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 for Xasax plays Leoš Janáček

The first album by the Franco-Swiss saxophone quartet XASAX, released on the Paraty label, takes listeners on a journey through the multifaceted works of Leoš Janáček. The warm tones of the saxophones capture an enormous range: From the Moravian Men’s Choirs and folk songs, through the piano pieces from the collection ‘Auf verwachsenem Pfade’ and the posthumously published piano miniatures ‘Intimate Sketches’, to the Postlude for organ from the ‘Glagolitic Mass’. It is well known that Janáček did not compose for the saxophone, though some pieces on this recording might suggest otherwise.

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

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 ...

This album contains no booklet.