I think this blog is long overdue in giving a little love to CBC Records – I don’t think we’ve even mentioned them before. And they just got some great news – two Grammy nominations!

The first is for the James Ehnes disc Barber, Korngold, Walton: Violin Concertos pour violon, with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

The album is nominated in the category Best Instrumental Soloist with Orchestra.

The second nomination is for a very cool track CBC Records licensed to the new age/electronic band Delerium for their album Nuages Du Monde (Nettwerk.) [Delerium is an offshoot of the industrial music act Front Line Assembly and was founded by Bill Leeb of Skinny Puppy.]

The Delerium track, Angelicus, features a remix of Joyous Light from Isabel Bayrakdarian’s first release. It’s nominated in the category Best Remixed Recording, Non Classical.

(You may not know the category, but it sounds pretty cool – other nominees include Hamilton’s Junior Boys and mashups/remixes of tracks by Public Enemy and Pink Floyd.)

Speaking of Isabel Bayrakdarian, CBC Records has just released her new album, Tango Notturno.

It’s a collection of tango classics from around the world.

Also in time for the holidays is Andrew Craig’s The Gospel Christmas Project, 13 all-new studio recordings of Christmas classics. According to Craig,

“I wanted to create fresh new arrangements of the timeless Christmas classics with which I grew up. I wanted to raise the bar for Christmas music made in Canada. I wanted to create something that is 100% Canadian – singers, musicians, arrangements. And, considering that Gospel music was born in America, I wanted to create something that would make the Americans (and everybody else) say ‘Wow! This came out of Canada!?!?!’”

Both discs are available online via CBC Records. The 50th annual Grammy Awards take place on Feb. 10, 2008 in Los Angeles.

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