While the Leroux disc is presented as a portrait of a composer, in the string quartet discs mentioned above we are given portraits of places. The Quatuor Bozzini disc Portrait Montréal (CQB 0401 www.actuellecd.com) says as much in the title. We are presented with works by four very different composers which not only showcase the diversity of the Montréal new music scene, but also the wide area of interest and expertise of the Bozzini Quartet. Beginning with Michael Oesterle’s arrangement of the late Claude Vivier’s (see Pamela Margles’ review of Chants in the Modern and Contemporary section) classic Pulau Dewata, a Balinese-inspired work originally scored for any combination of instruments, the disc moves through Jean Lesage’s post-modernist pastiche (in the best sense of the word) Quatuor à cordes II and Oesterle’s own haunting Daydream Mechanics V, to the structured improvisation of Malcolm Goldstein’s A New Song of many faces for In These Times. Picked as the Prix Opus 2001 “Discovery of the Year”, this is indeed an ensemble to watch. My only regret with this disc is that in spite of program notes for the individual pieces there is no information whatsoever provided about the composers.