We are very pleased to offer RealAudio excerpts from certainworks andrecordings by Victor Davies. Most of the excerpts are40-60 seconds in length,and will take roughly 30 seconds to download(with a 28.8 modem). Of course,there's always much more to hearon the CDs themselves, which obviously soundmuch cleaner as well!

All of the selections are encoded in RealAudio 3.0 sound format.In orderto enjoy this music, your computer must be equipped withthe following hardwareand software.

Requirements:

Download a free RealAudio player here:

Playing the Soundbites:
If you meet the above requirements and have everything configuredproperly,then simply click on RealAudio links from the CatalogueofWorks, or the Recordingspages, to hearthe music!


Listing of RealAudio excerpts

a piano quartet

Commissioned by Theodore Arcand in memore of his wife
Premiered September 20, 1998, Covocation Hall, McMaster University

RealAudio-"Prologue"in its entirety

Valerie Tryon - piano
Marta Hidy - violin
Michael Schulte - viola
Zdenek Konicek - cello


an oratorio
Music and libretto written by Victor Davies

World Premiere Feb. 3, 1996

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey, Conductor
Paul Frey and Dennis Beisbrecht (tenors)
Irena Welhasch Baerg (soprano)
Elizabeth Turnbull (mezzo soprano)
Theodore Baerg (baritone)
Mennonite Oratorio Choir
William Baerg / Rudy Schellenberg, co-directors

Commissioned by the Fast Family

RealAudioexcerpt#1
RealAudioexcerpt#2


Pulsations - Concerto for Electric Violin
Part1- TheWheel of Fire: "The Cosmic Dance"

London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Kunzel (cond.)
Arthur Polson (violin)

Fun For Four
String Quartet #1
Mvt2: "TheMagic Carpet"

performed by the Armin Electric Strings


Silhouettes-"CityLights" finale

Arthur Polson (violin)
Melinda Coffey (piano)
Ian Hampton (cello)

YukonScenesfor Flute and Piano - "Ice Crystals"

Kathleen Rudolf (flute)
Robert Rogers (piano)

FunforFor excerpt from Pulsations CD


The Mennonite Piano ConcertoCD

The Mennonite Piano Concert
Movement1- Sonata

London Symphony Orchestra, Boris Brott (cond.)
Irmgard Baerg, piano

Good Times (Suite for Orchestra)
Movement1-"Fugue, Waltz and Ragtime"

Boris Brott conducting members of the London Symphony Orchestra


TheHollyand the Ivy
Victor Davies, Arr.

The Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler, cond.


JupiterTrain

The Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Polson, cond.