Full Score
SKU:
HL.347384
For Alto
Saxophone and Orchestra
Full Score. Composed
by Kenneth Fuchs. E.B.
Marks. Softcover. 82
pages. Edward B. Marks
Music #MP077008.
Published by Edward B.
Marks Music (HL.347384).
ISBN 9781540095299.
UPC: 840126927290.
11.0x17.0x0.43
inches.
“Kenn
eth Fuchs's fifth Naxos
recording with the London
Symphony Orchestra
conducted by JoAnn
Falletta won the 2018
GRAMMY® Award in the
category Best Classical
Compendium. Among the
works featured on the
album is Rush (Concerto
for Alto Saxophone),
which was commissioned by
Ryan Janus, principal
saxophonist of the United
States Air Force Academy
Band, and a consortium of
saxophonists and ensemble
conductors. The work is
composed in a
two-movement form, each
about seven minutes in
duration, connected by an
extended cadenza for the
saxophone soloist. The
first movement, which
begins with a short
cadenza that introduces
the thematic material of
the work, is a rhapsodic
Adagietto with
transparent textures. The
second movement, which
begins with an extended
cadenza that introduces
blue notes into the
harmonic language, is
cast in the form of a
jazz-inflected
passacaglia with ten
variations and a coda.
Versions for orchestra
and band are available
from the publisher, as
well as a piano
reduction.â€.