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Saxophone Concerto
A saxophone concerto is a type of musical composition composed for a solo saxophone player accompanied by a large ensemble, such as a concert band or orchestra. Notable examples * Kōmei Abe ** Divertimento for Alto Saxophone (1951) * John Adams ** Saxophone Concerto (2013) * John Corigliano ** ''Triathlon'' for Saxophonist and Orchestra (2020) * Alexander Glazunov ** Saxophone Concerto (1934) * Jennifer Higdon ** Saxophone Concerto (2007) * Jacques Ibert ** Concertino da camera (1935) * Michael Kamen ** Saxophone Concerto (1989) * Lars-Erik Larsson ** Saxophone Concerto (1934) * James MacMillan ** Saxophone Concerto (2017) * Augusta Read Thomas ** '' Hemke Concerto'' (2013) * Mark-Anthony Turnage ** ''Your Rockaby ''Your Rockaby'' is a concerto for soprano saxophone and orchestra written by the British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. It was completed in 1993. Background ''Your Rockaby'' was born after Turnage had spent some time in Tanglewood and as a c ...'' (1993) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Ibert
Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of 20th-century classical music, classical music. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I. Ibert pursued a successful composing career, writing (sometimes in collaboration with other composers) seven operas, five ballets, incidental music for plays and films, works for piano solo, choral works, and chamber music. He is probably best remembered for his orchestral works including ''Divertissement (Ibert), Divertissement'' (1930) and ''Escales (Ibert), Escales'' (1922). As a composer, Ibert did not attach himself to any of the prevalent genres of music of his time, and has been described as an eclectic. This is seen even in his best-known pieces: ''Divertissement'' for small orchestra is lighthearted, even fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Your Rockaby
''Your Rockaby'' is a concerto for soprano saxophone and orchestra written by the British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. It was completed in 1993. Background ''Your Rockaby'' was born after Turnage had spent some time in Tanglewood and as a composer-in-association at the CBSO. Even though he explored composing for the saxophone in his first opera, ''Greek'', this was the first time Turnage wrote a concertante piece for saxophone. The concerto loosely bases its rhythmic structure on Samuel Beckett's play '' Rockaby''. However, the link between these two works is only readily apparent thanks to their title. Since the piece is not scored for any voices, it includes no text from the play. The concerto was a BBC commission, composed between November 1992 and November 1993, with a hiatus between February and September 1993. The work was completed in Arsenal. It was first performed on February 23, 1994, at the Royal Festival Hall in London, by Martin Robertson at the soprano saxophon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Mark-Anthony Turnage (born 10 June 1960) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Life and career Mark-Anthony Turnage was born in Corringham, Essex on 10 June 1960. Turnage was the eldest of three children. His parents were lovers of classical music and were enthusiastic Pentecostal Christians. He began composing at age nine and at fourteen began studying at the junior section of the Royal College of Music. His initial musical studies were with Oliver Knussen, John Lambert (composer), John Lambert, and later with Gunther Schuller. He also has been strongly influenced by jazz, in particular by the work of Miles Davis, and has composed works featuring jazz performers, including John Scofield, Peter Erskine, John Patitucci, and Joe Lovano. Turnage has composed numerous orchestral and chamber music, chamber works, and three full-length operas. ''Greek (opera), Greek'', composed with the encouragement of Hans Werner Henze and first performed in 1988 at the Munich B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemke Concerto
The ''Hemke Concerto "Prisms of Light"'' is a concerto for solo alto saxophone and orchestra by the American composer Augusta Read Thomas. The work was commissioned as a retirement gift for the saxophonist and educator Frederick Hemke by many of his students and colleagues. It was given its world premiere by Hemke and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra under the conductor William Boughton in New Haven, Connecticut, on February 27, 2014. A version for band was premiered by Taimur Sullivan and the Navy Band at the 2019 International Saxophone Symposium. Structure The ''Hemke Concerto'' has a duration of roughly 22 minutes and is composed in four connected Movement (music), movements: #Illuminations #Sunrise Ballad #Chasing Radiance #Solar Rings Instrumentation The work is scored for solo alto saxophone and an orchestra comprising piccolo, two Western concert flute, flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, bassoon, two French horn, horns, two trumpets, trombone, bass trombone, tuba, four per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusta Read Thomas
Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer and University Professor of Composition in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, where she is also director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition. Biography Thomas studied composition with Oliver Knussen at the Tanglewood Music Center; Jacob Druckman at Yale University; Alan Stout and Bill Karlins at Northwestern University; and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College in 1990–91 and a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University from 1991 to 1994. Thomas was the longest-serving Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, from 1997 to 2006. This residency culminated in the premiere of ''Astral Canticle'' for solo flute, solo violin, and orchestra, a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Music. During her residency, Thomas premiered nine commissioned orchestral works and helped establish the Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boosey & Hawkes
