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Grainger: Music for Saxophones

Grainger / Griggs / Holmes / Pierick / Dochnahl Release Date: 12/11/2015
Label: Naxos Catalog #:  Spars Code: n/a
Composer:  Percy Aldridge Grainger ,  Claude Le Jeune ,  Guillaume de Machaut ,  Johann Sebastian Bach  ...  Performer:  Joyce Griggs ,  Casey Dierlam Number of Discs: 1
Length: 0 Hours 50 Mins.

Percy Grainger called the saxophone ‘the world’s finest wind-tone tool, the most voice-like’, and wrote for it a series of fascinating but hitherto little-explored works. These arrangements are special in that, unusually, Grainger largely abandoned his idea of ‘elastic scoring’ and noted specific instrumental configurations. The selections include the music of J.S. Bach, British and Norwegian folksongs, old polyphonic instrumental and vocal music, as well as two original compositions, each indelibly stamped with Grainger’s experiences as pianist, folk-song collector, and proponent of early music. music. Read less