It's thrilling to live in an era in which creative musicians have the freedom and courage to cross barriers that had previously been considered impermeable, a time when a wind quintet can play a transcription of a complete Mozart opera, and heavy metal can be arranged for a quartet of bass clarinets, with exhilaratingly fresh results. That kind of spirit of adventure has led the Alliage (Saxophone) Quartett, to record arrangements of Schumann's Piano Quintet and Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
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It's thrilling to live in an era in which creative musicians have the freedom and courage to cross barriers that had previously been considered impermeable, a time when a wind quintet can play a transcription of a complete Mozart opera, and heavy metal can be arranged for a quartet of bass clarinets, with exhilaratingly fresh results. That kind of spirit of adventure has led the Alliage (Saxophone) Quartett, to record arrangements of Schumann's Piano Quintet and Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream in collaboration with pianist Jang Eun Bae. Adolphe Sax (who patented the saxophone in 1843, the same year both these pieces were premiered) dreamed of a time when his instrument would become integrated into the Romantic orchestra, but with a few isolated exceptions, classical composers steered clear of it. Part of the mission of Alliage is to imagine what some nineteenth century repertoire would sound like had composers taken the saxophone as seriously as Adolphe Sax hoped they...
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