This recording is part of the Centrediscs’ Canadian Composers Portraits series which documents the emergence of a generation of pioneering professional composers who firmly established Canada’s place on the world’s musical map. Each release in this retrospective of the last fifty years is dedicated to a single composer and uniquely combines full-length documentaries on the composers’ lives and music, as well as a selection of their most important works.

CD 1

Glick documentary produced and prepared by Eitan Cornfield / Documentaire sur Glick produit et présenté par Eitan Cornfield

CD 2

1-3. String Quartet No.2

4-9. I Never Saw Another Butterfly

10-12. Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra

PERFORMERS:

St. Lawrence String Quartet: Geoff Nuttall & Barry Shiffman (violins / violons); Lesley Robertson (viola / alto); Marina Hoover (cello / violoncelle)
Maureen Forrester (contralto); John Newmark (piano)
Ralph Gothóni (piano & conductor / chef d’orchestre)
Finlandia Sinfonietta