Metamorphosis by Saxophilia

TRACKS
1.-4. Fred Stride – Metamorphosis
5.-7. Violet Archer – Divertimento
8.-12. Beatrice Ferreira – Nightmare Fragments for Saxophone Quartet
13. Rodney Sharman – Homage to Robert Schumann
14. David Branter – Four Stories

Metamorphosis is a natural phenomenon when speaking of musicians and their music. Melodies and harmonies are transformed through traditional narrative structures, restless and surreal exploration, or following threads of simple curiosity as compositions shift and re-structure themselves before our very ears. Musicians walk on stage or into a recording studio to shed their cocoons and spread their wings on gusts of sound and vibration, entering the ephemeral flow-space that is performance. We experience the world as endless change, and what better way to hold the awareness of that change than through the medium of music, the artform most closely associated with the passage of time.

This collection of original saxophone quartet works by Canadian composers highlights the fluid creativity of our friends and colleagues. The five pieces on this album are characterized by dense counterpoint, rich harmonies, kaleidoscopic rhythms, delicate timbres, and soul-stirring melodies. There is a rich variety of styles and techniques from the different composers, but the unifying element in all the pieces is a striving after the possibilities of expression from the saxophone quartet.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Commissioning funds for Rodney Sharman generously provided by the BC Arts Council and SOCAN Foundation.

Redshift was founded in Vancouver, Canada with a focus on championing the music of contemporary composers.

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