Prélude Cadence Et Finale is a piece for Alto Saxophone and Piano written by Alfred Desenclos in 1956 as a Paris Conservatoire Contest piece. Dedicated to Marcel Mule the famous French Saxophonist Prélude Cadence et Finale is divided into three parts and presents many compositional techniques characteristic of the Impressionist period. Prélude the first section introduces recurring rhythmic parts and develops themes that will reappear throughout the piece. The second section Cadence corresponds to a dynamic Saxophone cadenza. The Finale is quite dramatic and uses some of the elementsthat previously appeared in the piece. Alfred Desenclos (1912-1961) is a French Composer who won the Prix de Rome in 1942. He also composed masses such as Messe de Requiem and other pieces for Double Bass Harp Flute Trumpet or French Horn.

Pour Alto Saxophone et Piano-Born to an Italian father and a French mother Eugène Bozza (1905-1991) divided his music studies between the Academia Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Conservatoire de Paris where he was taught by Henri Büsser and Henri Rabaud. His chamber music compositions reveal a marked predilection for wind instruments as reflected in Fantaisie pastorale for oboe and piano (1939) and New-Orléans for bass saxhorn and piano (1944). During his stay a few years earlier at the Villa Medici in Rome (1936) Bozza had written his Aria Pour Saxophone Alto Et Piano – a free adaptation of the third movement of JohannSebastian Bach’s Organ Pastorale in F major BWV 590. This expansive and nostalgic melody which unfolds over a regular meter has become one of the most widely played Saxo­phone pieces in the world. Having enjoyed such success Éditions Leduc has decided to supplement its republication with an audio version that will enable saxo­phonists to carry out “full-scale” practice.