McKenzie Sawers Duo - After the Tryst: New Music for Saxophone and Piano (2018) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Caliban
02. After the Tryst (Arr. Gerard McChrystal)
03. Sketches from a Bagpiper’s Album: 1. Salute
04. Sketches from a Bagpiper’s Album: 2. Nocturne
05. Sketches from a Bagpiper’s Album: 3. Lament, over the sea
06. Miserere Paraphrase
07. Slow Airs and March
08. Fracture
09. Drive
10. Mein blaues Klavier
11. Shaping the Curve
12. Bob



Sue McKenzie and Ingrid Sawers, leading advocates of the rapidly growing repertory for soprano saxophone and piano, make their second Delphian outing with a survey of some of its recent British highlights. James MacMillan’s poignant lyricism gives way to contained ecstasy, then increasingly unfettered vitality, in a pair of seminal works by Michael Nyman. In evocative miniature dramas by Sally Beamish and Judith Weir the instrument gives voice respectively to the half-human, half-spirit nature of Shakespeare’s Caliban and to the life and death of a condemned Scottish bagpiper.

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