NEW RELEASE!

Gems with an Edge
Release Date: Spring 2003
Label: Welspringe Productions

Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano

A re-issue of Petrowska Quilico’s 1970's CBC recordings of works by Messiaen, Boulez, Brégent, Davidovsky and Coulombe Saint-Marcoux.

Titles

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus (1944)
1. 1V Regard de la Vierge (4:33)

2. XI Premere communion de la Vierge (5:55)

3. XVI Regard des prophetes, des bergers et des Mage (3:22)

4. II Regard de l'etoirle (2:38)

5. XIV Regard des Anges (4:33)

6. VIII Regard des hauteurs (2:21)

7. XIII Noel (3:28)

Michel-Georges Bregent (1948-1993)
Geste (1970) (7:58)

Mario Davidovsky (1934)
Synchronism VI (1970) (7:04)

Pierre Boulez (1925)
Troisieme Sonate pour piano
(Formant 2-Trope) (1961) (8:09)

Micheline Coulombe Saint Marcoux (1938-1985)
Assemblages (1969 revised 1972) (8:33)

Reviews of Gems with an Edge

"Petrowska is well known in Canada but not in this country, and I hope these two releases will help to remedy the discrepancy. She's an excellent musician, technically shillful and interpretively sound. She knows her way through the thorny thickets of Messiaen, Boulez, and the other contemporary composers, delivering their strange rhythms and discords effectively." - American Record Review

"One of Canada's most loyal interpreters of contempoary keyboard music ..." - William Littler, Toronto Star

"Petrowska creates poignant, shimmering textures out of Boulez's abstract fragmented structures." - Pamela Margles, WholeNote Magazine

Gems with an Edge is available through the Canadian Music Centre CD Boutique at www.musiccentre.ca. Download and listen to an MP3 file of Geste by Michel-George Brégent from the CD. More free classical music from Christine Petrowska Quilico.