Composer Heinrich Schütz, whose works are featured on this album, intended his 1648 collection "Geistliche Chor-Music" to demonstrate good composition without basso continuo, focusing on counterpoint.
Performer Biography
The Ferio Saxophone Quartet, one of the performing ensembles on this album, won the Royal Over-Seas League's Ensemble Competition in 2015 and made its Wigmore Hall debut in 2016.
Compositional Technique
The contrapuntal properties of early music by composers like Schütz make it highly adaptable for new forms, such as being effortlessly transferred to the saxophone.
Composer Biography
Orlande de Lassus, a composer featured on this album, was the most famous European composer of his day, knighted by the pope, and taught both Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli.
Interpretation
This album, "Revoiced," explores the combination of saxophones with a vocal ensemble, building on the idea that the saxophone is the instrument closest to the human voice.
Recording & Production
The album was recorded using 24-bit / 96 kHz technology, which offers a dynamic range up to 48 dB greater and 256 times the resolution of standard 16-bit recordings.
Instruments
The saxophone, an instrument invented two centuries after much of the music on this album was written, is used to replicate the sound of early brass instruments like sackbuts and cornetts.
