CANADIAN CLASSICS CLASSIQUES CANADIENS I SAW ETERNITY Corlis • Enns • Tiefenbach • Watson Henderson • Halley Galbraith • Mozetich • Sirett • Buhr • Raminsh • Chatman Elora Festival Singers • Noel Edison # Glenn Buhr (b. 1954): Agnus Dei (from The Ritchot Mass) (1996) 6:20 I SAW ETERNITY Text: Mass (Latin)

1 Timothy Corlis (b. 1972): Gloria (from Missa Pax) (2009) 7:08 $ (b. 1943): Psalm 23 (1985) 5:57 Text: Mass (Latin) Text: Bible (Psalms)

2 Leonard Enns (b. 1948): I saw eternity (2008) 6:37 % Stephen Chatman (b. 1950): Remember Text: Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) (Rossetti Songs, No. 2) (1999) 3:00 Text: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) 3 Peter Tiefenbach (b. 1960): Nunc Dimittis (2003)* 3:29 Text: Bible (St. Luke) *Composed for the Elora Festival Singers (b. 1932): Missa Brevis (1976) 12:25 4 Kyrie 1:56 Michael Bloss, Organ (track 9) 5 Gloria 3:45 Leslie De’Ath, Piano (track 1) 6 Sanctus – Hosanna – Benedictus 4:33 7 Agnus Dei 2:11 John Marshman, Cello (track 11) Text: Mass (Latin) Stephen Pierre, Clarinet (track 11)

8 Timothy Corlis: To See the Cherry Hung With Snow (2007)* 3:49 Elora Festival Singers Text: A.E. Housman (1859-1936) Noel Edison 9 Paul Halley (b. 1952): Bring Us, O Lord God (2002) 6:13 Text: John Donne (1572-1631) and Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Publishers: Cypress Press (Cypress Choral Music). Vancouver, B.C. Canada (track 1); Monarda Music, Waterloo, ON Canada (track 2); © Peter Tiefenbach (track 3); 0 Craig Galbraith (b. 1975): Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (2005)* 6:22 Gordon V Thompson Ltd. Canada (A Division of Warner Chappell Music) (tracks 4-7); Text: Liturgy of St. James, translated by Gerard Moultrie (1829-1885) © Timothy Corlis (track 8); Back Alley Music (ASCAP), Administered by Pelagos Inc. (track 9); © Craig Galbraith (unpublished) (track 10); © Marjan Mozetich (unpublished) (track 11); ! Marjan Mozetich (b. 1947): Flying Swans (2010) 8:48 © Mark G. Sirett (unpublished) (track 12); © Glenn Buhr (unpublished) (track 13); Text: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), translated by Aurobindo Bose Gordon V. Thompson Music, Canada (A Division of Warner Chappell Music) (track 14); Highgate Press, A division of ECS Publishing, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (track 15) @ Mark G. Sirett (b. 1952): Bless the Lord for the Good Land (2000)* 3:50 Text: adapted from Bible (Deuteronomy) I Saw Eternity group’s recordings. In 1999 he moved to rural expressionism and minimalism into an original spiritual The music of Timothy Corlis is instilled by his background noted Canadian singers such as the late Maureen Connecticut, continuing his work with choirs and church style of post-modern romanticism, especially popular with of community singing in the south-western Forrester, Russell Braun and Donna Brown, and is now music by establishing the children’s choir, Chorus contemporary dance companies as well as the layman. (Canada) region of Kitchener-Waterloo. He holds a on faculty at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Angelicus and the adult ensemble, Gaudeamus. Since When his 1997 Violin Concerto, ‘Affairs of the Heart’, was Master of Arts in Social and Political Thought from York Conservatory of Music in . He composed his 2007, Halley has been based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, broadcast on CBC Radio in Canada, the telephone University and a Masters of Music from the University of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis on commission for the Elora where he is the Director of Chapel Music at the University switchboards lit up from coast to coast. Although much of Toronto. Currently, he is completing a Doctorate of Festival Singers in 2005. The Nunc Dimittis is the Latin of of King’s College and University Musician at the Atlantic his music has been instrumental and orchestral, Flying Musical Arts at the University of (UBC) in the Song of Simeon, from the second chapter of St