Absil, Jean - Sonata
Opus 115 for alto saxophone & piano
Allegro
The fast shifting harmonies of this core work in the saxophone repertoire sometimes drift towards ragtime though are more often impressionistic with a heightened level of anxiety in the tense cadenza.
Andantino-Scherzando
Here a strange landscape skips by with unusual colours and a constantly troubled mood. The music stops and starts, ebbing and flowing but never settling in one place for any extended period. The unsettled mood yields to the final movement...
Vivo
A repeating motif establishes more obvious development and structure. Short cadenzas are juxtaposed with very rapid passages which run the gamut of the instrument resolving only partly at the final chord.
Allegro
The fast shifting harmonies of this core work in the saxophone repertoire sometimes drift towards ragtime though are more often impressionistic with a heightened level of anxiety in the tense cadenza.
Andantino-Scherzando
Here a strange landscape skips by with unusual colours and a constantly troubled mood. The music stops and starts, ebbing and flowing but never settling in one place for any extended period. The unsettled mood yields to the final movement...
Vivo
A repeating motif establishes more obvious development and structure. Short cadenzas are juxtaposed with very rapid passages which run the gamut of the instrument resolving only partly at the final chord.