SKU: PR.446411060

UPC: 680160096275. 11x14 inches.

Steven Stucky has described the saxophone quartet as surprisingly comparable to the string quartet as a classic chamber music medium, while in the concerto format providing a worthy counterweight to the string orchestra. At times, the saxophones in Music for Saxophones and Strings “whisper, murmur, sigh, sing, squeal, or even scream” as the composer has written in notes about the work. Commissioned for the Raschèr Quartet, the work falls into two main sections. The composer continues that “the opening slow movement is dark, nocturnal, troubled; the language is densely chromatic. Mysterious, barely audible rustlings become increasingly more alarming; creatures cry in the night; and the movement climaxes in a lyric outpouring of melancholy, even tragic character. The music subsides by way of cadenzas for the baritone and tenor saxophone. The second, fast movement arrives almost unnoticed, since at first it too is made up of disconnected fragments — quirky, skittish, playful. There are irregular rhythmic accents, gliding quarter-tone runs, scurrying saxophone figures (suggesting, perhaps, a distant echo the bebop style), and screaming excursions into the altissimo register. Briefly the melancholy of the slow, nocturnal opening returns, before a quick coda leads to an emphatic conclusion.”.

SKU: HL.35030013

ISBN 9781495004360. UPC: 888680033965. 5x5 inches.

1978's hit from the rock band Kansas, with its melancholy melody and philosophical lyrics, is hauntingly arranged here for men's voices, including parts for bass guitar and string quartet. A stunning pop selection that allows your male choir or ensemble to sing beautifully in concert form.

SKU: BT.GOB-000354-010

Czech composer Antonin Dvorak is best-known for his beautiful string-quartets, his symphonies (especially nr.9 'From the New World'), and his Slavonic Dances Op. 46 and 72.
Dutch composer and arrranger Jan Bosveld adapted two dances (nrs. 4 and 7) from his opus 46 to the wind-band medium.
Alternating between the virtuoso and the melancholy, these lovely little pieces for orchestra above all provoke responses of instant recognition with your audiences. Uit de Slavische Dansen Opus 46 bewerkte Jan Bosveld op kleurrijke wijze de 4e en 6e dans.
De weemoed, passie en vreugde straalt af van zijn prachtige muziek, en nu dus ook voor concertband.

Gobelin Music Publications.