Xasax plays Leoš Janáček XASAX

• Leoš Janáček (1854 - 1928): Four Moravian Male Choruses, JW 4/28 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé):
• 1 Janáček: Four Moravian Male Choruses, JW 4/28 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): I. You Know 02:06
• 2 Janáček: Four Moravian Male Choruses, JW 4/28 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): II. Mosquitoes 03:09
• 3 Janáček: Four Moravian Male Choruses, JW 4/28 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): III. The Evening Witch 02:15
• 4 Janáček: Four Moravian Male Choruses, JW 4/28 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): IV. Parting 03:18
• Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé):
• 5 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): I. The Clock of Vivany 00:40
• 6 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): II. When I Sing to Myself 00:55
• 7 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): III. O Jurka, Jurenka 00:46
• 8 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): IV. Maryš, My Maryš 00:51
• 9 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): V. My Lover Is Already Going Away from Me 01:43
• 10 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): VI. The Girl Was Weeding, Weeding Flax 00:26
• 11 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): VII. You Promised to Marry Me 00:20
• 12 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): VIII. Whose Lad Is That Wandering at Night 00:40
• 13 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): IX. Whose Girl Is That on the Hilltop 00:15
• 14 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): X. When I'll Be Lying in the Dark Wood 00:43
• 15 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): XI. Water Is Flowing 00:26
• 16 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): XII. The Clock of Hradčany 00:43
• 17 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): XIII. On the Black Mountain 00:48
• 18 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): XIV. On Javorina 00:25
• 19 Janáček: Fifteen Moravian Folksongs, JW 8/23 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): XV. On the Open Field of Hrušky 00:31
• On an Overgrown Path, Book I, JW 8/17 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé):
• 20 Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I, JW 8/17 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): I. Our Evenings 03:04
• 21 Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I, JW 8/17 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): II. A Blown-Away 03:00
• 22 Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I, JW 8/17 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): III. Come with Us! 01:23
• 23 Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I, JW 8/17 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): IV. The Madonna of Frydek 03:04
• 24 Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I, JW 8/17 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): V. They Chattered Like Swallows 02:24
• 25 Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I, JW 8/17 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): VI. Words Fail! 01:53
• 26 Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I, JW 8/17 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): VII. Good Night! 03:00
• 27 Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I, JW 8/17 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): VIII. Unutterable Anguish 03:34
• 28 Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I, JW 8/17 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): IX. In Tears 02:55
• 29 Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I, JW 8/17 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé): X. The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away! 03:29
• Intimate Sketches:
• 30 Janáček: Intimate Sketches: No. 1, Malá Strana Palace JW 8/31 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé) 00:44
• 31 Janáček: Intimate Sketches: No. 2, Untitled JW 8/27 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé) 00:44
• 32 Janáček: Intimate Sketches: No. 3, Melodie JW 8/26 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé) 00:35
• 33 Janáček: Intimate Sketches: No. 4, Moderato, JW 8/21 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé) 00:59
• 34 Janáček: Intimate Sketches: No 5, Just Blind Fate? JW 8/33/3 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé) 01:10
• 35 Janáček: Intimate Sketches: No. 6, So You Can Never Return JW 8/33/5 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé) 01:06
• 36 Janáček: Intimate Sketches: No. 7, The Golden Ring JW/8/33/12 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé) 00:32
• 37 Janáček: Intimate Sketches: No. 8, I'm Waiting for You! JW/8/33/13 (Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé) 01:20
• Glagolitic Mass, JW 3/9:
• 38 Janáček: Glagolitic Mass, JW 3/9: No. 7, Organ Solo (Postludium) [Arr. For Sax Quartet by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé] (1928 Version) 03:13
• Total Runtime 59:09

Info zu Xasax plays Leoš Janáček

Das erste Album des französisch-schweizerischen Saxofon-Quartetts XASAX für das Label Paraty führt durch das facettenreiche Werk von Leoš Janáček. Die warmen Klängen der Saxofone fangen eine enorme Bandbreite ein: Von den Mährischen Männerchören und Volksliedern über die Klavierstücke aus der Sammlung „Auf verwachsenem Pfade“ und den posthum veröffentlichten Klavierminiaturen „Intime Skizzen“ bis zum Postludium für Orgel aus der „Glagolitischen Messe“. Janáček hat bekanntermaßen nicht für Saxofon komponiert, manches Stück dieser Einspielung könnte Anderes vermuten lassen.

XASAX:
Serge Bertocchi, Saxophon
Jean-Michel Goury, Saxophon
Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, Saxophon
Marcus Weiss, Saxophon

XASAX
Founded in Paris in 1991, after two encounters in Vienna and Rotterdam, since then, the ensemble proposed to widen the repertoiry, the action range and eventually the image of this traditionnal formation of chamber music : the saxophone quartet. On one hand promoting a contemporary repertory still little known (Xenakis, Donatoni, Cage, Sciarrino etc.), commissionning many new pieces for a formation voluntarily mobile and open to all combinations or permutations offered by the large familly of the saxophones, and on the other hand XASAX explores less academic lands such as compositions originating in Jazz or improvised music, as well as in a une re-reading of the «Art of the Fugue» by BACH, of rennaissance franco-flemmish polyphonies, or Ars Subtilior from the XIVth century.

XASAX played in diverse festivals and institutions such as the Konzerthaus, Vienne (Autriche) - Jauna Muzika, Vilnius (Lithuanie) - West Deutscher Rundfunk, Cologne - Festival de Witten - ZKM Karlsruhe (Allemagne) - Musique Action, Vandoeuvre - E.N.A. , Strasbourg - Auditorium des Halles, Paris - Musicavoix, Evreux - Ulrichsberg Festival (Autriche) - Neue Muzik Rümlingen (Suisse) - Institut Cervantes, Toulouse - Festival Meslanges de Printemps, Dijon - Festival 2 days & 2 nights, Odessa (Ukraine) - East-West Kazan (Tatarstan) -Festival Archipel, Genève - Maison des Cultures du Monde, Berlin - Festival d’Automne, Paris - Festival d’Edimbourg - Darmstadt - Chicago - Salzburg - Milano Musica - Abbaye de Royaumont - Contempuls Prague ...

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet