Signum Saxophone Quartet

Signum Saxophone Quartet

Blaž Kemperle soprano saxophone
Jacopo Taddei alto saxophone
Alan Lužar tenor saxophone
David Brand baritone saxophone

Edvard Grieg
from the suite “From Holberg’s Time”, Op 40
transcription for saxophone quartet by Maarten Jense

Viet Cuong
Beggar’s Lace from “Prized Possessions”
for saxophone quartet

Astor Piazzolla
Suite del Angel
transcription by Signum Saxophone Quartet

Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
transcription by Signum Saxophone Quartet

George Gershwin
Suite after themes of Porgy and Bess
transcription by Sylvain Dedenon

Anything but an ordinary quartet: for twenty years the Signum Saxophone Quartet has been demonstrating how the sparkling fusion of four top saxophonists can move freely and rigorously through very different eras, contexts and musical styles. Their passion has led to the creation of original pieces for saxophone quartet as well as new arrangements of orchestral pieces, from baroque to rock. With their choreographed way of playing in a semicircle, the Fab Four of the saxophone can breathe new life into any repertoire, as they will demonstrate with the selection they chose for their return to the Ravenna Festival: the late romanticism of Grieg, the Americans Gershwin and Barber, the Argentinean Piazzolla and the Vietnamese-American composer Viet Cuong.