Luke. School of Theology. He is regularly commissioned to Swans, for choir and cello is an exception. The text is by Vancouver, as well as being a busy freelance composer, Simeon exclaims he is now ready to die after seeing what compose new music in a variety of genres, styles and the Nobel prize-winning Bengali poet and polymath, teacher and choral director. His music, described as he has long been waiting for, the promised Messiah. instrumentations. The Chronicle Herald of Halifax has Rabindranath Tagore. It was commissioned by the “atmospherically striking” and “bursting with vigour and Paired with the Magnificat or Song of Mary, the canticles described Halley as, “A perfect storm of energy and Cantabile Choirs of Kingston, Ontario, who gave the truth” is drawing a lot of attention in North America and is traditionally form part of the Evensong service of the creativity”. He has had a long, close and fruitful première in 2010 directed by Mark G. Sirett. now being performed and broadcast by some of Canada’s Anglican Church. relationship with the EFS Founding Conductor, Noel The founding director of the Cantabile Choirs of most prominent artists and ensembles. Reflecting his Ruth Watson Henderson is a popular and respected Edison. The anthem Bring Us, O Lord God was Kingston Mark Sirett graduated from Queen’s University belief that music can be a strong power for social change, name among the Canadian choral community. A graduate commissioned by the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and in Kingston, before going on to earn both Master’s and the Gloria is the emotional heart of the Missa Pax by of the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Mannes Boys in San Francisco to honour the twenty-fifth Doctoral degrees in choral conducting and pedagogy from Corlis, a full half-hour Mass, given its première in 2009 by School of Music in New York, she originally planned on a anniversary of their Cantor. The texts, by John Donne and the University of Iowa. He has been on faculty at the the Elora Festival Singers. The popular excerpt from A career as a concert pianist. Always a lover of choirs and Isaac Watts, deal with the dream of paradise and University of Alberta, the University of Western Ontario Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman, To See the Cherry choral music, she was the longtime pianist for the Festival fulfilment in heaven. and Queen’s University. He established the Cantabile Hung With Snow, has also been set by Ralph Vaughan Singers of Canada, later the Singers, and the A native of British Columbia, Craig Galbraith holds a Choirs of Kingston in 1996, and under his direction they Williams, George Butterworth, John Ireland and Ivor internationally-renowned Toronto Children’s Chorus. Her Bachelor of Music in Composition from UBC and a Master have won numerous awards and distinctions at regional, Gurney. choral music is now performed across North America, and of Music from the where he is now a national and international choral competitions. He acts Leonard Enns is active as a Canadian composer, the Ontario Choral Federation has created a choral candidate for a Doctor of Music Composition. Although he frequently as a choral clinician, adjudicator and guest teacher and choral director. He obtained undergraduate composition competition in her name. The Missa Brevis is has long had a love of singing, vocal and choral music, his conductor. His many choral compositions, sacred and degrees in music from Wilfrid Laurier University and The one of her most popular works. Lacking a Credo, it was broad interests have also taken him into the worlds of secular, are often performed across Canada, and he has Canadian Mennonite Bible College, a Master’s degree in written in 1974 for the . electroacoustic, chamber, opera and orchestral music. been commissioned by the likes of the National Youth choral conducting and a Ph.D. in Music Theory from Paul Halley has led a fascinating and varied career. Dedicated to nurturing and supporting young