Born in 1938 French composer Jean-Claude Risset is best known for his pioneering contributions to electronic music. Composed in 2003 Reprises Alto Saxophone and Electroacoustic Device is no exception to the composer's prolific contributions to the genre. Risset has experimented with a variety of software to recreate and produce sounds and synthesis techniques. Composed for Conservatoire students a typical performance of Reprises lasts around 3 and a half minutes. The Saxophone demonstrates use of chromaticism extended techniques and complex rhythms amongst other features whilst accompanied by anelectronic part helpfully recorded on a CD. For all advanced saxophonists aspiring to play a range of repertoire Risset's Reprises is essential.

French saxophonist Claude Georgel was born in 1959. He studied at the Nancy Conservatory where he became curious in the modern music heard today written or improvised. His interests and expertise have led him to create many compositions including Crise(n) for Alto Saxophone and Electronics. Crise(n) is the third volume in the composer's series 'Altitudes'. The work is frequently incorporated to final year syllabuses at conservatoires. Composed in 2009 a typical performance of Crise(n) takes around three minutes and ten seconds. The piece is highly virtuosic making use of complexrhyhtms ornamentation unusual performance directions exploited sound techniques and other extended techniques. For all advanced saxophonists Georgel's Crise(n) makes for a challenging yet exciting performance work.

OpenSax – the title of this collection should appeal to all saxophonists who seek to explore new directions while keeping an eye on the current musical scene. Claude Georgel director of the Vent de Sax collection took advantage of a festive occasion – the 17th World Saxophone Congress and Festival in July 2015 – to ask nine composers from very different backgrounds to write pieces either joyful or poetic. The idea was to allow instrumentalists (starting year two of Alto Saxophone study) to explore a variety of artistic and technical worlds guided by the pure joy of playing. It’s a thrilling adventure: British composer JohnHarle draws on the Sanskrit symbol Yantra to weave magical connections between soloist and electroacoustics. Sophie Lacaze turns young saxophonists into Oriental storytellers as they celebrate through deft plays on keys the thousand shards of La Lune dans l’Eau. Vincent-Raphaël Carinola takes musicians into the dreamlike mechanism of the Montre molle so dear to Dali. In Sunny groove Claude Barthélémy offers those who thrill to jazz the pleasure of slipping into the skin of the legendary Sonny Rollins. Annette Mengel gives her Vol au Vent the appearance of a fragile haiku while Clara Olivares the composer of L’Envol transforms what could have been a banal study of the various types of vibrato into a hymn for freedom – that of the performer for example to whom she gives great importance. Claude Georgel’s Du Tac au Tac! conjures an amusing world to which a “very free questioning” rubato brings a simply irresistible sway. In Gamaphone for Saxophone and electroacoustics Philippe Gleiss throws a bridge between jazz and funk by plunging the musician into the sensual delights of rhythm. Xavier Rosselle brings the electroacoustic accompaniment of Main gauche Main droite et Clac a granular quality that emphasizes the music’s sobriety. From the nine stops that compose this journey springs an intoxicating taste of freedom. - Claude BarthélemySonny’s groove

Arranged for Alto Sax and Electronics. Audio CD also available for sale (OM24568).Karen Tanaka: Night Bird is a love song filled with tender whispers of lovers. I have tried to weave colours and scent into thesound of alto saxophone and tape.This piece was commissioned by and is dedicated to Claude Delangle.

Ce portefeuille comprend 14 classiques de l'adaptation du film oscarisé de Boublil et Schönberg superlatif musicale, Les Misérables, savamment arrangé pour solo saxophone alto. Comprend la nouvelle chanson coup et: Suddenly and: At the End of the Day - Bring Him Home - Castle on a Cloud - Do You Hear the People Sing? - Drink with Me (To Days Gone By) - Empty Chairs at Empty Tables - A Heart Full of Love - I Dreamed a Dream - In My Life - A Little Fall of Rain - On My Own - Stars - Who Am I? / Saxophone Alto

Instrumental Play-Along-Solo arrangements of thirteen songs from the beloved Boublil and Schonberg musical.Songs include At The End of The Day and Bring Him Home.

Collection Vent De Sax-Composer's preface performance instructions and biographical notes in French. Track 1 of the acc. CD contains a complete performance of the work; track 2 contains only the play-back.