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When Four Voices Go Together Well
Authentic programmes are their trademark. When four artistic personalities with identical musical preferences find each other, as in the case of the Deutsche Saxophon Ensemble, then something extraordinary happens: the programme says it all.
And, because the saxophone can apparently move in all musical genres without restriction, they have not tried to serve each and every musical category, but concentrate exclusively on what can definitively serve to establish the saxophone quartet as a fully accepted medium in classical music.
To realise this aim, the Deutsche Saxophon Ensemble cultivates a subtle sound rich in nuances. In so doing, it is a matter of course that they do not only develop their own interpretations with the help of the original score, but also supply support for this from the field of musicology, through the study of the historical context.
Thus, the Quartet has meanwhile formed an exclusive repertoire covering the music-historical spectrum ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary modern composers. Their uppermost criterion in selecting works for an adaptation of their own is not popularity, but the quality of a composition and/or the possibility of an adaptation which would do justice to the instruments.
This standard is also applied when the ensemble wishes to expand the customary standard literature with new, contemporary works. The creation of these works is usually undertaken in personal contact with the composers as well.
A further segment in the repertoire of the Deutsche Saxophon Ensemble consists of works belonging to the genre of saxophone quartet plus. This makes possible a combination with organ, piano, baritone and orchestra.
The following is a chronological list of the composers represented in the repertoire of the Deutschen Saxophon Ensemble:
Johannes Ockeghem (ca. 1420-1497)
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1613)
John Farmer (1565-1605)
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Henry Purcell (1658-1695)
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Jean Baptiste Singelée (1812-1875)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Isaac Albéniz(1860-1909)
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Alexander Glasunow (1865-1936)
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Gustav Bumcke (1876-1963)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Eugène Bozza (1905-1991)
Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000)
Harald Genzmer (1909-2007)
Jean Martinon (1910-1976)
Erland von Koch (1910-2009)
Fritz Christian Gerhard (1911-1993)
Alfred Desenclos (1912-1971)
Jean Françaix (1912-1997)
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Jürg Baur (1918-2010)
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Wolfgang Hofmann (1922-2003)
Helmut Vogel (1925-1999)
Walter S. Hartley (*1927)
Frank Michael Beyer (1928-2008)
Pedro Iturralde (*1929)
Willy Giefer (*1930)
Eberhard Eyser (*1932)
Dimitri Terzakis (*1938)
Paul Reade (1943-1997)
Thomas Blomenkamp (*1955)
Thierry Escaich (*1965)
Guido Rennert (*1973)
There is a rich source of creative and exciting programme concepts that we develop for you, in accordance with your organisational profile. With appropriate moderation, we then accompany your audience through an extraordinary concert evening.
If so desired, you can also receive detailed texts, based on well-founded musical scholarship, for your programme booklets.