Par PIAZZOLLA ASTOR. Transcription pour 4 saxophones de Claude Voirpy. Bordel 1900: Le tango naît à Buenos-Aires en 1882. Les premiers instruments à le jouer sont la guitare et la flûte. Par la suite, s'y ajoutent le piano puis le bandonéon. C'est une musique pleine de grâce et de vivacité: elle donne l'image de la bonne humeur, de la faconde des Françaises, des Italiennes et des Espagnoles qui vivent dans ces bordels, aguichant policiers, voleurs, marins et mauvais garçons qui leur rendent visite. Le tango est gai. Café 1930: C'est une autre époque du tango. On cesse de le danser comme en 1900 et l'on se contente désormais de l'écouter - il devient plus musical, plus romantique aussi. C'est une transformation radicale: mouvement plus lent, harmonies nouvelles, beaucoup de mélancolie. Les orchestres de tango se composent de deux violons, deux bandonéons, un piano et une basse. On chante parfois. Night-club 1960: Cette période pendant laquelle s'accroissent considérablement les échanges internationaux, voit une évolution nouvelle: le Brésil et l'Argentine se retrouvent à Buenos-Aires. Bossa nova et nouveau tango, 'même combat'. Le public accourt dans les night-clubs pour y écouter avec sérieux le nouveau tango. Révolution, profond bouleversement de certaines formes du vieux tango. Concert d'aujourd'hui: La musique de tango rejoint, par certains concepts, la musique nouvelle. Réminiscences de Bartok, Stravinsky et quelques autres sur fond de tango. C'est le tango d'aujourd'hui, le tango de l'avenir... / Niveau : Intermédiaire / classique / Répertoire / 4 Saxophones

Au coeur de l'opéra méconnu Hulda datant de 1894, le compositeur César Franck introduit subtilement 4 saxophones pour soutenir les voix du Choeur des pêcheurs hors scène.Les accords magnifiques de cette page inédite retrouvée récemment à la Bibliothèque Nationale de France, donnent aux saxophones une belle coloration sonore. La charge émotionnelle est au rendez-vous.Dans la présente version de concert, il est possible de remplacer les voix par le piano (ou l'orgue). / 4 Saxophones (Ou Quatuor) Et 1 Ou 2 Pianos

' Jesous ahatonhia ', pour quatuor de saxophones, est une commande de la Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica pour sa saison de concerts ControCanto: Natale in Musica dans la région du Lazio (Italie) en 2013, La pièce a été créée par le Kommandaria Sax Quartet à Rome le 18 Décembre 2013,' Jesous ahatonhia ' (' Jésus est né ') est basée sur un chant de Noël écrit par le missionnaire Jean de Brébeuf en langue huronne en 1641 ou 1642, / 4 Saxophones

as performed by Adele. Par ADELE / GREEN NOAH (Arr.). Adele a fait un retour triomphal au hit-parade avec ce titre aussi émouvant que puissant. Norah Green emploie des textures variées et des envolées dramatiques pour faire de cet arrangement une pièce formidable en concert. / Date parution : 2022-03-15/ Répertoire / 4 Saxophones

Historical information about Händel's Water Music Suites is limited, but certainly these works were intended for two, possibly three, parties given by King George I on the Thames River, London, between 1715 and 1736. Händel and his orchestra played on a barge. Since then the some twenty-two separate original pieces have been organized into three Suites and nicknamed 'Water Music?, each having a separate key and likely corresponding to these river parties. This transcription of Water Music Suite II for saxophone quartet has two purposes: to make this music available to saxophonists for performance and education, and to provide in one volume the entire Suite II. The exception to the latter, because of the limits of endurance, is the exclusion of the short Adagio, a brief interlude between the fi rst two movements. Included though are the Allegro, Hornpipe, Minuet, Lentement, and Bourree. These works were originally meant for an outdoor performance, and one of the original intentions of the saxophone was to play in French military bands, also an open-air purpose. The original scoring of brass, woodwind, and string instruments (but no continuo) transcribe well for saxophones. Matching the ranges of instruments of the original to the saxophone quartet was a primary objective. In addition, this arrangement strives to disperse melodic material to all four saxophones so as to make the arrangement pleasing to all the members of the quartet while providing variety to an audience. Any dynamic, articulation, and tempo markings are to be taken only as suggestions so as to allow interpretation by the performers. The musical study and performance of all styles while using examples of composition and performance that represent excellence is necessary for saxophonists who wish to be well-rounded musicians. For the above reasons saxophonists are urged to listen to recordings of the original orchestration in order to learn and imitate proper interpretation of Baroque style. There are currently a number of excellent recordings of Handel's Suites on period instruments, such as (but not limited to) those by conductors John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, and the ensemble Tafelmusik. The Lewis-Clark State College Saxophone Quartet has for many years enjoyed performing Suite II for concerts, ceremonies and social settings, and I thank Advance Music for the opportunity to bring these great works to the profession. / 4 Saxophones (SATBar)

Michael Nyman is a composer pianist librettist writer musicologist photographer and film-maker whose work encompasses opera concert music and film soundtracks of which The Draughtsman's Contract and The Piano arethe best-known. Since founding the Michael Nyman Band in 1977 which tours the world he has worked with leading film directors and has collaborated with artists such as Mary Kelly Damon Albarn Carsten Nicolai and the recentOscar winning Man on Wire star Phillippe Petit.Songs For Tony for String Quartet was composed in 1993 in memory of Tony Simmons.'I began writing a saxophone quartet on New Year's Eve 1992. Inthe early afternoon of 5th January 1993 I was informed that my friend and business manager Tony Simmons had died after a long and heroic fight against cancer. I immediately sat down and wrote the music which became the fourthsong in what became a 'memorial' quartet. The previously composed music was scrapped as I decided to give each player in turn an 'aria' of his own.The first song is a transcription of an actual song - 'Mozart onMortality' - which I wrote for the Composers Ensemble in the spring of 1992. The text by Mozart himself is all too appropriate: 'I may not see another day'. The second song is adapted from the music for the scene in JaneCampion's film The Piano where the mute Ada (Holly Hunter) pushes her chief means of communication her piano overboard. This film was the last major deal that Tony negotiated on my behalf. The third song a soprano sax solo isbased on a tune I composed some years ago but was saving for a special occasion.' - Michael Nyman

Par RAE JAMES. James Rae's eminently successful tutor Introducing the Saxophone was the first of its kind providing the complete beginner with material in popular styles yet allowing for a sound musical development along traditional lines. Now, complementing the tutor, James Rae has produced these three volumes to introduce the beginner to ensemble playing. The parts are of the same technical level and are written, with hints and tips along the way, to familiarize the beginner with a new set of considerations and become a good team player. easy pieces introducing the various aspects of music making with others all parts are of equal difficulty compatible with Introducing Duets, Trios and Quartets for clarinet especially suited to group teaching ideal material for concerts and examinations/ Recueil / 4 Saxophones

Arrangeur: Jean-Louis Couturier. Par RAMEAU / ARRG COUTURIER JL. 17'45/ Répertoire / 4 Saxophones