Amethyst Quartet - "Recitation Book" - Maslanka - Mvt.2

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.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Amethyst
• Quartet
• Saxophone
• Sax
• Maslanka
• David
• Recitation
• Book
• Johnny
• Salinas
• Sean
• Hurlburt
• Luke
• Gay
• Zachary
• Pfau

[saxassoon]

wheter its entiere ensamble peices or just a small quartet peice like this, Maslanka combines lyrical music, dynamic expressions, and his own unique quirky rythmic patterns to create master peices. Bravo Maslanka.

[lolamyriah]

very meditative

[loquaciouslyme]

Almost? It is the same saxophone feature! Not to say it's not still brilliant though.....

[kruegerson16]

it sounds just like his symphony No.8. In fact, it is almost exactly the same as the saxaphone feature in Movement 2 of the symphony.