Passages
Blackwood – Independent 2024
Inspired by plainchant, free improvisation and holy minimalism (think Arvo Part meeting up with Bram Stoker) Blackwood members Jeff Reilly and Peter-Anthony Togni join up with cellist India Gailey to release this new album PASSAGES.
You can stream or download Lost and Found today!
Lost and Found
Blackwood – Independent 2021
LOST AND FOUND is Peter-Anthony Togni and Jeff Reilly’s collection of compositions inspired by subjects ranging from the power of dreams, the birth of children and grandchildren, the natural world and medieval plainchant. Composed both individually and collectively over a two-year period, this new album reflects the sum total of their shared musical experience.
You can stream or download Lost and Found today!
Sea Dreams
Luminous Voices – Leaf Music 2020
Recorded at the Bella Concert Hall at Mount Royal University, Sea Dreams was composed by Peter-Anthony Togni and features guest artists: Jeff Reilly, bass clarinet / Katie Partridge, soprano / Oliver Munar, tenor / Sarah Hahn-Scinocco & Sarah MacDonald, flute.
Sea Dreams reflects the relationship between the ocean and the sea as a life metaphor, with its implicit suggestion of journeying, inward emotions and ever uncertainties. A continuation of Togni’s recent works, in which choral writing is blended seamlessly with unusual accompanying instrumental support. The framing movements of the work draw on texts from T.S. Elliot’s Four Quartets, with the middle movement employing the words of the Marian hymn “Alma Redemptoris Mater”.
Winner of the 2021 East Coast Music Award
Classical Composition of the Year – Sea Dreams
Available from Leaf Music, Naxos and on your favourite streaming service.
Hymns of Heaven and Earth – Centerdiscs 2016
Ilana Waniuk (violin), Suhashini Arulanandam (violin), Rory McLeod (viola), Dobrochna Zubek (cello), Cary Ebli (cor anglais), Stacie Dunlop (soprano)
Hymns of Heaven and Earth, Peter-Anthony Togni’s first Centrediscs recording, showcases three smaller intimate works, woven together sonically by the string quartet.
Available for purchase from Amazon and on Apple Music
RESPONSIO – ATMA Classique 2015
In Responsio Peter-Anthony Togni reflects, comments, refutes, challenges and embellishes the bare medieval voice of Guillaume de Machaut and his medieval masterpiece the Messe de Nostre Dame. Juxtaposing bursts of bass clarinet improvisation against through composed choral material, Responsio casts the role of the bass clarinettist into that of a time traveller, bringing forward Machaut’s beautiful 14th creation into the heart of the 21st century.
Available for purchase from ATMA Classique and available on Apple Music
Estuary
The Sanctuary Trio – Independent 2015
Available on Apple Music
Lamentations of Jeremiah
ECM – 2009
The heart has its reasons – Warner Classics UK 2005
A suite for organ, cello, bass clarinet and strings.
Originally released on Warner Classics UK in 2005.
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing” Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a 17th century mathematician and physicist. In honour of his many scientific contributions the name pascal has been given to a unit of pressure and a computer programming language.
Following a near-death experience in 1654, Pascal abandoned his pursuits of mathematics and physics and turned to the heartfelt study of philosophy and theology. We dedicate this album to his brave choice.
Available on Apple Music
Christus
St. Mary’s Basillca Gallery Choir 2004
RefugeFloating Senses
Hanssler Classics 2003
Puer natus in Bethlehem, Alleluia!
Elmer Iseler Singers
CBC Records 2003
Sanctuary
XXIII Records 2001
Updated November 2024
Hello Mr. Togni,
Sorry to be late to your music, Mr. Togni, but I was a big fan of yours from the CBC Radio II days, early morning M-F. I really like the samples from the Shimmeree recording. Any way to get a copy. It seems to not be available for purchase anymore.
Best Regards,
Tony Walbridge
would like to hear an old tape I listened to in 1990,.i think it was Scarletta?
Especially impressed by the beautiful combination of the bass clarinet and a choir in the Lamentatio. Very nice combination between a traditional focus on church music and modern expression of feeling and music.
Congratulations and looking for new releases.
Patrick, Belgium