Colleges, Cambridge University. He works as a producer and freelance singer in New York City, and is a founder member of the male-voice early [...]
the engineer
Simon Eadon started at Decca in 1970 straight from school. The recording industry is not a profession normally associated with ex-pupils of Harrow School! However, a three-year apprenticeship involved precisely duplicating Master Tapes from which Decca’s overseas licencees would cut their own LPs and press them locally. In this period the art of analogue (razor [...]
the master
Acis was fortunate to secure the expertise of Tom Durack for creating the mix and final master of the new and the old – l’ancien et le nouveau.
the design
The cover design for the old and the new went through several revisions before the final version was chosen. Producer Geoffrey Silver says, “it became immediately clear on hearing Isabelle practicing and registering her arrangement of the Prokofiev, that a duotone cover simply wouldn’t do.” Luckily the School had repainted the case since I played [...]
Organ CD
The new and the old, L’ancien et le nouveau, is the exciting debut recording from Juilliard Doctoral student and Truckenbrod artist, Isabelle Demers. Her performance on this disc provides a new look at Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV 532, the artist’s own Organ Suite arrangement of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juiliet, and the virtuosic [...]
Mokaleng Charity
Mokaleng School has a great need for funds. Although a government-run school, the government does not provide food, accommodation or clothing. This is despite the fact that most of the children live on less than US$1 a day. Almost all children board at the School, as they live several hours’ walk or donkey-cart ride away, [...]
