The album's concept, 'Connecting and Breaking,' explores how saxophonists repurpose existing repertoire for other instruments while encouraging new compositions tailored for the saxophone quartet.
Performer Biography
Project Fusion, formed by graduates of the Eastman School of Music, won the Gold Medal at the 40th Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and the Grand Prize at the 6th Plowman International Chamber Music Competition.
Compositional Technique
David Maslanka's Recitation Book is an amalgamation of musical and spiritual clues, rather than a traditional composition, arrangement, transcription, or collage.
Composition History
Alexander Glazunov, a former prodigy nearing 70, was inspired to compose his Saxophone Quartet and a subsequent saxophone concerto after becoming infatuated with the instrument during his exile in Paris.
Compositional Technique
Glazunov's Saxophone Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 109, has a symphonic scope and includes a theme with five variations at its core, similar to his Sixth Symphony.
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