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Signum Saxophone Quartet
Blaž Kemperle soprano saxophone
Jacopo Taddei alto saxophone
Alan Lužar tenor saxophone
Guerino Bellarosa baritone saxophone
Johann Sebastian Bach
Italian Concerto, BWV 971
Transcription for saxophone quartet by Katsuki Tochio
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Adagio in G minor
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Philip Glass
1957 – Award Montage from String quartet No. 3 “Mishima”
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Alberto Ginastera
Argentinian Dances
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George Gershwin
Three Preludes
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Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
(Prologue, Something‘s Coming, Tonight, America, Cool, Somewhere, I Feel Pretty, Mambo)
Transcription for saxophone quartet by Sylvain Dedenon
Paolo Marzocchi
Albanian Folksong for saxophone quartet
Chick Corea
Spain
In the right hands, four saxophones can have the same sonic impact, the same attention to detail and the same sinuosity of movement as a full symphony orchestra. And right from their ‘choreographed’ arrangement on stage, standing in a curved line, the four players of Signum breathe new life into any repertoire that is blown through their reeds. Their mastery of dynamics, overall coherence, and skill in transcription, as well as their effortless overcoming of all tonal constrictions, allow them to carve evocative paths through the geographies of musical imagination, carefully reworking and boldly juxtaposing heterogeneous materials in terms of time, context, and origin. Which leads them—and the listener—to surprising results.
