The saxophone is a relatively old instrument, invented about 150 years ago by Adolphe Sax.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Luciano Berio, a composer on this album, loves the saxophone because its roots are largely in the oral tradition of music, like jazz, and it can produce different characters.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Giacinto Scelsi, a composer on this album, was highly critical of Western music's focus on structure, believing it neglected the 'sonorous laws of energy and of life itself'.
Interpretation
Luciano Berio advises young saxophonists to adopt a flexible approach and detach themselves from the 'old French school' of the instrument, which he associates with excessive vibrato and 'bad music'.
Performer Biography
Claude Delangle is the saxophone soloist with Pierre Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain and a professor of saxophone at the Paris Conservatoire.
Recording & Production
Luciano Berio, the composer of two works on this album, preferred Claude Delangle's soprano saxophone version of Sequenza VIIb to his original oboe version.
Performer Biography
Claude Delangle, the saxophonist on this album, received first prizes in saxophone and chamber music from the Paris Conservatoire in 1977 and 1979.
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