Jack Brymer premièred this work originally called 'Sopsonare' in 1973 at the American School at St. John's Wood playing on Michael Krein's Selmer soprano saxophone. This Sonata the first composition for saxophone by Colin Cowles was inspired by the acquisition of a soprano saxophone whilst teaching in Hemel Hempstead in the early 1970s. Although having played on a simple system soprano as a boy (an instrument borrowed from and taught him by his father) this re-introduction to the instrument was to kindle a life-long love of the complete saxophone family and the composition of an almost endless 'library' of works for it at all levels. It was also at a time whenthe composers had made recent acquaintance with the eminent saxophonist Peter Ripper and had been introduced to the saxophone quartet by the recently formed London Saxophone Quartet whose leader Paul Harvey was to play this Sonata and the Elegy for Soprano Saxophone and String Orchestra. He in fact premiered the latter work which Jack Brymer then played in public on a number of occasions. It was recorded by Peter Ripper with the composer at the piano at the BBC Maida Vale Studios. It is a totally non-esoteric work but like so much of the composer's music it is fun and approachable bearing repetition without becoming tedious. The composer has always favoured the Bb saxophones (soprano and tenor) which is reflected by his output. Of particular note are: • Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra• In Memoriam for Tenor Saxophone and String Orchestra• Sonata for Tenor Saxophone and Piano • Three Bala Sketches for Tenor Saxophone and Piano. This Sonata for Soprano Saxophone and Piano and the Elegy for Soprano Saxophone and Strings are particular favourites of the composer.

Soprano Saxophone et Piano. Par DEFAYE JEAN-MICHEL. / Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

Par PIGNOT YVES. Cette sonate a été écrite à la demande de Stéphane Sordet, professeur de saxophone au Conservatoire de Brest./ Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

Shadowplay pour saxophone soprano et piano a été commandé par Audrey Innes. L'oeuvre a été créée à la World Saxophone Congress XVI à St. Andrews en Juillet 2012 et joué par Rocio Banyuls Bertomeu (saxophone soprano) et Audrey Innes (piano). / Saxophone Soprano Et Piano

La référence AL27487 de l'éditeur Leduc dont l'auteur célèbre est Feld, qui a pour titre Sonate, a été écrite et composée pour Saxophone et plus particulièrement pour Saxophone Soprano Et Piano. Cette partition musicale appartient à la catégorie Classique. / Saxophone Soprano Et Piano / Partition

for soprano saxophone and chamber orchestra. Par BRYARS GAVIN. The piece is dedicated to John Harle and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, who commissioned it with funds made available by South West Arts. It makes use of the saxophone's ability to play long expressive melodic passages, and was written too, having seen the Sinfonietta perform, with some of its individual players in mind. Although played without a break, the piece does fall into a number of recognisable sections delineated by a change of tempo, or by a substantial shift of texture. For example, shortly before the end, there is a passage where the saxophone is accompanied by 21 solo strings - the entire string section playing divisi, followed by a coda, which contains simultaneous 'laments' (for saxophone, cor anglais, French horn, and solo violin). The Green Ray is the title of a romantic novel by Jules Verne, set in the West of Scotland, in which a peculiar atmospheric phenomenon plays the key part. A 'green ray' is seen at sunset in certain latitudes, and in certain coastal conditions, just as the sun touches the horizon and, for a brief moment, the orange sun emits a green ray of light. In the Verne story the simultaneous sighting of the ray will seal a couple's love, and the attempts of a young man to do this are constantly frustrated (by sudden clouds, by a yacht passing along the horizon, and so on). This part of Western Scotland is also the place where certain piping traditions originated. Male pipers practised in one cave on the seashore, females in another ( the 'piper's cave' and the 'pigeon's cave'). As they played their laments at twilight a triangulation, similar to that in the Verne story (male-ray-female) may well have occurred without the knowledge of the innocent participants, hence the sequence of simultaneous laments in the coda. On one occasion I witnessed the green ray in Southern California. I was returning along the coast after having climbed up Mt. Tecate, on the top of which is a house, now empty, where Evans-Wentz translated The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Gavin Bryars./ Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

Par NANTE ALEX. Le rapport entre l'allure générale apparemment improvisatoire et une métrique incontournable fait de ces Trois nocturnes une excellente introduction, à l'univers de Claude Debussy. Cette oeuvre s'adresse aux élèves de 3e cycle des conservatoires régionaux qui recherchent une maîtrise très subtile des dynamiques au saxophone soprano. Ils auront plaisir à développer une véritable relation de musique de chambre avec leur partenaire pianiste pour acquérir calme et vigilance dans une conscience commune de l'équilibre des tempos. Claude Delangle / Niveau : 3ème Cycle / Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

À moins de sept minutes de longueur, ce travail techniquement difficile a fait un usage efficace de nature puissante et expressive de la sax soprano tout en équilibre avec succès matériel énergique et exubérant. Divisé en deux sections principales, la première permet les deux instrumentistes d'afficher les éléments de virtuosité et d'agilité tandis que la seconde explore les instruments plus de qualités lyriques. Le répertoire de sax soprano treuils. / Saxophone Soprano Et Piano

Par DOBBINS BILL. Cette oeuvre combine, assoeie les éléments musicaux des deux traditions contemporaines 'classique” et jazz. Elle fut écrite, en partie, avec l'intention de stimuler l'intérêt grandissant de franchir les frontières entre le jazz et la musique classique, et d'encourager les musiciens créatifs à devenir familier avec le vocabulaire et l'éxécution musicale des deux musiques./ Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

Par LONDEIX JEAN-MARIE. / Niveau : Débutant / classique / Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

Sonata in three movements. Par LIEBMAN DAVID. Sonata In Three Movements/ Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano