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Adagio Assai

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Year of comp: 2010
Instr: f soprano saxophone
Duration: 4
Publisher: SMIC
Premiered: 2012-08-13
Place: Perugia, Cortile d’Onore del Palazzo degli Arienti (Festival SituAzioni 2012)
Performers: David Brutti
ID-number: GB7647

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PROGRAM NOTES
The expressive content of Adagio Assai can be likened to a ‘lament’, manifesting great grief, but in an unobtrusive manner. As the title suggests, the tempo of the piece very slowly gives each note a high degree of significance.

The material for the piece is based on a series where quarter tones are mixed with whole and half tones. The series of tones is derived from the ‘multiphonics’ which provide the ‘harmonics’ for the piece.

First performance: given by Italian saxophonist David Brutti during the course of the Festival SituAzioni 2012 in Umbria, Italy.

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Adagio Assai

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First piece for alto Saxophone

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Year of comp: 2008
Instr: f alto saxophone
Duration: 8
Publisher: SMIC
Premiered: 2012-07-22
Place: Todi, Sala delle Pietre
Performers: David Brutti
ID-number: GB7029

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PROGRAM NOTES
The First piece for alto Saxophone is dedicated to Lars-Göran Ulander, an influential musician in free-form jazz in Sweden.

Links to the genre of jazz occur, such as choice of tone series and intervals. A celebratory reference to the American saxophonist Steve Coleman is also hidden within the work. The piece mixes the strictly formal with a Dionysian form of expression.

First performance: given by Italian saxophonist David Brutti during the course of the Festival SituAzioni 2012 in Umbria, Italy.

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First Piece for alto Saxophone
performed by David Brutti  http://www.davidbrutti.com