Jan Schulte-Bunert - Williams/Nyman -Escapades - 180g 2LP

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Jan Schulte-Bunert - Williams/Nyman -Escapades - 180g 2LP
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Solo Musica - SMLP 186 - 180 gram Vinyl 

This is a fine program which should do much to enlarge and support the position of the saxophone in classical music.

The sonics are rich and detailed… An excellent analog mastering job preserves the utmost fidelity.

, May 2013 The Eshpai is the real find on the album with its interesting harmonic language and stretching of jazz rhythms. This is an album well worth seeking out.

“Escapades” = JOHN WILLIAMS: Escapades for Sax & Orch.; MICHAEL NYMAN: Where the Bee dances for Soprano Sax & Orch.; ANDREI ESHPAI: Konzert for Sax & Orch.; BOB MINTZER: Rhythm of the Americas – Jan Schulte-Bunert, saxophone/ Neue Philharmonie Westfalen/ Heiko Mathias Förster/ with clair-obscur sax quartet (in Mintzer) – Solo Musica GmbH SMLP 186 (2-33⅓ vinyls)

This LP set is quite a surprise; it’s also available on CD at a far lower price (about $58 on vinyl). I wasn’t familiar with the classical saxophonist, but he has won many prizes in Europe and lectures and performs widely on classical saxophone. He also leads a saxophone quartet, clair-obscur, which is heard in the fourth of these four works. Schulte-Bunert has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic since 2002.

This is a fine program which should do much to enlarge and support the position of the saxophone in classical music. John Williams based his Escapades on the score he had written for the 2002 comedy film Catch Me If You Can, about an actual trickster and check forger played by Leonard DiCaprio. This was just one of his over one hundred film scores. Michael Nyman early on rejected serialized music and was one of the first to coin the term minimal music. He uses a continuous rhythmic pulse similar to the beat in pop music, and is known for his many scores for the films of Peter Greenaway. His concerto for soprano sax and orchestra refers both to the little dance the honeybees do to communicate to the hive about a food source, and Nyman’s setting of “Where the Bee Sucks,” from his score for Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books.

Andrei Eshpai hails from one of the outlying Russian republics on the Volga, and studied and teaches at the Moscow Conservatory. He has written many classical concertos for various instruments, including this colorful single-movement work for the saxophone and orchestra. Bob Mintzer is known as a much-recorded reed player and bandleader, but he also is a successful composer and arranger. In his four-movement Rhythm of the Americas for sax quartet and orchestra he deals with the beginnings of American jazz in creating a sort of crossover work. Its movements are: Convergence of French and English, Afro-Caribbean, Jazzical, and Confluence.

The sonics are rich and detailed, even though there is nearly a half hour of music on the last of the four sides. There is plenty of space of detailed notes on both the performers and the music, with the insides of the double-fold album plus the record sleeves.  An excellent analog mastering job preserves the utmost fidelity.—John Sunier Audaum.com

The saxophone was named after the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. Whether as a solo instrument or as part of the orchestra, it seldom appears in concert halls and opera houses today. Nonetheless, before the instrument found its his true home - the world of jazz  - it was to be heard in classical music. Its first prominent appearance was in Georges Bizet's incidental music to Daudet's L'arlésienne in 1872, yet it failed to establish itself in the orchestra. There are however countless chamber works for the saxophone and many concertos for saxophone and orchestra. Three particularly brilliant and virtuosic concertos are presented on this CD.
 
John Williamsis today Hollywood's leading film composer. Escapades for saxophone and orchestra is based on the music to Catch me if you can, the 2002 comedy about a con man starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, who in this film worked with "his" composer John Williams for the twentieth time.
Michael Nymanis one of the most dazzling figures in the post-modern music scene. Where the Bee dances was commissioned by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta and performed on July 13, 1991 during the Cheltenham Music Festival.
Andrei Eshpaiwas born in 1925 the son of a composer and folk song researcher in Russia. He wrote the Saxophone Concerto in 1985/86.
 
The New Philharmonic Orchestra of Westphalia was founded by a merger of two orchestras in the northern Ruhr area in 1996: the Westphalian Symphony Orchestra in Recklinghausen and the Philharmonic Orchestra in Gelsenkirchen.
 
The conductor Heiko Mathias Förster makes regular guest appearances with orchestras all over the world. The Israel Symphony Orchestra, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Prague Symphony Orchestra are only a few of the ensembles Heiko Mathias Förster has conducted in recent years.

 

 

„Escapades” for Saxophone and Orchestra
Music: J. Williams
 
„Where the Bee dances“ for Saxophone and Orchestra
Music: Michael Nyman
 
Konzert for Saxophone and Orchestra
Music: Andrei Eshpai

 

 

 

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