Allan Gilliland

The National Broadcast Orchestra, reborn from the unfunded ashes of the CBC Radio Orchestra, had its premiere concert in January and the results are now archived on the CBC Concerts on Demand site, where you can get all kinds of good music for free. There’s assorted fun on offer, including Anton Kuerti on a Beethoven piano concerto written before  the canonical five. Of particular interest are the original Canadian compositions. No wait, come back! They’re fun. There’s a Michael Osterle symphony that chugs along tidily without, perhaps, going very far, but it’s all quite stately and tuneful.