related works
Concertino : for piano, strings and percussion / Adam Lukawski
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
pf perc str
Sketches from Invisible sounds : for saxophone quartet, 1988 / Ted Ponjee
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
4sax
Poème : pour quatre saxophones, 1981 / Jo Sporck
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
4sax
Impuls : voor saxofoonkwartet, 1992 / Jan Felderhof
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
4sax
composition
Humors : for saxophone quartet / Adam Łukawski
Other authors:
Lukawski, Adam
(Composer)
Description:
The title of the piece refers to the ancient proto-medical theory of temperaments in which 4 types of fluids/personalities were reasons for different behaviours in humans. In the work there are 4 characters: sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic and melancholic - each of them playing at their own tempo. They follow each other, by constantly changing the leader, in order to be able to keep the musical work (here: metaphor of the human psyche and body kept in balance) going.
Adam Łukawski