Saxophone Ensembles Concert

PROGRAM

Quartet 1

Saxophone Quartet (1932)

Alexander Glazunov(1865-1936)

I. Partie

Petit Quatuor pour Saxophones (1935)

Jean Françaix (1912-1997)

I. Gaguenardise

II. Cabtitlène

Kun Huang, soprano saxophone
Chun Wang, alto saxophone 
Dylan Windsor, tenor saxophone
Adrian Leung, baritone saxophone

Quartet 2

Variations Saxophoniques pour Quatuor de Saxophones (1939)

Fernande Decruck (1896-1954)

I. Andante espressivo

II. Stesso Tempo, molto espressivo e sostenuto

III. Allegretto scherzando 

IV. Come prima (con flessibilita, senza rigore)

V. Allegro moderato energico 

VI. Allegro ma non troppo

VII. Lento espressivo (molto cantando)

VIII. Tempo flessibile e vivo di filatosa

IX. Agitato e tumultuoso

X. Moderato e senza rigore, molto espressivo

XI. Moderato senza lentezza

XII. Fugue – Allegro moderato con ritmo

Nicole Carson, soprano saxophone
Lovepreet Swaich, alto saxophone 
Aidan Wong, tenor saxophone
Hei Nam Yeung, baritone saxophone

Quartet 3

Tango Virtuoso (1991)

Thierry Escaich (b. 1965)

Saxophone Quartet (1995)

Philip Glass (b. 1937)

I.

II. 

Kannan Bloor, soprano saxophone
Min Gu Kang, alto saxophone 
Blake Smith, tenor saxophone
Yunfei Xie, baritone saxophone

Quartet 4

String Quartet No. 12 in F major (“American”), Op. 96(1893)

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Peigeng Han, soprano saxophone
Chantelle Tom-Ying, alto saxophone 
Charlotte Chau, tenor saxophone
Kun Huang, baritone saxophone

Serenade for Winds, Cello, and Double Bass in D minor, Op. 44(1878)

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

I. Moderato, quasi marcia

II. Minuetto – Tempo di minuetto

III. Andante con moto

IV. Finale: Allegro molto

Yunfei Xie & Peigeng Han, soprano saxophone
Chantelle Tom-Ying & Nicole Carson, alto saxophone
Kannan Bloor, Charlotte Chau, & Lovepreet Swaich, tenor saxophone
Kun Huang & Adrian Leung, baritone saxophone
Min Gu Kang, bass saxophone

The Saxophone Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 109 (1934)

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)

Wallace Halladay, conductor
Kannan Bloor, alto saxophone solo
Yunfei Xie, Peigeng Han, & Nicole Carson, soprano saxophone
Charlotte Chau, Chun Wang, & Aidan Wong, alto saxophone
Blake Smith, Dylan Windsor, & Lovepreet Swaich, tenor saxophone
Kun Huang & Yeung Hei Nam, baritone saxophone
Min Gu Kang, bass saxophone