Amethyst Quartet - "Six Bagatelles" - Ligeti - Mvt. 1

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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• Northwestern

[MarksSax]

Damn Johnny...that's some bad ass soprano playing.

[RandomSaxGuy]

For the most part it sounds great, but why did you decide to add slap articulations to the bari part(this goes for the entire piece)?

[Brewcholo]

@RandomSaxGuy Especially the last note!

[polszik]

it's like musica ricercata's third movement

[JylesM]

Why did the baritone player slap tongue the last note? The original part would never have called for that, whether you're looking at the woodwind quintet or piano/organ version.....

[MarksSax]

btw...just wondering...what are you using for alt. D on sop? ( from alt. A... "1-3| tc" ?)

[chazums1898]

you mean, as opposed to piano?

[jkjimmy]

@somespongebobfan uhhhhh wtf?

[saxburns]

Ligeti condoned this arrangement, originally done by the Habanera Saxophone Quartet

[ohlordbabyjesus]

This literally enraged me. Arranged for saxophones? Blasphemy!

[dressedtosmellgood]

i liked that arrangement.