R. Murray Schafer is Canada’s pre-eminent composer and is well known internationally. In an era of specialization, he has shown himself to be a true renaissance man. He has won national and international acclaim not only for his achievement as a composer but also as an educator, environmentalist, literary scholar, visual artist and provocateur. The multi-award-winning Molinari Quartet returns with its third recording dedicated to the chamber music of R. Murray Schafer. The quartet’s 2003 recording of Schafer's Quartet no. 8, Theseus, Beauty and the Beast garnered recognition from the Académie Charles Cros (France), an OPUS prize for Album of the Year, and a 2004 JUNO Award which they shared with Schafer, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2012. Internationally acclaimed since its founding in 1997, the Molinari Quartet has established a mandate to perform works from the 20th and 21st centuries, repertoire for string quartet, and to commission new works.