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St. Mark Passion : for soloists, male choir, orchestra and soundtrack / Henk Badings
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Male choir and orchestra
Scoring:
recit high ten bar bas 2MK4 2222 3330 timp 2perc cel str soundtrack
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and orchestra
Scoring:
4444 4441 ham.org 2pf str 4sax-solo
Fruit of Desire : for soprano saxophone and symphony orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and orchestra
Scoring:
sax-s-solo 3fl(pic) 3ob(eh) 2cl cl-b 4h 4trp 4trb tb timp perc mar glock vibr pf hp str
Cri et gloire du monde : for soprano saxophone and orchestra, 1995 / Bernard van Beurden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4432 timp 7perc hp str sax-s-solo
composition
Saxophoonconcert : instrumentatie voor symfonieorkest 1952, (1951) / Henk Badings
Other authors:
Badings, Henk
(Orchestrator)
Badings, Henk
(Composer)
Contains:
Allegro
Notturno (Larghetto)
Rondo (Presto)
Description:
Program note (English): The Saxophone concerto was written in the summer of 1951 and a year later instrumented for a small symphony orchestra. It has the usual three-part concerto form with a tempo pattern of fast - slow-fast. The first movement, Allegro, has a main form of which the first thematic group develops from the antagonisms between a heavy, powerful playing orchestra and a more playful lyrical counter motive in the solo part. The second thematic group starts with a tuneful melody played by the soloist and is later taken over by the orchestra. In the final thematic group of the exposition, triplet motives arise from the swerving figures, and the saxophone plays a counterpoint in the exposition against alternatives of the other motives in the orchestra. A shortened and modified reprise concludes the first movement.
The second movement, Notturno, in a larghetto tempo, has a three-part form. After dodecaphonic introduction in which a somewhat improvising cadenza of the solo instrument is noticeable, the first part follows, characterised by a broad melody in the solo instrument, with an accompaniment of string orchestra. In the second part is a dialogue between solo instrument and several groups of the orchestra, especially with sonorous brass instruments. The third part is a variation of the first. The coda is a new form of the twelve-tone introduction melody. The third movement is a Rondo in Presto-tempo. The octotonic rondo theme is played following an introduction by the solo instrument. In the first couplet three muted trumpets play a counter motive.
From the counterpoints in the saxophone a return to the rondo theme develops. The alternative is a variation of the middle part of the Larghetto. A cadenza forms the progress to a modified reoccurrence of the rondo theme and of the first couplet. The coda shows a combination of the rondo theme - now in lydomixolydic - in saxophone and strings, with the alternative theme in trombones and horns and with the theme of the first couplet in three muted trumpets. - HENK BADINGS