Ligaphone et Trouvez Votre Son Au Saxophone de David Liebman

L'édition française de Trouvez Votre Son au Saxophone de David Liebmann bénéficie d'un important soutient par la Société Ligaphone. Lorsque Roger Petit a commencé ses recherches sur un nouveau concept de ligature, dont l’aboutissement devait
être la création de la ligature « Universelle », l’esprit d’innovation de la jeune entreprise LIGAPHONE allait
exactement dans le même sens : offrir une plus grande variété de timbres et faciliter l’émission des harmoniques
afin d’accompagner le jeu du musicien qui cherche sa propre signature sonore.

Dès lors, les ligatures LIGAPHONE allaient être reconnues aussi bien pour leurs performances acoustiques que
pour le gain de confort et d’aisance lors du jeu. Selon la finition choisie, le musicien obtiendra un beau son riche,
rond et centré mettant la fondamentale en valeur, ou bien un son brillant et puissant, avec un spectre élargi,
mettant en valeur les harmoniques aiguës.

L’état d’esprit de David Liebmann et de LIGAPHONE Paris vont dans le même sens.

David Liebmann joue et recommande vivement les ligatures LIGAPHONE : « The LIGAPHONE ligatures have a
very unique design which allows much freedom of response for the reed. Highly recommended. » (« Les ligatures
LIGAPHONE présentent un design unique permettant une grande liberté d’expression de l’anche. »)

"Solo de Concours" Opus 15 by Paul-Agricole Génin for saxophone and piano

Musik Fabrik continues the republication of historical 19th century saxophone works with the "Solo de Concours" written by Paul-Agricole Génin for Adolphe Sax's class at the Paris Conservatory.
After a lyrical introduction which makes use of "echo" effects, a pastorale theme
is presented and then treated in variations. The final variation is a virtuosic "valse brillante". The work is available in our saxophone music catalog.

Musik Fabrik continue le re-éditions des œuvres historiques pour le saxophone au 19me siècle avec "Solo de Concours de Paul-Agricole Génin. Cette œuvre était utilisé pour le concours du Conservatoire Impériale de Paris dans la classe d'Adolphe Sax,
à qui l'œuvre est dédiée. Après une introduction lyrique qui utilise les effets d'écho, une danse pastorale
est presentée et puis variée, la variation finale étant une valse brillante.

Ali Ben Sou Alle : Souvenirs de la Chine

Today, I finished up work on this work by Ali Ben Sou Alle, which is my favorite yet in the series. The work is a setting of the Chinese folksong "Loc Tee Kun Tsin" which was one of eight traditional Chinese songs used by Puccini in his opera "Turandot" (it's not the main "Jasmin Flower theme", but is a motif used in the orchestra section and chorus sung to the Emperor at the end of both the First and Second Acts). This harmonization is very different from Puccini's setting, but is (to my ears) probably closer to what one might have heard in China in the 19th century.

The Rondo which follows, in the form of a Waltz, is rather sparsely harmonized at first, but has several dramatic sections which sound remarkably like Schumann. There are then several passages which are rather scherzando. After a dramatic outburst, the Chinese song is briefly quoted again before the abrupt ending using the opening motives of the piece.

I am impressed by the formal unity of the work, the solid piano writing (he must have had a very good pianist with him in China, as opposed to the amateurs which are reported in the Shanghai concert) and the overall effectiveness of the work.

Ali Ben Sou Alle - Souvenirs de L'Ile Maurice

I worked on this one today and it's quite good: very solid formally and quite pleasant to listen to, being much more romantic in conception than classical. The opening theme is a pastorale in 12/8 which is followed by a Rondo-Valse which alternates between a minor theme (rather reminiscent of some of Chopin's Waltzes) and the Pastorale theme which is the subject of a number of brilliant variations. This one is quite the showpiece and could be a nice closing piece to a recital.

As usual, all of these pieces are available on our saxophone music catalogue.