Recordings
CD launch of Duo Majoya's
Organ Duets
on the
Davis Concert Organ
Monday, August 23, 2010
12 noon
Winspear Centre for Music
Edmonton, AB
Free admission
Presented by the Winspear Centre for Music and the Davis Trust
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Recorded 2010
Winspear Centre for Music
Organ: Orgues Létourneau Op. 50
Skyscape
Duo Majoya
"These colorful organ/piano duets are brilliantly portrayed in spectacular sound. Grab it!"
— David Allen Wehr
Hillman Distinguished Chair of Piano
Duquesne University
Features compositions by Joe Utterback, Denis Bédard and Jeffrey McCune.
Recorded 2002
Casavant Pipe Organ and Steinway Concert Grand
Jack Singer Hall, Epcor Center
Calgary, AB
Now & Then
Marnie Giesbrecht
Solo organ
Recorded 2001
Convocation Hall, University of Alberta
and
West End Christian Reformed Church
Edmonton, AB
Bravato
Joachim Segger
Solo Piano
A piano recital featuring beloved works
Recorded 2002
The Elegance and
the Ecstasy
Duo Majoya
"There's lots of hot-blooded Gypsy flair in those Hungarian Dances."
— Rick Phillips of CBC Sound Advice
Duo Majoya inaugurated the year 2000 Wednesdays at Winspear series at the Winspear Centre for Music, Edmonton in a concert recorded for CBC broadcast. Playing piano duets has been a constant solace and joy for Marnie and Joachim throughout courtship, marriage, raising a family and the development of their individual performing and teaching careers.
Recorded 2000
Transcriptions for Two
Duo Majoya
"It is music making and ensemble playing of the highest order."
— Fred Swann
Duo Majoya's second CD includes new works for the innovative combination of piano and organ. Recorded on the nine-foot Steinway Concert Grand and the Létourneau organ, works on this CD are all transcriptions. They include Duo Majoya's arrangement of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite and an arrangement of Stravinsky's Firebird by Edmonton's Jeff McCune. Works for organ and piano commissioned for Duo Majoya since the release of T for Two include: Howard Bashaw's Music for Organ and Piano, released on the CD Bashaw in April 2000; Denis Bédard's Duet Suite for Organ and Piano, premiered May 2000; and Crossing to Byzantium by Jeffrey McCune, premiered July 2001.
Recorded 1997
Dancing Ice
Duo Majoya
"One of the year's best offerings."
— The American Organist
Duo Majoya's first CD Dancing Ice was recorded on the Létourneau 35-stop mechanical-action pipe organ at West End Christian Reformed Church in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It includes Jacobus Kloppers' Duet Suite: From the Musical Memoirs of a Canadian Organist for organ duet (CBC commission 1993) and his Organ Concerto (Marnie Giesbrecht, organist), Gerhard Krapf's Totentanz and Barrie Cabena's Variations on an Original Theme.
Recorded 1993
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