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- 1991-2007 (Creation)
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Subseries consists of correspondence, editing notes, draft liner notes, recording schedules, budgets, CD sales, and other documents relating to the production of Esprit Orchestra's CDs.
Subseries includes materials relating to the following recordings by Esprit Orchestra:
[1] Schafer, Pauk, Dusatko, Chan, Cherney (Toronto: CBC Records, 1991)
- Recorded at Oasis Studios, Toronto.
- Tracks: Dream rainbow dream thunder / R. Murray Schafer ; Echo Spirit Isle / Alex Pauk ; Traces of becoming / Tomas Dusatko ; Ecstasy / Chan Ka Nin ; Into the distant stillness / Brian Cherney.
[2] Iridescence (Toronto: CBC Records = Disques SRC, 1994)
- Recorded in Toronto, March 12-13, 1992.
- Tracks: Iridescence / Chris Paul Harman ; Cosmos / Alex Pauk ; Scorpius / R. Murray Schafer ; Town / Harry Freedman; Sparkskraps / Istvan Anhalt.
[3] Music for heaven and earth (Toronto: CBC Records, 1995).
- Recorded at Studioasis, April 10-11, 1995.
- Tracks: Nocturne : for chamber orchestra / Colin McPhee; Touchings : for percussion and orchestra / Harry Freedman ; Music for heaven and earth : for large orchestra / Alexina Louie ; Berceuse : For those who sleep before us, for flute and orchestra / Robert Aitken.
[4] Tabuh-Tabuhan (Toronto: CBC Records = Disques SRC, 1997)
- Tracks: Symphony no. 2 / Colin McPhee ; Concerto for wind orchestra / Colin McPhee ; Transitions / Colin McPhee ; Tabuh-tabuhan / Colin McPhee ; Nocturne / Colin McPhee.
[5] Celebration (Toronto: CBC Records, 2000)
- Recorded November 14 and 25, 1999 at Massey Hall, Toronto.
- Tracks: Third piano concerto / Harry Somers ; Five songs for dark voice / Harry Somers ; Elegy, transformation, jubilation / Harry Somers.
[6] Music for a thousand autumns (Toronto: Centrediscs = Centredisques, 2002)
- Recorded at Glenn Gould Studio, Canadian Broadcasting Centre, Toronto.
- Tracks: Music from night's edge / Alexina Louie ; Music for a thousand autumns / Alexina Louie ; Dénouement / Alexina Louie ; Demon gate / Alexina Louie.
[9] Letters from Mignon (Montreal: Atma, 2007)
- Tracks: Letters from Mignon / R. Murray Schafer ; Thunder, perfect mind / R. Murray Schafer ; Minnelieder / R. Murray Schafer.
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- Schafer, R. Murray (Subject)
- Dusatko, Tomas (Subject)
- Chan, Ka Nin (Subject)
- Cherney, Brian (Subject)
- Freedman, Harry (Subject)
- Anhalt, Istvan (Subject)
- Aitken, Robert (Subject)
- Somers, Harry (Subject)