Boosey & Hawkes is a British Music publisher (sheet music), music publisher, purported to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world. Until 2003, it was also a major manufacturer of brass instrument, brass, string instrument, string and woodwind instrument, woodwind musical instruments. Formed in 1930 through the merger of two well-established British music businesses, Boosey & Hawkes controls the copyright to much major 20th-century music, including works by Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Sergei Prokofiev, and Igor Stravinsky. It also publishes many prominent contemporary composers, including John Adams (composer), John Adams, Karl Jenkins, James MacMillan, Mark-Anthony Turnage, and Steve Reich. With subsidiaries in Berlin and New York City, New York, the company also sells sheet music via its online shop. History Pre-merger Boosey & Hawkes was founded in 1930 through the merger of two respected music companies, Boosey & Company a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxophone Concerto (MacMillan)
The Saxophone Concerto is a composition for soprano saxophone and string orchestra by the Scottish composer James MacMillan. The work was composed in 2017 on a commission from Perth Concert Hall, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and the Aurora Orchestra. Its world premiere was given by the Australian saxophonist Amy Dickson and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Joseph Swensen at Perth Concert Hall on 11 April 2018. Composition The concerto lasts about 15 minutes and is cast in three movements. The piece was inspired by elements of Scottish folk music. Each movement is thus named for the various forms of traditional Scottish music on which it's based: #March, Strathspey and Reel #Gaelic Psalm #Jigs Reception Reviewing the world premiere, Miranda Heggie of ''The Arts Desk'' praised the concerto, writing, "It's as intricate as it is concise. The depth to the architecture of James MacMillan's Saxophone Concerto ..is quite astounding, and all the more so for being packed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James MacMillan
Sir James Loy MacMillan, TOSD (born 16 July 1959) is a Scottish classical composer and conductor. Early life MacMillan was born at Kilwinning, in North Ayrshire, but lived in the East Ayrshire town of Cumnock until 1977. His father is James MacMillan, a carpenter, and his mother is Ellen MacMillan (née Loy). He studied composition at the University of Edinburgh with Rita McAllister and Kenneth Leighton, and at Durham University with John Casken, where he gained an undergraduate degree and then a PhD degree in 1987. At Durham he was a member of the College of St Hild and St Bede as an undergraduate student and the Graduate Society while studying for his PhD. He was a lecturer in music at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1986 to 1988. After his studies, MacMillan returned to Scotland, composing prolifically, and becoming Associate Composer with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, often working on education projects. As a young man he was briefly a member of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxophone Concerto (Larsson)
The Saxophone Concerto, Op. 14, is a three-movement concertante composition for alto saxophone and string orchestra written in 1934 by the Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson. The piece premiered on 27 November 1934 in Norrköping, Sweden, with conducting the Norrköping Orchestral Association. The soloist was the German-born American virtuoso Sigurd Raschèr, its dedicatee, whom Larsson had consulted during the compositional process; as such, the concerto incorporated several Raschèr's pioneering techniques—"highly personal tricks and devices". Because the Saxophone Concerto proved too difficult for most soloists (and was therefore oft-neglected), Larsson "simplified" it in the early 1980s to make it more accessible. Structure The Saxophone Concerto is in three movements. They are as follows: Instrumentation The Saxophone Concertis scoredthe following instruments: *Soloist: Alto saxophone (in E) *Strings: violins, violas, cellos, and double basses published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars-Erik Larsson
Lars-Erik Vilner Larsson (15 May 190827 December 1986) was a Swedish composer, conductor, radio producer, and educator. He wrote three of the most popular works (each a suite) in Swedish art music: ''A Winter's Tale'' (; 1937–1938), the '' Pastoral Suite'' (; 1938), and '' God in Disguise'' (; 1940). Other notable works by Larsson include three symphonies, a sinfonietta, and numerous concertante works. Biography Larsson was born in Åkarp in 1908, the son of a factory worker and a nurse. He studied with Ellberg at the Stockholm Conservatory (1925–1929) and with Alban Berg and Fritz Reuter in Vienna and Leipzig (1929–1930), then worked for Swedish Radio and taught at the Stockholm Conservatory (1947–1959) and Uppsala University, where he held the position as Director musices (1961–1966). One of his pupils was composer Hans Eklund. His style as a composer is eclectic, ranging from the late Romantic to techniques derived from Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-note system, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxophone Concerto (Kamen)
The Concerto for Saxophone is a 1989 composition for solo alto saxophone and orchestra written by the American composer Michael Kamen for the saxophonist David Sanborn, to whom it is dedicated. The work is cast in three numbered movements and has a performance duration of roughly 28 minutes. History Kamen composed the concerto in 1989 for his friend and longtime collaborator David Sanborn, with whom he had worked on numerous film scores. Kamen produced a premiere recording of the piece, performed by Sanborn and the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer, which was released through Warner Bros. Records in 1990. Despite being released on album, the score to the concerto remained unpublished until long after Kamen's death in 2003. In the early 2010s, however, the Australian saxophonist Amy Dickson became interested in performing the work and contacted the composer's daughter, who located the original handwritten manuscript. After checking the manuscript against the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
