WATER: QUARTET for SAXOPHONES

Composer: 
Gregory Hall
modal tone cluster harmony and stacked thirds
Instrumentation freestyle: 
4 Saxophones Bb sop, Eb alto, Bb tenor, Eb bari
Year Authored: 
2006
Duration (min): 
30
Alternate Title: 
WATER: QUARTET for SAXOPHONES
Movements-Titles: 
Fantasy
Movements-Titles: 
Scherzo
Movements-Titles: 
Mountain
Movements-Titles: 
Fugues
Recording: 
New Hudson Saxophone Quartet Ravello RR7805
"Bathed in soft light this very extensive work declares a lavishly stocked imagination which is even more grounded in melody. It also has sufficient graininess to side-step blandness and to sustain the invention over such a long span. The Mountain movement has something of the Copland outdoor air. The final Fugue has a gawky stagger as a prelude to Hall’s hard-wired leaning towards sophisticated metropolitan melody draws him back into a rapturous meditation. That pecking staccato ends the piece with a propulsion that references William Schuman. "  --Rob Barnet, MusicWeb International

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Publisher: 
ACA
Publisher URL: 
American Composers Alliance

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