Quatuor de saxophones Nelligan - Rupture (2025)

The concept of a rupture implies notions of discontinuity, break, interruption. In choosing the works presented on this album, the Nelligan Saxophone Quartet initially wanted to emphasize the differences and oppositions between the styles and artistic approaches of four Quebec composers. Over time, working with the composers and putting the pieces together, other dimensions emerged from the idea of rupture. Commonalities between the works emerged naturally: the desire to explore sound matter, to provoke sensations and to conjure up images. Through their own personal techniques, each composer seeks to express something, to use the universal language of music to communicate. Thus, from one work to the next, the listener is invited on a sonic journey that follows a tortuous, not linear, path. Rather than being interrupted, the path follows the meandering inspiration of four composers who draw on the versatility and virtuosity of the saxophone. From the apparent rupture emanates communion.