Discography
Order Nomber: SRL4-09065 Spektral-Records
Series: Spektral Classics
Internet: www.spektral-records.de
"All About Fugues"
The CD programme recorded under this title is the result of the extraordinary and consistently pursued quartet philosophy of the Deutsche Saxophon Ensemble.
Originating in their profound conviction that the saxophone in the formation with soprano, alto, tenor and baritone, now at the beginning of the 21st century at the latest, is the preferred choice for lending a new transparency to polyphonic structures, Nicole Schillings, Monika Leufgen, Katharina Stashik and Michael Ruf open up musical worlds previously unknown to the instrument.
Making exclusive use of their own adaptations of contrapuntal masterworks, they are, for the first time, reworking nearly the entire German musical tradition with the youngest of all musical instruments.
And that's a good thing, for the result is amazing - one wishes that this instrument had already been invented in Bach's day. What a wonderful medium all those composers would have had, and what an important position in the classical world would the saxophone quartet, in particular, have meanwhile forged for itself?