Seventh Year

Alexander Glazunov
Concerto in E-flat, op. 109

1934 · alto saxophone and string orchestra²

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7 core and Year 9 additional; C2C (2024), Fourth to Sixth Years (composer named) and before the Licence

About

• First performed in Nyköping, Sweden, on 25 November 1934, with Sigurd Raschèr as soloist.²
• Raschèr repeatedly pressed Glazunov for the work.²

Darius Milhaud
Scaramouche

1937 (two-piano original, op. 165b); the version for alto saxophone and orchestra or piano, op. 165c, was published in 1939 · alto saxophone and orchestra or piano (op. 165c) · Raymond Deiss (two-piano original); Salabert (op. 165c, 1939) · about 8–9 minutes³

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7 core and Year 9 additional

About

• Three movements: Vif, Modéré, Brazileira.³

Henri Tomasi (1901–1971)⁴
Ballade

1938 · alto saxophone and orchestra (or piano) · Alphonse Leduc⁴⁵

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, core and additional

About

• An auction catalog describing the autograph manuscripts gives the dedication “à Marcel Mule” and the first performance in Nantes on 25 March 1939 by Mule, conducted by Marc Vaubourgoin.⁴

Jérôme Naulais
Frissons

alto saxophone and piano · Éditions Billaudot · 10:30⁶

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, core repertoire

About

• Also exists for alto saxophone and wind orchestra.⁷

Level

• Billaudot: “Difficult (cycle 3).”⁶

Maurice Faillenot
Rapsodie occitane

R. Martin (1992)⁸

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, core repertoire

About

• Chosen as a “coup de cœur” by the Paris municipal libraries in 2016.⁹

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)¹⁰
Rapsodie pour orchestre et saxophone

Listed in: Study (2020), Years 7 and 9, additional; C2C (2024), Fourth Year (composer named)

About

• Commissioned by and dedicated to Elise Hall; orchestrated by Jean Roger-Ducasse; first performed on 14 May 1919 at the Salle Gaveau under André Caplet, with Pierre Mayeur as soloist.¹¹
• The subject of an article in The Musical Quarterly, “Debussy’s Rapsodie pour orchestre et saxophone Revisited.”¹²

Jacques Ibert
Concertino da camera

1935 · alto saxophone and eleven instruments · Alphonse Leduc¹³¹⁴

Listed in: Study (2020), Years 7 and 8, additional; C2C (2024), Fourth and Sixth Years (composer named)

About

• Dedicated to Sigurd Raschèr, who premiered the first movement in 1935 and the complete work in December 1935.¹³
• Listed among the works dedicated to Raschèr as “Concertino da camera pour saxophone alto et onze instruments, 1935.”¹⁵

Demands

• The first movement is lively and technically challenging; the second opens with a lyrical Larghetto with soaring upper-register lines.¹³

Paul Creston
Concerto, op. 26

G. Schirmer¹⁶

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

Pierre-Max Dubois (1930–1995)¹⁷
Concerto

1959 · Alphonse Leduc¹⁸

Listed in: Study (2020), Years 7 and 8, additional; C2C (2024), Ninth-Year Licence repertoire

About

• Dubois won the Prix de Rome in 1955.¹⁷

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Fantasia, W. 490

1948 · soprano or tenor saxophone, three horns and strings · Southern Music · about 10 minutes¹⁹

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7 additional; C2C (2024), Third and Fifth Years

About

• Dedicated to Marcel Mule; first performed on 17 November 1951 in Rio de Janeiro, conducted by the composer, by the tenor saxophonist Waldemar Szpilman.¹⁹
• Composed in F major; the composer transposed it a tone lower, to E-flat, and permitted the tenor saxophone as an alternative to the soprano.¹⁹

Bernhard Heiden
Diversion

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

Level

• Listed at Level 5 on the NYSSMA alto saxophone solo list, as shown by the retailer Hickey’s.²⁰

Karel Husa
Élégie et rondeau

1960¹⁵

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

About

• Among the works dedicated to Sigurd Raschèr (“Elegie et Rondeau for Alto Saxophone and Piano, 1960”).¹⁵

Robert Muczynski
Sonata, op. 29

alto saxophone and piano

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

Level

• Listed at Level 6 on the NYSSMA alto saxophone solo list, as shown by the retailer Hickey’s.²¹

Ryo Noda
Maï

1975 · alto saxophone solo · Alphonse Leduc²²

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

About

• A programmatic work; it ends with an altissimo climax followed by a long silence.²³

Demands

• Requires large leaps, rapid trills, pitch bends by alternate fingerings, multiphonics, the altissimo register and portamento.²³

Florent Schmitt (1870–1958)²⁴
Légende, op. 66

1918²⁵

Listed in: Study (2020), Years 7 and 9, additional repertoire

About

• Exists in versions for saxophone, viola or violin with orchestra or piano; the saxophone version is the most often performed.²⁶

Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942)²⁷
Hot-Sonate

alto saxophone and piano

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

About

• Four movements, each headed by a metronome marking rather than a tempo word.²⁷

Demands

• The third movement asks the saxophone for “lamentoso ma molto grottesco” against a “molto ritmico” piano part.²⁷

Jeanine Rueff (1922–1999)²⁸
Chanson et passepied, op. 16

alto saxophone and piano · Alphonse Leduc²⁹

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

About

• Rueff worked with Marcel Mule’s saxophone class; her saxophone works include the Concertino, op. 17 (1951).²⁸

Paul Bonneau
Caprice en forme de valse

1950 · alto saxophone solo · Alphonse Leduc³⁰

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

Demands

• Contains French chromaticism and difficult technical passages.³⁰

Henk Badings
La Malinconia

alto saxophone and piano · Donemus (Amsterdam)³¹

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

Eugène Bozza
Concertino

1939³²

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

Ida Gotkovsky
Brillance

1974³³

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

David Maslanka
Sonata

1988 · alto saxophone and piano · 32 minutes³⁴

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire

Frank Martin
Ballade

1938 · alto saxophone, string orchestra, piano and timpani³⁵

Listed in: Study (2020), Years 7 to 9, additional repertoire

About

• One of six one-movement Ballades Martin wrote for various solo instruments.³⁵
• Dedicated to Sigurd Raschèr (listed as “Ballade for Alto Saxophone, String Orchestra, Piano and Tympani, 1938”).¹⁵

Charles Koechlin (1867–1950)³⁶
2 Sonatines, op. 194

1942–43³⁶

Listed in: Study (2020), Year 7, additional repertoire (“Sonatine, op. 194/2”)