John Harle - Saxofone Concertos

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Saxophone Concertos
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
1 Rapsodie for alto saxophone and orchestra 10.08
Jacques Ibert 1890-1962
Concertino da camera for alto saxophone
2 I Allegro con moto 4.23
3 II Larghetto 3.48
4 III Animato molto 4.18
Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887-1959
Fantasia for soprano saxophone and chamber orchestra
5 I Animé 4.38
6 II Lent 2.56
7 III Très anime 2.49
Alexander Glazunov 1865-1930
Concerto in E flat for alto saxophone and string orchestra
8 I Allegro moderato - 4.36
9 II Andante- 4.43
10 III Allegro 4.29
Richard Rodney Bennett b.1936
Concerto for alto saxophone
11 I Molto vivo 6.13
12 II Interlude. Andante 3.38
13 III Allegro - Lento 6.49
Dave Heath b.1956
14 Out of the Cool 6.48
for soprano saxophone and orchestra
71.00
John Harle saxophone
Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner
Recorded 3-5.XII.1990, No.l Studio, Abbey Road, London Producer: John Fraser
Recording Engineer: Mark Vigars Editor: Morris Miller
Design concept: Smith & Milton
Design: Stuart Wilson for WLP C3 Cover painting: Franz Marc
Publishers: Éditions Durand S.A./United Music Publishers Ltd, London (Debussy);
Editions Alphonse Leduc, Paris/United Music Publishers Ltd, London (Ibert, Glazunov);
Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc. (Villa-Lobos); Novello & Co. Ltd (Bennett);
Chester Music Ltd. (Dave Heath)
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The Composer
French composer Claude Debussy entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1872 at the age of ten, and it was originally hoped that he would be able to make a career as a virtuoso pianist. It was composition, however, that Debussy gravitated towards, and the originality and freshness of his approach quickly emerged in his ground-breaking Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune in 1894. In the aftermath of his only opera Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902, Debussy went on to write his mature orchestral works and his boldest experiments with the sonorities of the piano, and during the First World War turned to chamber music to write three of a projected set of six sonatas that mark a new stage in his musical thinking. It was only after naval service in the war that Jacques Ibert was able to complete his studies at the Conservatoire, and in the 1920s and '30s he travelled widely before taking up the post of director of the Académie de France in Rome. This was again interrupted by the outbreak of war, but he returned to Rome in 1946. A prolific composer of dramatic music, including operas and ballets, he also wrote film scores, including that for Orson Welles's Macbeth. Almost exactly Ibert's contemporary, Heitor Villa-Lobos, having trained in his native Brazil, also spent the 1920s travelling in Europe, before returning to Rio de Janeiro where he became the figurehead of Brazilian classical music, blending native and European traditions in a vast body of work. Alexander Glazunov studied with Rimsky-Korsakov, and followed in his teacher s footsteps as director of the St Petersburg Conservatory, but in 1928, under criticism for his conservative approach, moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life. The English-born composer Richard Rodney Bennett has successfully crossed the divide between popular and classical music, and iliade a career as a jazz pianist and composer, while Manchester-born Dave Heath has a background as a professional jazz performer, but as a composer has developed to embrace a broader range of styles.
[color=purple]The Music
The Belgian instrument-maker Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone around 1840, and went on to develop the instrument after his move to Paris in 1842. It quickly found a place not only in French military bands, but in the orchestra as well, in music by Berlioz and Bizet, among others. As a solo instrument, its concert repertory efFectively starts with Debussy, who wrote his Rapsodie to order for Elisa Hall, President of the Boston Orchestrai Club. Debussy evidently found the commission hard to fulfil, and although he started work on it in 1902, it was an unfinished piece that he finally handed over to the performer in 1911. Jean Roger-Ducasse completed the work in 1919, after Debussy's death, and the first performance was given that year in Paris. Glazunov's Concerto and Ibert's Concertino for alto saxophone and 11 instruments were written in 1934 and 1935 respectively for one of the pioneers of classical saxophone playing Sigurd Rascher, although the Ibert was first performed by another great pioneer, Marcel Mule. Glazunov's work respects the traditions of the solo concerto, complete with a dazzling burst of virtuosity in the third movement, but while Ibert s piece and the later Fantasia of 1948 by Villa-Lobos (written for either tenor or soprano, and here played on the latter) are full of the sparky rhythms of mid-century music, neither crosses the line into jazz. Nor does the 1988 Concerto that Richard Rodney Bennett wrote for John Harle - indeed it was hearing Harle's playing that prompted the composer to think of the instrument away from its jazz associations — and it remains for the saxophone version of Dave Heath's Out of the Cool, originally composed for flute in 1978, with its explicit reference to Miles Davis, to play with the instruments jazz connections in a classical context.
The Artist

British saxophonist and composer John Harle was born in Newcastle, and studied at the Royal College of Music in London. As a performer, he has given the premieres of more than 25 concertos written for him, by such composers as Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars, as well as the first performance of Birtwistle s Panie at the Last Night of the Proms in 1995. His style as a composer developed from the uncompromising modernism of the 1970s to a jazz-influenced manner, and as well as numerous concert works, he has written film and television scores for, among other things, Simon Schama s A History of Britain and Sileni Witness. His opera Attici Magick on a libretto by David Pountney, was first performed at the Proms in 1998, and in the 2002 Proms he gave the first performance of his own saxophone concerto Tìie Little Death Machine. A new work for him by Birtwistle is currently in progress, as well as a doublé concerto for cello and saxophone byjohn Tavener.
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