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Flying Colours

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RM842e Flying Colours Orlovich ALTO SAX/PNO eScore
RM842e Flying Colours Orlovich ALTO SAX/PNO eScore
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Composer: Matthew Orlovich
Composed: 2010 Duration: 12 mins.
Instrumentation: Sax Alto & Piano Level E
ISMN: 979-0-720114-39-2 Catalogue: RM842
Level: E Country: Australia

Flying Colours made its first appearance as a concerto for alto saxophone and concert band. Conducted by Captain Brian O. Walden, the work received its world premiere performance on 7th January, 2011 at the 34th International Saxophone Symposium, Washington DC, USA, with Barry Cockcroft as featured soloist with the United States Navy Band.

At Barry’s request, I arranged the concerto for alto saxophone and piano for performance at the 2011 Australian Clarinet & Saxophone Festival, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

The title of the work is intended to suggest the rapid, free-flowing and often highly chromatic melodies played by the saxophone soloist. The title also reveals something of the inspiration behind the music and my current fascination with all things nautical.

Flying Colours commences with music of a bright and vigorous nature. The strong pulse heard at the introduction is maintained and serves to drive the narrative of the whole work. Weaving in and around the band / piano part, the soloist’s florid melodic lines are composed of ordered, balanced phrases. This is in keeping with the ‘crazy logic’ style of some of my previous works for saxophone in which ‘crazy’ melodic intervals are shaped into ‘logical’ or symmetrical sentences.

I warmly thank Barry Cockcroft and the United States Navy Band for giving the world premiere performance of the work, and also warmly thank Barry Cockcroft and Adam Pinto (rompduo) for their premiere performance of the sax and piano score.

Matthew Orlovich

X Suite (8 movements)

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RM849e X Suite Zadro ALTO SAX/PNO
RM849e X Suite Zadro ALTO SAX/PNO
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Composer: Mark Zadro
Composed: 2009 Duration: 25 mins.
Instrumentation: Sax Alto & Piano Level E
Exam Grade: HSC Saxophone Alto
ISMN: 979-0-720114-46-0 Catalogue: RM849
Level: E Country: Australia

Contents: X Suite, II. Interlude #1, III. Cauldron, IV. Interlude #2, V. Rattle Snake, VI. Voyage, VII. Fire Fly, VIII. Hymn for an Epilogue

Sonata

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RM761e Sonata Lovelock ALTO SAX/PNO
RM761e Sonata Lovelock ALTO SAX/PNO
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Composer: William Lovelock
Composed: 2007 Duration: 16 mins.
Instrumentation: Sax Alto & Piano Level E
Exam Grade: HSC Saxophone Alto
ISMN: 979-0-720109-32-9 Catalogue: RM761
Level: E Country: Australia

Performed by Peter Clinch (saxophone) & Trevor Barnard (Piano)
from the album “The Art of Peter Clinch”  Diversions DDV24120

Fault Lines

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RM785e Fault Lines Goldstein ALTO SAX/PNO
RM785e Fault Lines Goldstein ALTO SAX/PNO
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Composer: Perry Goldstein
Composed: 1998 Duration: 4 mins.
Instrumentation: Sax Alto & Piano Level D
ISMN: 979-0-720109-58-9 Catalogue: RM785
Level: D Country: United States

"Fault Lines"  performed by lithuanian saxophonist Arvydas Kazlauskas and latvian pianist Reinis Zarins.

Le Api

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RM654e Le Api Tse ALTO SAX/PNO
RM654e Le Api Tse ALTO SAX/PNO
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Composer: Kenneth Tse
Composed: 1905 Duration: 5 mins.
Instrumentation: Sax Alto & Piano Level E
ISMN: 979-0-720100-83-8 Catalogue: RM654
Level: E Country: United States

RM654 Le Api

Performed on soprano saxophone by Kenneth Tse

Also available for Soprano Saxophone

Antonio Pasculli was born on October 13th, 1842 in Palermo.  He began his career as a virtuosic oboist at the age of 14 and by the time he was 18, was professor of oboe and English horn at the Regio Conservatorio di Palermo, a position he held until he became blind in 1913.

He was appointed director of the Corpo Municipale di Musica di Palermo in 1879, but due to his advancing blindness he withdrew from active concert life in 1884 and lived until 1924. Pasculli composed numerous fantasies for oboe and orchestra on themes from the operas of Bellini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Rossini and Verdi. His compositions were often considered to be too difficult to be performed and therefore were forgotten by oboists until modern times.

Le Api for oboe and piano was first published in 1905 and was dedicated to the Conservatorio di Musica di Palermo. Although similar to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumble Bee, Le Api was written first, and is part of the three virtuosic studies Pasculli wrote for the oboe. From a postscript to the third study we learn that these were first performed in the big hall of the Conservatorio di musica in Milan on July 14, 1874.

The long legato ties are performed with circular breathing and there is only one place where the player can take a breath (break between phrases) in the entire piece.