Hovhaness: Works for Orchestra & Soprano Saxophone

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ALAN HOVHANESS
Hovhaness: Works for Orchestra & Soprano Saxophone
Greg Banaszak (saxophone) / Eastern Music Festival Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz

[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 25 March 2015

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Alan Hovhaness's remarkable legacy of 67 symphonies and hundreds of other works stands as a testimony to one of the most individual musical voices of the 20th century. Written when Hovhaness was 25, the Prelude and Quadruple Fugue represents not only his mastery of counterpoint but in its sweeping climactic form is also one of his most exciting works. The Soprano Saxophone Concerto is like a melodic tone poem or aria, and considered the most Romantic concerto Hovhaness ever wrote. "Inspired by the wonders and mysteries of astronomy" and appearing here in its première recording, the Symphony No. 48 'Vision of Andromeda' expresses the vastness of this galaxy through giantmelodies, shimmering orchestral colors and a transcendent apotheosis.

Tracks:

Prelude And Quadruple Fugue For Orchestra, Op. 128
Soprano Saxophone Concerto, Op. 344
Symphony No. 48, Op. 355 "Vision of Andromeda"