Soprano-, Alto-, Tenor-
and Baritone Saxophone
SKU: HL.14031314
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Arranged by Jesper
Nordin. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Music Sales
#KP01296. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14031314).
ISBN
9788759886342.
Danish.
Poul Ruders
' two Piano pieces Star
Prelude And Love Fugue
from 1990, expertly
arranged for Saxophone
Quartet by Jesper Nordin.
Programme note Star
Prelude and Love Fugue is
the fruit of “a
wonderful stay in Tokyo
in March 1988” (the
composer's words). The
two pieces were composed
in February 1990, and
they are dedicated to
Japanese pianist Aki
Takahashi, who gave the
premiere performance at
the Lerchenborg Musikdage
on 3 August 1990. The
prelude is a fantasia on
the prelude of Act Two of
Poul Ruders' opera Tycho
(1986), about Danish
astronomer Tycho Brahe
(which should explain the
title). The theme of the
Love Fugueis taken
from the opening bars of
anotherearlier Ruders'
work, namely the a
cappella motet Charitas
Nunquam Excidit (which is
Latin for “love
never ceases”). The
following fugue is purged
of the genre's
traditional gravitas, as
is already signalled by
the expression mark
'Swinging'. Its initial
eleven bars quote the
motet, but there after
everything is newly
composed. Per Erland
Rasmussen, 2001.