composers, Choir of Canada, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the Northwestern University in Chicago. On faculty at Conrad Born in England, he undertook his early musical training Galbraith serves as an Artistic Director of the Canadian Elora Festival Singers. The text of Bless the Lord for the Grebel College at the University of Waterloo, Enns is the in Ottawa, Canada, before returning to his homeland as Contemporary Music Workshop. He has received many Good Land comes from chapter eight of the Book of founding director of the Da Capo Chamber Choir. As part organ scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1977 prestigious commissions, including those from the Elmer Deuteronomy. of winning the 2008 Polyphonous Choral Competition in to 1990 he was Organist and Choirmaster at the Iseler Singers and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choral music is just one of the many interests of Seattle, Washington, Enns was commissioned for a piece Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. While Choir. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence was Glenn Buhr. His compositions show influences that range that explored the concept of time. I Saw Eternity, set to a there, Halley was also a principal member of the Paul commissioned in 2005 by the Elora Festival Singers. The from the classical tradition to jazz, Broadway and music of text by the seventeenth-century Welsh physician and Winter Consort, the innovative and experimental musical ancient hymn has inspired many composers, most the near East and India. A composer, music curator, metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan, explores the Platonic group led by American saxophone player Paul Winter. famously Ralph Vaughan Williams. producer, band leader, teacher and improvisational idea of human time as a mere shadow of eternity. The The group’s most popular album Missa Gaia or Earth Born in Italy to Slovenian parents, Marjan Mozetich pianist, he holds degrees in music from the University of choir, divided into sections, is used antiphonally to create Mass included the traditional Mass text, among others, emigrated to Canada as a child. After earning music Manitoba, UBC and the . In the the sense of shifting walls of sound, representing time. with the instruments of the Paul Winter Consort, vocalists degrees from the Royal Conservatory of Music and the 1990s, as Composer-in-Residence with the Winnipeg Peter Tiefenbach studied music in Canada, the and the sounds of wolves, whales, eagles and other University of Toronto, he studied privately with Luciano Symphony Orchestra, he co-founded and acted as United States and England, before settling in Toronto, animals. Halley was associated with the consort as a Berio in Rome. He is now on the music faculty at Queen’s curator of the Winnipeg New Music Festival, one of the where he is a busy pianist, accompanist, composer, vocal performer and composer for almost twenty years, earning University in Kingston, Ontario. Over his career most successful of its kind in the world. He has composed coach, teacher and broadcaster. He has collaborated with five GRAMMY® Awards for his work on several of the Mozetich’s music has evolved from avant-garde on commission for the Montreal and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, and his works have been performed by the Stephen Chatman is one of Canada’s most prolific Elora Festival Singers Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony, the and well-known composers. His teachers included the London Sinfonia, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, and prominent United States composer and The Elora Festival Singers (EFS), a GRAMMY®- and Juno-nominated chamber choir, was founded in 1980 by Noel pianist Louis Lortie. As well as a talented jazz pianist and the late innovative German composer Karlheinz Edison as the principal choral ensemble of the Elora Festival. Since 1997 the choir has been the core of the Toronto recording artist, Buhr has also