Édition 25e anniversaire, 25 comp. (CD inclus)

Many congratulations!
A beautiful book and beautifully recorded CD by Marlène! Great musician! The guitar playing and musicianship are fabulous!
- Mark Houghton

Je viens de recevoir la partition du 25e anniversaire. Il n'y a pas beaucoup de CD qui me donnent autant d'émotion. Bravo et encore bravo!
Je serai ravi d'écrire une autre musique pour Marlène un jour, rien que pour elle.  Vraiment quel bonheur de  découvrir une nouvelle guitariste de talent!
Merci Marlène. Je suis sûr que ce disque va faire parler de toi dans le monde entier. Et beaucoup de guitaristes seront jaloux de ne pas avoir une telle sensibilité musicale.
Je t'envois mille baisers des Pyrénées.
- Takashi Ogawa

 

Nous célébrons en 2011 le 25e anniversaire de la maison d'édition Les Productions d'OZ.

En 2009, j'ai invité 25 de nos compositeurs à préparer pour cet événement une pièce originale. Tous acceptèrent sur-le-champ avec grand enthousiasme et ce fut le début d'une belle aventure...

J'ai confié à ma fille, Marlène Lemay, le soin de créer ces nouvelles compositions sur disque et sur scène, sachant à quel point elle pourrait y faire valoir son grand talent. À sa naissance en 1990, je lui dédiais ma méthode de guitare avec la mention «À Marlène pour qui tout commence». Aujourd'hui, après plus de 20 ans, ce sont 25 compositeurs de tous les coins du monde qui lui dédient leurs pièces.

Quoi de plus gratifiant et stimulant que ce merveilleux projet pour un éditeur, des compositeurs, une interprète et tous les artisans oeuvrant à la conception du livre et du disque!
- Sylvain Lemay


Annette Kruisbrink - Tendresse
I remember reviewing d'OZ's 1000th edition some years ago and for that occasion they produced a huge publication devoted to the compositions of Annette Kruisbrink and if memory serves me correctly, I thought it to be possibly the best edition from these Canadian publishers at that particular time. Now it's celebration time once again, hence this new album which has been published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Les Productions d'OZ. For the occasion Sylvain Lemay (the man behind d'OZ) invited 25 composers who are already in the publisher's catalogue to compose one original piece each. The end result is a collection of works from some of their best writers and which has brought forth probably some of the best music d'OZ has produced over these 25 years. The music is highly varied throughout, the many styles covering introspective and mood music, ragtime, romantic, latin, waltzes, Spanish, contemporary etc. (How apt that Annette Kruisbrink is honoured once again with concluding the album with a beautiful, understated and tender short work). It's quite impossible to separate anyone or two pieces which win the 'best of the lot', so I shan't bother. They are all very well written, attractive works in their own right and technically they range from Intermediate to high grade. The accompanying CD features Marlene Lemay (Sylvain's daughter) performing all the music in the book and she proves to be an excellent interpreter of these pieces and does them full justice with some very fine playing throughout. All the composers are written about in length at the start of the book and throughout the music is presented in the excellent quality we have come to expect from d'OZ. Finally, their 'resident' artist. Swiss-born Corina Sierk deserves to be mentioned as, over the years, she has provided some of the best, eye-catching cover artwork ever seen on music covers and surely must have contributed to sales in music shops where the editions are on display.
- Steve Marsh (Classical Guitar Magazine)