Â鶹Éç Singers - Voices and Saxophones
In a live concert from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, the Â鶹Éç Singers are joined by the Rascher Saxophone Quartet to perform music by Tuur, Norgard, Purcell, Ian Wilson and Bach.
Live from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge
Presented by Martin Handley
The Â鶹Éç Singers, conducted by James Morgan, are joined by the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet in music for the unusual, but beguiling, combination of choir and saxophones.
Erkki-Sven Tüür: Meditatio
Nørgård: Wie ein Kind
Henry Purcell: Fantasia no 7 (Z.738)
Ian Wilson: Little Red Fish
8.25 Interval Music
8.45
Knut Nystedt: Immortal Bach
J S Bach: Contrapunctus IV from The Art of Fugue (BWV 1080)
Giya Kancheli: Amao omi
In an unusual musical collaboration, this concert brings together the expert choral forces of the Â鶹Éç Singers, conducted by James Morgan, with the instrumental ones of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet. Founded in 1969 by one of the modern pioneers of the instrument, Sigurd Raschèr, the quartet are renowned for their virtuosity - and a German critic has written "If there were an Olympic discipline for wind playing, the Raschèr Quartet would definitely receive a gold medal." In tonight's wide-ranging programme they give, with the Â鶹Éç Singers, the British premieres of three of the many pieces they have commissioned from living composers. The Estonian Errki-Sven Tuür sets a Latin prayer by St Anselm of Canterbury, Giya Kancheli has based his piece on a variety of sacred texts from his native Georgia, while Belfast composer Ian Wilson sets words by the Austrian Expressionist poet and artist Oscar Kokoschka. Alongside these pieces, the Â鶹Éç Singers perform two contemporary works for unaccompanied voices by Per NørgÃ¥rd and Knut Nystedt, while the Raschèr Quartet demonstrate that four saxophones are just as well suited to the music of the Baroque as to contemporary scores.
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Â鶹Éç Singers - Rehearsing Little Red Fish
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Erkki-Sven Tüür
Meditatio for chorus and saxophone quartet
Conductor: James Morgan Performer: Â鶹Éç Singers Performer: Rascher Saxophone Quartet
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Per Nørgård
Wie ein Kind for chorus
Conductor: James Morgan Performer: Andrew Murgatroyd Performer: Edward Price Performer: Olivia Robinson Performer: Â鶹Éç Singers
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Henry Purcell
Fantazia no. 7 in C minor Z.738 for 4 instruments
Performer: Rascher Saxophone Quartet
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Ian Wilson
Little red fish for chorus and saxophone quartet
Conductor: James Morgan Performer: Elizabeth Poole Performer: Â鶹Éç Singers Performer: Rascher Saxophone Quartet
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Darius Milhaud
Scaramouche - suite, arr. for saxophone/clarinet & pf [orig. 2 pianos]first movement
Performer: Margrit Rahkonen Performer: Pekka Savijoki
- Presto Classical.
- BIS CD 209.
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Paul Hindemith
Konzertstuck for 2 alto saxophones: first movement [1933]
Performer: Carina Rascher Performer: Harry Kinross-white
- Naxos.
- BIS CD 159.
- -17.
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Eric Coates
Saxo-rhapsody for alto saxophone and orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Penny Performer: Kenneth Edge Performer: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Naxos.
- 8.223521.
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Krzysztof Penderecki
Quartet for clarinet and strings: third movement
Performer: Rascher Saxophone Quartet
- Presto Classical.
- BIS CD 1153.
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Knut Nystedt
Immortal Bach for chorus
Conductor: James Morgan Performer: Â鶹Éç Singers
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Contrapunctus IV, arr. for string quartet [from Die Kunst der Fuge]
Performer: Rascher Saxophone Quartet
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Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli
Amao omi for chorus and saxophone quartet
Conductor: James Morgan Performer: Adrian Peacock Performer: Micaela Haslam Performer: Â鶹Éç Singers Performer: Rascher Saxophone Quartet
Broadcast
- Mon 17 Jun 2013 19:30Â鶹Éç Radio 3
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