Par KULENTY HANNA. I composed Aisthetikos Duo for soprano saxophone and piano immediately after Aisthetikos for soprano saxophone, piano and orchestra. I hit on the idea of preparing a work that could be performed more often. I was approached with a request to write such a version of Aisthetikos by its first performers: Magdalena and Bartlomiej Dus. A composition for two soloists and orchestra is no simple matter, and concert performances need a lot of preparation, while it is just easier for a duet. The soloists’ parts are slightly modified in the area of the orchestra part, but it is essentially the same work, written in the composition technique I call musique surréalistique, which I have been using for several years. It involves the overlapping of several interacting musical worlds, expanding over time. Hanna Kulenty translated by John Comber. / Date parution : 2022-11-08/ Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

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

Par ROKITA LIONEL. Oeuvre imposée au concours de Saxophone Parisien (3e édition) Pièce pour saxophone soprano ou ténor et piano collection Arc en Ciel / Niveau : Intermédiaire / classique / Répertoire / Saxophone 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 : Elémentaire / classique / Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

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

Fantasy after Mendelssohn. Par WELCHER DAN. / Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

Par GASPARIAN GERARD. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / classique / Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

Par LAFERRIERE ST.. / Niveau : Elémentaire / classique / Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

Par PIAZZOLLA ASTOR. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / classique / Répertoire / Saxophone en Sib et Piano