Paul Creston Saxophone Sonata Program Notes
Creston Sonata for Alto Saxophone. Pedro iturralde - pequena czarda para sax alto y piano. Concerto-paul Creston-para Saxo Alto y Orquesta-saxo Alto. Paul Creston's Sonata for saxophone and piano, Op. 19, is an early work, composed in 1939, just a half dozen or so years after Creston really committed himself to a. List of concert works for saxophone. Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (2000). —Paul Creston; Saxophone Quartet No.
's Sonata for saxophone and piano, Op. 19, is an early work, composed in 1939, just a half dozen or so years after really committed himself to a career writing music. (Recognition came speedily to: he earned himself a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1938!) The work is written for E flat saxophone and has three movements, the headings of which are in common-sense English, as espoused by a handful of American composers in the 1930s and '40s, rather than the traditional Italian. Movement 1 is marked 'With vigor' and is appropriately filled with vivacious rhythms; short, pointed gestures are balanced against long legato lines, both types of material having been built using 's usual richly chromatic, thickly harmonized tonal idiom. 'With tranquility,' the second movement, is a lovely A major instrumental song in 5/4 time, while 'With gaiety,' the D major finale, is crisp and decisive, but not necessarily loud. In the finale, a wonderfully greasy central melodic episode (marked 'smooth') slows things down for a while. Parts/Movements.
Creston Saxophone Sonata Program Notes
With vigor. With tranquility. With gaiety Appears On.