Hi Everyone,
I am starting a recommended classical saxophone CD list that I think everyone would benefit from. It might be quartets, solo, or orchestra.
Habanera Quatuor De Saxophones- Grieg, Glazounov, Dvorak
Habanera Quartuor De Saxophones-L'Engrenage: Features works on the verge of improve and written music
Claude Delangle-Under the Sign of the Sun with the Singapore Symphony. It has Ibert, Tomasi, Ravel, Maurice, Schmitt, Milhaud
Paragon Saxophone Quartet- Tuning In, Features Bach, Pierne, Rameau, Moulds, Cutler, Dove
Paragon Saxophone Quartet-French Classics
Hiroshi Hara-Prelude, Cadence, et Finale, Boutry, Decruck, desenclos, Tanada, Denisov, Sauguet,
Dale Underwood with the Texas Tech Wind Ensemble: Smith, Creston, Nestico, Carvalho, Whitney, Grundman, Borgo.
Dale Underwood Classic Pastiche: Muczynski, Handel, Rueff, Jacobi, Lantier, Tull, Eccles, Whitney.
Mi-Bemol Saxophone Ensemble: Bach, Mozart, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, P.I.
Cory Barnfield-Journey: Lennon, Gotkovsky, Yasinitsky, Golstein, Iturralde, Fry
John Harle-Saxophone Concertos with the St Martins and the Fields Orchestra: Debussy, Glazounov, Ibert, Villa-Lobos, Bennett, Heath
This is just a few of course, this will be updated and if anyone wants to add to the list please do.
Here a few more:
"The Solitary Saxophone" by Claude Delangle: all unaccompanied works for the saxopone including: Sequenzas VIIb and IXb by Luciano Berio, In Freundschaft by Stockhausen, and Tre Pezzi by Giacinto Scelsi. Delange plays soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone on this one.
"Related Characters" by Bill Perconti: includes recordings of the Heiden Sonata, the William Grant Still Romance, and one of the few recordings of The concerto for alto saxophone and brass quintet by Fisher Tull.
"Sonatas for Saxophone" by Arno Bornkamp: includes Gavambodi 2 by Jacques Charpentier and the Hindemith Sonata.
"American Concerto Tribute to Sigurd Rascher" by Lawrence Gwozdz: includes Jephthah by Carl Anton Wirth and Karl Husa's Elegie et Rondo.
"Music for Saxophones" by the Rascher Quartet: it includes XAS by Xenakis.
"DIstances Within Me" by Steven Mauk: includes Distances Within Me" by John Anthony Lennon and the Prelude Cadence and Finale by Alfred Desenclos.
"At Dawning" by David Wright: includes the hot sonate by Erwin Schulhoff and the sonata for alto saxophone and piano by David Williams.
"Edison Denisov" by Claude Delangle: a great recording of the Denisov Sonata.
"Special Hand'ling" by Lawrence Gwozdz: lots of great recording of Handle transcriptions.
