Amethyst Quartet - "Six Bagatelles" - Ligeti - Mvt. 3

Northwestern University's Amethyst Quartet earned top honors in spring 2008 by winning the MTNA National Collegiate Chamber Music Competition (Denver, CO), the Coleman-Saunderson Prize for Woodwinds and Brass at the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition (Pasadena, CA), and the Gold Medal of the Winds Division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (South Bend, IN).

Their performance and competition repertoire included David Maslanka's 2006 composition Recitation Book, written for the Masato Kumoi Quartet of Japan, and Salinas's own arrangement of Six Bagatelles by György Ligeti.

Amethyst Quartet members:

Johnny Salinas - Soprano Saxophone
Sean Hurlburt - Alto Saxophone
Luke Gay - Tenor Saxophone
Zachary Pfau - Baritone Saxophone

This video footage comes from their preliminary entry DVD used for the Fischoff Competition.

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• Zachary
• Pfau
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[ItsallaboutTrevor]

does soprano go into the alltisimo register in this piece?

[northwestern21]

No altissimo, as long as your soprano sax has a high G key. Otherwise, you will need to use an altissimo G fingering.

[goingfortheone1]

To ones who said that this is too fast, they should really check out the original piano version, which's tempo is actually closer to this than anything.

[widsith2000]

always reminds me of Deep Purple's Hard Lovin' Man

[bmprice41]

Thank you for such a fine example of this arrangement. This performance is fantastic!

[helenajohnny12]

awesome!!!!

[matchboxmatt]

Why is it that on every good performance of instrumental or choral music on this website there's always one killjoy who criticizes it?

Ten bucks says that not one person on here who criticizes something this good on here has remotely enough talent to even perform the thing.

[flutedivo]

This is awesome artistry and music making. Saxophone playing to die for!! What great colors and vibrancy. I could listen to you guys all day.

[ajwiebe]

This sounds absolutely bang on to me. A critique is completely fine, and probably often welcome by those in the midst of refining their craft. But there is no reason for the voice of your comment.

[ItsallaboutTrevor]

@northwestern21 thanks! does that apply to the other five movements as well?