To my great delight, the long-awaited CD featuring works for solo woodwinds arrived in my mailbox today.
The CD, My Soul Upon My Lips, was produced by Redshift Records with funding from Canada Council. It features works by Jeffrey Ryan for flute, oboe, bassoon, alto saxophone, alto flute, clarinet, English horn, contra-bassoon, and me! The tárogató is the odd man in the lot. I recorded Ryan’s Arbutus for tárogató and piano (with Corey Hamm).
This release of this album has particular significance to me because the day of my recording session happened also to be the day of my mysterious accident that caused me to lose my mobility. On my way to the recording session, my right leg suddenly stopped working and I had to phone Jeffrey from the Skytrain station to come help me make my way to the recording studio. It was probably shock that got me through the session as it went rather well and we even finished up a half hour earlier than our time allotment. Four months on, the cause of the accident was diagnosed as cancer rather than simply a sports injury.
It looks like the official release of the CD is sometime in October, which will coincide with the for-the-time-being end of my cancer treatments.