To wrap up April, we feature the best of Centrediscs' 2025 Spring Playlist!

A presentation of the 2026 Juno Award Winning Ukrainian Requiem by Benedict Sheehan.

To celebrate his upcoming birthday, John Estacio is this week's MUSING guest, sitting down with host Janna Sailor to talk about his collaborative process in the creation of opera, and career wisdom to his younger self.

Playlist:

• Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernadi, conductor - A Farmer's Symphony: I. Seeds of Spring (excerpt)
• Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernadi, conductor - Bootlegger's Tarantella
• Edmonton Symphony Orchestra - Wondrous Light
• Russel Braune, baritone, James Ehnes, Carolyn Maulle - I Will Not Wake Her
• Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernadi, conductor - Solaris (excerpt #1)
• John Estacio - Excerpt from "Lillian Alling"
• Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi - Solaris (excerpt #2)

Women Composers of the Prairies are in the spotlight this week, as host Janna Sailor sits down with Mari Alice Conrad, Kristin Flores, and Lavinia Kell Parker to share their experiences balancing a composition career and raising a family!

Playlist:

• Tatiana Warszynski, violin - Horizon (Version for Solo Violin) II. Sunrise (excerpt)
• Erin James, violin, Todd Yaniw, piano, featuring Mari Alice Conrad, amplified percussion - Fabricated Fantasies for Violin, Piano, and Amplified Objects: II. Mistress of the Needle & Scissors (excerpt)
• Ensemble ArtChoral - Dum Felis Dormit
• Mari Alice Conrad - Troposphere for prepared piano
• Edmonton Winds - The Mountains Rend Themselves Apart (excerpt)
• Debra Fast, violin - In the Mountains
• Zuzana Šimurdová - Remembrance
• Astralis Quartet - Old Strathcona
• Iliana Matos - Frozen Coulee (excerpt)
• Brevitas Ensemble - Sweet Hour of Serenity
• Penderecki String Quartet - Other Names for Birds (excerpt)
• Erin James, violin, Todd Yaniw, piano, featuring Mari Alice Conrad, amplified percussion - Fabricated Fantasies for Violin, Piano, and Amplified Objects: I. The Machine Woman (excerpt)

Continuing our celebration of Woman's History Month, host Janna Sailor sits down with composer Vivian Fung to discuss collaborations, and new projects on the horizon.

Playlist:

• Vivian Fung, Jasper String Quartet - String Quartet No. 1: I Animato
• Steven Schick - The Ice is Talking
• Vivian Fung, Conor Hanick - Glimpses: III. Chant
• Vivian Fung, Jasper String Quartet - String Quartet No. 1: III. Pizzicato
• Conor Hanick, piano, Metropolis Ensemble, Andrew Cyr, Kristin Lee, violin - Piano Concerto: Movement I & II (excerpt)
• Conor Hanick, piano, Kristin Lee, violin, Metropolis Ensemble, Andrew Cyr - Violin Concerto (excerpt)

To kick off our celebration of Women's History Month, host Janna Sailor sits down with interdisciplinary artist rebecca bruton to talk about her compositional journey and release of her album "a root or mirror, blossom, madder, cracks; together"

Playlist:

• Rebecca Bruton, Quatuor Bozzini, JunctQín keyboard collective - The Faerie Ribbon: Part 3 (Excerpt)
• Quatuor Bozzini, Rebecca Bruton, JunctQín keyboard collective - The Faerie Ribbon: Part 1
• Quatuor Bozzini - All I dreamt; twice as much (excerpt 1)
• Quatuor Bozzini - All I dreamt; twice as much (excerpt 2)
• Quatuor Bozzini, JunctQín keyboard collective - The Faerie Ribbon: Part 2
• Quatuor Bozzini , JunctQín keyboard collective - The Faerie Ribbon: Part 3
• Quatuor Bozzini, JunctQín keyboard collective - The Faerie Ribbon: Part 4
• Rebecca Flood, Rebecca Bruton - Tangled Grass (2016) (excerpt)
• rebecca bruton - “Roper’s Overture” from rebecca bruton’s ‘Swanherds’

To celebrate Woman's History month, host Janna Sailor looks back at her interview with Emilie Lebel from last year!

Playlist:

• Emilie LeBel - drift
• Emilie LeBel - ...and the higher leaves of the tress seemed to shimmer in the last of the sunlight's lingering touch of them...

Guest Host Anton Lindenblatt introduces our monthly Legacy Composer series, rounding off Black History Month with a feature of Robert Nathaniel Dett.

Playlist:

• Luke Welch - Magnolia Suite: V. The Place Where the Rainbow Ends (excerpt)
• Clipper Erickson - Enchantment: IV Beyond the Dream
• Dorothy Maynor: soprano, Arpád Sándor: piano - Ride On, Jesus
• Dorothy Maynor: soprano, Arpád Sándor: piano - Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit
• Luke Welch - Magnolia Suite: I. Magnolias
• Luke Welch - Magnolia Suite: II. The Deserted Cabin
• Luke Welch - Magnolia Suite: III. My Lady Love
• Nathaniel Dett Chorale - I'll Never Turn Back No More
• Luke Welch - In The Bottoms: I. Prelude - Night
• Luke Welch - In the Bottoms: II. His Song
• Luke Welch - In the Bottoms: III. Honey (Humouresque)
• Luke Welch - In the Bottoms: V. Juba Dance
• May Festival Chorus, James Conlon: conductor, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra - The Ordering of Moses: V. "...and from a Burning Bush"
• Nathaniel Dett Chorale - Listen to the Lambs
• Denver Oldham: piano - Eight Bible Vingnettes: VI. Martha Complained
• Luke Welch - Nepenthe and the Muse

Our Centrediscs Playlist of the Month features extraordinary Canadian artists in honour of Black History Month!

Playlist:

• Elliot Madore, baritone, with Steven Philcox, piano - The Cloth is Eaten by Moths
• Ted Runcie String Quartet - String Quartet No. 1: Moderato-Allegro
• Elaquent - Dripsody Remix
• Stewart Goodyear, piano - Prelude and fugue
• Madawaska String Quartet - Madra
• Gillian Smith, violin - Limpidités IV
• Marc Bourdeau - The Gentle Waltz
• Measha Bruggergossman and Steven Philcox - The Confession Stone: The Words of Mary
• Clipper Erickson - Cave of the Winds,
• Marc Bourdeau - Hymn to Freedom

Host Janna Sailor interviews composer, organist, and spoken word artist Rashaan Rori Allwood as part of our celebrations of Black History Month!

Playlist:

• Rashaan Rori Allwood, organ - Mazeppa, S. 100 (excerpt #1)
• Tanya Charles Iveniuk: violin, Rashaan Rori Allwood: piano - Lover (arranged for Violin and Piano)
• Rashaan Rori Allwood, organ - Mazeppa, S. 100 (excerpt #2)
• Rashaan Rori Allwood, synthesizer - Addis Ababa: Moog SubH, M32, DFAM, Ethopian Chant and a Stockhausen Lecture
• Rashaan Rori Allwood, organ - Mazeppa, S. 100 (excerpt #3)
• Shayna Jones, spoken word, Rashaan Rori Allwood, tape - Microbes
• Rashaan Rori Allwood, organ - Mazeppa, S. 100 (excerpt #4)