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October 26, 2023, 6pm
Pressburg Saxophone Quartet
Andrej Simančuk — alto saxophone
Silvia Macejová — alto saxophone
Ján Gašpárek — tenor saxophone
Ladislav Fančovič — baritone saxophone
MUSICAL PROGRAMME
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata for piano K.87 (edited by Andreas van Zoelen)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fuga BWV 877 (edited by Ladislav Fančovič)
Faustin Jeanjean – Maurice Jeanjean: Saxophone Quartet
Tadeáš Salva: Saxofoniáda
Marián Lejava: SaxArt (Etude No.1 for saxophone quartet)
Peter Zagar: Saxophone Quartet (premiere)
Pascal Manolios: Umbra
Pressburg Saxophone Quartet was founded in 2014 by the pianist, saxophone player and arranger Ladislav Fančovič. They perform various musical genres, including classical music, ragtime and hot-jazz of the 1920s. Pressburg Saxophone Quartet (before 2020 known as Saxophone Syncopators) perform mostly in Slovakia and neighbouring countries, but they also went on tours around India (2015) and China (2017). The group uses a combination of original historical instruments and mouthpieces made by Beuscher in the early 1930s (tenor and baritone) whose construction is based on the original patent of the inventor of saxophone, Adolphe Sax, and modern instruments made by Yamaha (soprano) and Selmer (alto). This combination produces a unique and very specific sound.
Their catalogue of classical music includes mostly scores composed specifically for this unique combination of instruments (Alexander Glazunov, Jean-Baptiste Singeleé, Eugène Bozza, Jean Françaix, Pierre Max Dubois, Claude Pascal, Carlos Micháns, Ida Gotkowsky, Jindřich Feld, Jevgenij Iršai, Marián Lejava), but they also perform editedpieces originally by the giants of Baroque and Classicism.
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