composed several scores Stockhausen. With an undergraduate degree from Oberlin Mendelssohn Choir and the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers, and is the choral ensemble-in-residence of the Elora for film and theatre. He is currently on faculty in the Conservatory in Ohio and graduate degrees from the Festival for four weeks each summer. Through regular concert series, recordings, broadcasts, and touring, the EFS has Contemporary Music Program at Wilfrid Laurier University of Michigan, he is the Head of Composition at established a reputation as one of the finest chamber choirs in Canada and beyond. With nine releases on the Naxos University, and the artistic director of the Kitchener- UBC’s School of Music in Vancouver, where he has label, the EFS is known for its rich, warm sound and clarity of texture. The choir is renowned for its diverse styles, its Waterloo Symphony’s New Orchestra Series and NUMUS taught since 1976. A multiple award-winner, he has been commitment to Canadian repertoire and for its collaborations with other Canadian artists. concerts. The Agnus Dei is the last movement of Buhr’s commissioned by many of Canada’s choirs, orchestras, Missa Brevis, The Ritchot Mass. In the spring of 1997 the ensembles and artists, but is especially known for his Red River, south of Winnipeg, flooded its banks, causing numerous choral works. Before 1982, his music tended to many to lose their homes and possessions. Glenn Buhr be complex and atonal, but since then it has shown was among them, living in the town of Ritchot, Manitoba. influences of many musical styles, becoming more He recalls, “Grieving after the loss of our house, I wrote accessible, moving away from modernism and embracing the Mass.” The Ritchot Mass was commissioned by the a world of spirituality, reaching out to a broader audience. Elora Festival Singers and dedicated to those who He has been quoted as saying, “It’s easy to enjoy all types suffered. of music – I don’t want to be pigeon-holed. A composer Born in , Imant Raminsh has lived in Canada must be true to himself.” Remember is the second of Two since 1948. After a diploma and a degree at the Royal Rossetti Songs commissioned by the Vancouver Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto, he Chamber Choir in 1999. The text is by the nineteenth- studied for two years at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, century English poet Christina Rossetti, perhaps best . For more than thirty years Raminsh has been known for her words to the popular Christmas carol, In Principal Second Violin of the Okanagan Symphony The Bleak Midwinter. Orchestra. He founded the Youth Symphony of the Okanagan in the interior of British Columbia. He is also Rick Phillips the founding conductor of the Prince George Symphony www.soundadvice1.com Orchestra in northern B.C. In 2007 his homeland honoured him by making him an officer of the Three Stars This recording was made possible by a generous of the Republic of Latvia. He is known especially for his donation from Ellen Pearson. many choral works. Psalm 23 is one of two psalms settings for women’s voices and piano composed in 1984. Photo: Sophie Hogan

Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Lesley Bouza Andrea deBoer-Jones Bryan Rankine Michael Cressman Joanne Chapin Meghan Prescott Steve Surian Brian Emery Sheila Dietrich Alison Roy Steve Szmutni Paul Grambo Heather Fleming Nellie Scholtes Rob Teehan Richard Hrytzak MerryAnne Hutton Olga Tylman Joel Vanderzee Marc Michalak Alyssa Kerfoot Paul Ziadé Kevin Sean Pook Jennifer McCallum Jordan Stumpf I Saw Eternity Noel Edison Timothy Corlis a grandi à Kitchener-Waterloo, région du Singers of Canada (qui prit plus tard le nom de Elmer Noel Edison is well established as one of the most sud-ouest de l’Ontario. Les chants qui ont bercé sa Iseler Singers), ainsi que du Toronto Children’s Chorus. versatile and charismatic conductors in the world today. jeunesse imprègnent sa musique. Fixé à Vancouver, il Ses œuvres chorales font