Pipistrelle Music is a new CD label founded by Alison in 2009 with the goal of bringing innovative artistic collaborations of diverse kinds to the listening world. Pipistrelle’s developing catalogue includes Baroque and Renaissance music, outside-the-box classical, and world music with a twist. Currently carrying titles by the genre-bending Ensemble Polaris and Melville herself, discs from this catalogue have earned international critical acclaim, from a BBC Music Magazine’s Disc of the Month nomination, to Toronto Star reviewer John Terauds’s “Prepare to be enchanted.”

Pipistrelle’s catalogue, now available for digital download through most on-line digital vendors, will be physically distributed across North America by Naxos of America beginning in October 2010. Check your local CD vendor in the United States or Canada.
For sales outside Canada and the USA, write to pipistrellemusic@gmail.com.

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Or you can purchase digital downloads at your preferred online vendor.

Next up on Pipistrelle!

The Business of Angels - Cover

The Business of Angels - Booklet

The Business of Angels explores recorder music from the cosmopolitan and eccentric musical world of early 18th-century London.
Sonatas, divisions and other tunes by Corelli, Händel, Wm. Topham, Paisible, Daniel Purcell, Mercy and several others come enthusiastically to life as played by Alison and Lucas Harris, guitar and archlute; Borys Medicky, harpsichord; Joëlle Morton, bass viol; and Nadina Mackie, baroque bassoon.

Available in stores across North America, and worldwide through most digital service providers. For physical copies outside North America, contact pipistrellemusic@gmail.com

A new CD by Ensemble Polaris, featuring new original material and tunes from the band’s recent shows, is in the manufacturing stage and will be available on Pipistrelle early in 2012!

What the press is saying:

‘Si l’angélisme est une entreprise, alors celle de ces musiciens de Toronto est promise à une belle prospérité… les pièces sur ce disque constituent de beaux exemples de musique profane anglaise du 17e siècle. Rien de bien surprenant, mais du plaisir assuré à l’écoute de ces petites sonates pimpantes, jouées avec brillance par les musiciens torontois. Alison Melville est une interprète de premier niveau…’

‘Alison Melville is one of Canada’s leading recorder players; her performances here combine scholarship, elegance and vitality, and capture the spirit of the music with authority and conviction. The four continuo players enable various combinations to be selected that provide both substance and transparency. Deserving of special note is the bassoon playing of Nadia Mackie Jackson. The bass line in the closing variations of Corelli’s Folia, a test for any cellist, is mastered with stunning virtuosity – bravo! This is a fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable disc.’

Photo Credits: Paul Orenstein (banner); Colin Savage