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.

Nominated for a 2009 Lauréats Prix OPUS: Recording of the Year

« Altogether, this disc is a treat, for those who are steadfast admirers of new music and for those wishing only to expose the ears to something different. »

– Richard Haskell, Wholenote

Video:

The Contemporary Keyboard Society performs Interferences III by alcides lanza

CD 1

Lanza documentary produced and prepared by Eitan Cornfield/

Documentaire sur Lanza produit et présenté par Eitan Cornfield

CD 2

1. eidesis II

2. penetrations II

3. un mundo imaginario

4. ontem

5. ektenes III

6. aXents

PERFORMERS:

New Music Concerts, Toronto; alcides lanza (conductor/chef d’orchestre)
McGill Composers Ensemble; alcides lanza (conductor/chef d’orchestre)
McGill Concert Choir, Iwan Edwards (conductor/chef de choeur)
Meg Sheppard (voice/voix)
Shawn Mativetzky (tablas, percussion); alcides lanza (DSP)
Simon Aldrich (clarinet/clarinette); Luc Maltais (DSP)
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne; Lorraine Vaillancourt (conductor/chef d’orchestre)