désormais partie du répertoire As conductor and artistic director of two world-class travaille présentement à compléter son Doctorat en canadien, et sont entendues sur tout le continent. En son Canadian ensembles, the large-scale Toronto musique à la University of British Columbia (UBC). À ses honneur, la Fédération chorale de l’Ontario (Choirs Mendelssohn Choir and the chamber-sized Elora activités de compositeur s’ajoutent le travail d’enseignant Ontario) a créé un concours de composition de musique Festival Singers, Edison is widely recognized and et de chef de chœur. Il croit profondément que le pouvoir chorale qui porte son nom. Missa Brevis, écrite à appreciated for his skillful, interpretive work with both de la musique peut transformer une société. Ce concept l’intention des Elmer Iseler Singers en 1974, compte choir and orchestra. He continues to serve as Artistic se reflète dans le Gloria, tiré de sa Missa Pax, œuvre parmi ses œuvres les plus populaires. Director of the Elora Festival as well as Organist and créée en 2009 par Elora Festival Singers. Né en Angleterre, Paul Halley a poursuivi ses études Choirmaster of one of the few all-professional church Leonard Enns mène aussi une fructueuse carrière de musicales à Trinity, Oxford, puis à Ottawa au Canada. De choirs in Canada at the Church of St. John the compositeur, d’enseignant et de chef de choeur. Membre 1977 à 1990, il fut titulaire des orgues et maître de Evangelist in Elora. An Honorary Degree of Doctor of de la faculté du Conrad Grebel College de la University of chapelle à la Cathédrale St. John the Divine à New York. Music was conferred on him by the University of Guelph Waterloo, il est le fondateur du Da Capo Chamber Choir. Parallèlement, il se joignit au célèbre Paul Winter and in 2009, he was appointed to the Order of Ontario, Après avoir remporté le concours Polyphonous Choral Consort, un groupe innovateur reconnu pour ses the province’s highest honour. Competition de Seattle (Washington) en 2008, Leonard expérimentations musicales dirigé par le saxophoniste Enns reçut une commande pour une œuvre ‘explorant le Paul Winter, avec qui il partage cinq prix GRAMMY®. Fixé concept du temps.’ L’œuvre I Saw Eternity, sur un texte à Halifax, en Nouvelle-Écosse depuis 2007, Paul Halley du poète métaphysique gallois Henry Vaughan (1622- est directeur musical de la Chapelle de la University of 1695), évoque l’idée que le temps, pour l’homme, n’est King’s College. L’hymne Bring Us, O Lord God est une qu’un simple reflet de l’éternité. commande du Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys Le pianiste et compositeur Peter Tiefenbach a de San Francisco, pour souligner le 25ième anniversaire poursuivi ses études musicales au Canada, aux États- de service de son directeur musical. Unis et au Royaume-Uni avant de s’installer à Toronto. Originaire de la Colombie-Britannique, Craig Galbraith Remarquable accompagnateur, il est reconnu pour ses poursuit présentement ses études de doctorat à nombreuses collaborations avec de grands chanteurs l’Université de Toronto. Bien qu’il adore le chant, la canadiens dont la regrettée Maureen Forrester, Russell musique vocale et chorale, Craig Galbraith aime aussi Braun et Donna Brown. Il enseigne maintenant à la Glenn explorer le monde de la musique électroacoustique, la Gould School du Conservatoire royal de musique de musique de chambre, l’opéra et la musique orchestrale. Toronto. Le Magnificat et Nunc dimittis ont été écrits à la C’est en 2005, à la demande d’Elora Festival Singers, qu’il demande d’Elora Festival Singers, en 2005. Le Nunc composa Silence. Cet ancien hymne a inspiré plusieurs dimittis (Cantique de Siméon), tiré du second chapitre de compositeurs, notamment Ralph Vaughan Williams. l’Évangile selon Saint-Luc, et le Magnificat (Cantique de Né en Italie de parents Slovènes, Marjan Mozetich a Photo: Frank Nagy la Vierge Marie), forment une partie de l’office des vêpres immigré au Canada alors qu’il était enfant. Diplômé du traditionnel de l’Église