Concert for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra
EThis is a solo concerto with many reminiscences and Baroque stereotypes, but presented in a somewhat more modern, contemporary manner.
The concerto is for alto saxophone, string orchestra, harpsichord, and timpani. This ensemble is somewhat peculiar and unusual in using the saxophone as the solo instrument.
Concert for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra
1-Rapsodia
The beginning should be the end, but it is not. Almost like a cadenza of the concerto, this rhapsody appears. It serves as a prelude or introduction that sounds almost in the style of an improvisation that takes place before the concerto proper.
2-Allegro
An intense movement with a strongly Baroque aroma that, following the most customary form of a first movement of a solo concerto, reveals the great opposition and contrast of sound masses between the soloist and the orchestra, while imparting a certain virtuosity without neglecting expressiveness. A delightful mixture.
3-Adagio
A more expressive movement, at once emotional and evocative. The deepest feelings unfold here. It is also the movement with the greatest ornamentation and musical embellishment, while remaining contrasting between its sections and themes.
4-Vivace
Without neglecting expressiveness, another movement presents itself to us, once again very intense, sustained by a highly contrapuntal language and by very abrupt shifts of sound masses that lead us to the soloist’s extensive cadenza and reconnect us with the rhapsody or first movement. Afterwards, only the long‑awaited conclusion of the concerto will follow, with a virtuosic coda in the purest Romantic style.