anglicane. Conservatoire royal de musique de Toronto et de Le nom de Ruth Watson Henderson suscite le l’Université de Toronto, il se rendit à Rome pour étudier respect dans le monde de la musique chorale au Canada. auprès du grand Luciano Berio. Il enseigne maintenant la Diplômée du Royal Conservatory of Music et de la musique à la Queen’s University de Kingston, en Ontario. Mannes School of Music de New York, elle fut longtemps De l’expressionisme d’avant-garde au minimalisme, sa pianiste attitrée d’ensembles renommés, comme Festival musique a évolué vers un style spirituel post-romantique, mais toujours empreint d’originalité. Flying Swans fait sur ce disque est une commande d’Elora Festival Elora Festival Singers figure d’exception dans la musique de M. Mozetich, dont Singers. la plupart des œuvres sont instrumentales. La pièce pour D’origine lettone, Imant Raminsh vit au Canada L’ensemble Elora Festival Singers (EFS) a été fondé par Noel Edison en 1980 dans le cadre du Elora Festival. Depuis, choeur et violoncelle utilise un texte de Rabindranath depuis 1948. Après ses études au Conservatoire royal de le chœur de chambre a récolté de nombreux honneurs, dont un prix GRAMMY® et une nomination pour un prix JUNO. Tagore, poète et philosophe indien couronné d’un Prix Musique et à l’Université de Toronto, il se rendit en Depuis 1997, Elora Festival Singers forme le noyau professionnel du Toronto Mendelssohn Choir ainsi que des Nobel. Autriche pour perfectionner son art au Mozarteum de Toronto Mendelssohn Singers, et agit comme Chœur en résidence de l’Elora Festival, qui se déroule chaque été sur Diplômé de Queen’s University de Kingston et de Salzbourg. Pour plus d’une trentaine d’années, Imant une période de quatre semaines. Grâce à sa saison de concerts annuelle, ses enregistrements et nombreuses University of Iowa, Mark Sirett est fondateur et directeur Raminsh a tenu le poste de Second violon solo du tournées, EFS s’est taillé une solide réputation, et compte parmi les chœurs de chambre les plus renommés, tant au de Cantabile Choirs de Kingston. Il a enseigné à Okanagan Symphony Orchestra. Il a de plus fondé le Canada qu’à l’étranger. Avec neuf enregistrements à son actif, EFS est reconnu pour sa sonorité riche et homogène, à University of Alberta, University of Western Ontario de Youth Symphony de la vallée d’Okanagan, en Colombie- la texture chaleureuse et claire. Le groupe se distingue pour sa polyvalence, se produisant dans divers styles avec même qu’à Queen’s University. Depuis sa fondation en Britannique. En 2007, Imant Raminsh reçut l’ordre des aisance, pour son engagement à défendre le répertoire canadien et ses collaborations avec de nombreux artistes 1996, Cantabile Choirs de Kingston a reçu de nombreux Trois Étoiles de la République de Lettonie, son pays canadiens. prix et récompenses dans le cadre de différents concours natal. Imant Raminsh est particulièrement réputé pour ses régionaux, nationaux, et au niveau international. Le texte œuvres chorales. Le Psaume 23, composé en 1984, est Noel Edison de Bless the Lord for the Good Land provient du huitième l’un des deux psaumes qu’il a créés pour voix de femmes chapitre du Livre du Deutéronome. et piano. Noel Edison est un chef charismatique, réputé à l’échelle internationale pour le brio avec lequel il dirige tous les La musique chorale est l’une des multiples facettes Stephen Chatman compte parmi les compositeurs les répertoires. À titre de directeur musical et artistique du Toronto Mendelssohn Choir et du chœur de chambre Elora du talent de Glenn Buhr. On dénote dans ses plus prolifiques et réputés au pays. Il a étudié auprès de Festival Singers - deux ensembles vocaux de calibre au Canada – il se distingue pour sa direction expressive, et pour compositions les influences du jazz, du classique, de grands maîtres dont le compositeur américain William son travail avec différents ensembles vocaux et instrumentaux. En plus d’assumer la direction artistique de l’Elora Broadway et même de la musique de l’Inde et du Proche Bolcom, et le regretté . Il est Festival, Noel Edison dirige le Chœur de l’Église St. John the Evangelist d’Elora (l’un des rares chœurs d’église Orient. Dans les années 1990, alors qu’il était responsable du programme de composition de la UBC’s professionnels au pays), où il est aussi organiste. L’Université de Guelph a décerné un diplôme honorifique à Noel Compositeur en résidence du Winnipeg Symphony School of Music de Vancouver, où il enseigne depuis Edison en reconnaissance de son travail exceptionnel. En 2009, il a été décoré de l’Ordre de l’Ontario. Orchestra, Glenn Buhr a contribué à la mise sur pied du 1976. Sa musique aux tendances complexes et atonales Winnipeg New Music Festival, dont il fut aussi le curateur. prit une nouvelle direction après 1982, alors qu’il adopta Ses œuvres ont été jouées entre autres par le Toronto un style plus spirituel qui semble rejoindre un plus grand Symphony Orchestra, l’Orchestre symphonique de auditoire. Commandée par le Vancouver Chamber Choir Montréal et la BBC Symphony. Glenn Buhr est en 1999, Remember est extraite de Two Rossetti Songs, présentement membre de la faculté du Contemporary sur un texte de Christina Rossetti, poétesse anglaise du Music Program de la Wilfrid Laurier University. En 1997, 19ième siècle, mieux connue pour son populaire chant de suite à une crue des eaux extrême, la Rivière Rouge Noël, In the Bleak Midwinter. (située au sud de Winnipeg) sortit de son lit, causant une désastreuse inondation. Glenn Buhr comptait parmi les Rick Phillips nombreuses victimes ayant perdu leur foyer, leurs www.soundadvice1.com possessions dans la localité de Ritchot. ‘Après avoir perdu ma maison, j’étais en état de deuil’, explique le compositeur. Inspiré par l’événement, il composa alors La production de cet enregistrement a été rendue une messe. Extrait de cette messe, l’Agnus Dei qui figure possible grâce à un don généreux de Ellen Pearson. I SAW ETERNITY Also available: 1 Timothy Corlis (b. 1972): Gloria (2009) 7:08 2 Leonard Enns (b. 1948): I saw eternity (2008) 6:37 3 Peter Tiefenbach (b. 1960): CANADIAN CLASSICS Nunc Dimittis (2003) 3:29 CLASSIQUES CANADIENS 4-7 Ruth Watson Henderson (b. 1932): Missa Brevis (1976) 12:25 This recording brings together eleven 8 Timothy Corlis: leading composers whose origins in or To See the Cherry Hung With Snow (2007) 3:49 strong associations with Canada are 9 Paul Halley (b. 1952): manifest in their central position in Bring Us, O Lord God (2002) 6:13 Canadian musical life. In a programme 0 Craig Galbraith (b. 1975): Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (2005) 6:22 through which the power of tradition ! Marjan Mozetich (b. 1947): and faith flows strongly, themes are Flying Swans (2010) 8:48 explored ranging from paradise and @ Mark G. Sirett (b. 1952): heavenly fulfilment to tragic loss; and Bless the Lord for the Good Land (2000) 3:50 from timeless hymn and psalm texts to # Glenn Buhr (b. 1954): Agnus Dei (1997) 6:20 an exploration of the brevity of human $ Imant Raminsh (b. 1943): Psalm 23 (1985) 5:57 % Stephen Chatman (b. 1950): existence in the title work, I Saw Remember (1999) 3:00 Eternity. One of the finest chamber choirs in Canada and beyond, the Michael Bloss, Organ 9 • Leslie De’Ath, Piano 1 Elora Festival Singers’ ‘must-have’ John Marshman, Cello ! • Stephen Pierre, Clarinet ! (Gramophone) programme of Eric Elora Festival Singers • Noel Edison Whitacre (8.559677) is just one of their This recording was made possible by many acclaimed recordings. a generous donation from Ellen Pearson. The available sung texts can be found at Booklet notes in English www.naxos.com/libretti/572812.htm Notice en français A detailed track list can be found inside the booklet Recorded at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Elora, Ontario, Canada, from April 7th-10th, 2011 www.naxos.com Producers: Norbert Kraft and Bonnie Silver 8.572765 Engineer: Norbert Kraft • Editor: Bonnie Silver Booklet notes: Rick Phillips Cover photo by Yasushi Tanikado (Dreamstime.com)