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CD353: Sextuor à Vent. Harvey Pittel, Alto Saxophone; Westwood Wind Quintet. UPC 009414735324
Darius Milhaud, Scaramouche for
Saxophone and Woodwind Quintet; Bernhard Heiden, Intrada for
Saxophone and Woodwind Quintet; Paul Hindemith, Concert Piece for
Two Saxophones (with Sunil Gadgil, saxophone); Pierre Max Dubois, Sinfonia da Camera
(for Saxophone and Woodwind Quintet); Jacques Ibert, Trois Pièces
Brèves (first movement) – for Woodwind Quintet; J.S. Bach, Fugue from the
Well Tempered Clavier (arr. for Woodwind Trio); Rossini, Quartet no. 1 in F
(first movement) – for Flute, Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon; Paul De
Wailly, Aubade for Flute, Oboe, and Clarinet; Adrien Barthe, Passacaille for
Woodwind Quintet; Malcolm Arnold, Divertimento for Flute, Oboe, and
Clarinet (first movement); Rimsky-Korsakov, Flight of the
Bumble-Bee (arr. for Woodwind Quintet); Leo Sowerby, Pop Goes the
Weasel (adapted by the Westwood Wind Quintet) 
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“Harvey Pittel [is a] master of his instrument…the most beautiful and pure tone I have ever heard from a saxophone.” New York Times. The Westwood Wind Quintet is “probably the best group of this kind anywhere.” New Orleans Courier “Delightful music, winningly played” Fanfare Magazine
CD353 Sound
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Milhaud: Scaramouche I: Vif II:
Modéré
III:
Brazileira Heiden:
Intrada Hindemith:
Concert Piece for Two Saxophones I:
Lebhaft
II:
Mässig langsam
III:
Lebhaft Dubois:
Sinfonia da Camera I:
Entrée
II:
Gigue en rondeau
III:
Variations Ibert:
Trois
Pièces Brèves (first
mvmt) Bach/arr. Atkins: Fugue Rossini:
Quartet
no.1 in F
(first mvmt) Wailly: Aubade Barthe:
Passacaille
Arnold:
Divertimento
(first
mvmt) Rimsky-Korsakov:
Flight
of the Bumble-Bee Sowerby:
Pop
Goes the Weasel
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CD358: PAS DE TROIS. Kenneth Tse, Saxophone, Benjamin Coelho, Bassoon, Alan Huckleberry, Piano. Bernard Van Beurden: Pas de
trois; Jindrich Feld: Trio Giocoso; David Froom: Arirang Variations; Perry
Goldstein: Noir; Don Freund: Louder than Words UPC 00941473582-9 
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Saxophone, Bassoon, and Piano is an unusual
combination that creates an exciting and vibrant sound. The works on this CD represent some of
the finest writing for this combination, and the performers are three of the
best practioners of their art.
They are on the faculty at the
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Van Beurden: Pas de trois: Ouverture
Pastorale Tarantella Feld: Trio Giocoso: Allegro Andante Allegro
vivo
Froom: Arirang
Variations
Goldstein: Noir Freund: Louder than Words: Part
I Part
II
CD359: Stellar Saxes, KENNETH TSE and NOBUYA
SUGAWA, SAXOPHONES. UPC 00941473592-8. ORDER
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Paul Hindemith, Concert Piece for two alto saxophones; Jun Nagao, Paganini Lost, for two alto saxophones and piano, and Lovers on the Celestial Sphere, for soprano and tenor saxophones and piano; Masanori Katoh, Oriental, for soprano and alto saxophones; Guy Lacour, Sute en Duo, for two alto saxophones; Victor Morosco, Contemporary Etudes in Duet Form, for two alto saxophones. with Kazuo Murakami, piano.
Nobuya Sugawa and Kenneth Tse are two of the best-known saxophonists in the world. Specializing in premiere performances, they present on this CD some of the most exciting new works for two saxophones. This is Kenneth Tse’s fifth CD on Crystal Records. All have been greeted with praise from both critics and consumers. “Tse plays with seductive tonal beauty.” (American Record Guide) “If Fanfare awarded grades to recordings, this would rate A+” (Fanfare, writing about Tse’s CD658 on Crystal)
Sound samples (uses RealPlayer) Click on the link to hear up to one minute of the movement shown. _(r)Nagao: Paganini Lost Hindemith: Konzertstucke Lebhaft Massig langsam, Lebhaft Katoh: Oriental Lacour: Suite en duo Allegro Aria Petite Fugue Largo - Scherzetto Nagao: Lovers on the Celestial Sphere Morosco: Contemporary Etudes Etude 1 Etude 2 Etude 4
CD651: LAURA HUNTER, SAXOPHONE. Brian Connelly, Piano and
DX7 Synthesizer.
William Bolcom, Lilith;
Paul Cooper, Four Impromptus;
Rodney Rogers, The Nature of This Whirling Wheel;
Steven Galante, Shu Gath Manna;
Arthur Gottschalk, Jeu de Chat.
Bolcom is the winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Hunter is
"a splendid artist", Audio. "beautiful
tone", Wisconsin Journal UPC 00941476512-3
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Rogers: Whirling
Wheel Bolcom Lilith: Mvt
1(Female Demon) Mvt
2 (Succuba) Mvt
3 (Will-O-The-Wisp) Mvt
4 (Child Stealer) Mvt
5 (The Night Dance) Cooper: Four
Impromptus Presto Andante Animato Largo
Gottschalk: Jeu
de Chat Galante: Shu Gath Manna Prologue Silicon
Dance Threnody Regeneration
CD652: AN
AMERICAN TRIBUTE TO SIGURD RASCHER.
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Wirth Jepthah: Mvt
1 (Invocation) Mvt
2 (Dance) Russell
Particles: Mvt
1 (Allegro) Mvt
2 (Lento) Mvt
3 (Allegro moderato) Mvt
4 (Andante) Mvt
5 (Allegro) Cowell: Air Scherzo Still: Romance Lamb: Three Antique Dances Mvt
1 Mvt
2 Mvt
3 Husa: Elegie Rondeau Worley: Sonata Mvt
1 Mvt
2 Mvt
3 Wirth: Beyond
These Hills
CD653: DUO
ONE, POINT FIVE; Bill Perconti, Alto Saxophone. Alojzy Thomys,
Miniatury w Roznych Stylach (sax & piano); Ryo Noda, Improvisation III (sax
solo); Alan Hovhaness, Suite (saxophone and guitar); Gerard Massias, Suite
monodique (sax solo); Jerome Grant, Duo 1 Point 5 (sax and tape); Eugene Bozza,
Improvisation et Caprice (sax solo); George Gershwin, Three Quarter Blues and
Promenade (arr. Perconti for sax & piano). "creamy smooth tone",
American Record Guide. "Another first-class woodwind recital from the
leading label in the field." Fanfare. UPC 00941476532-1
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Thomys, Miniatury: Mvt
1(Allegro) Mvt
2(Andante) Mvt
3(Allegretto) Mvt
4(Andante) Mvt
5(Vivo Scherzando) Mvt
6 Mvt
7 Mvt
8 Mvt
9 Mvt
10 Noda: Improvisation
No. 3 Hovhaness: Suite Mvt
1 Mvt
2 Mvt
3 Massias: Suite Monodique Mvt
1 Mvt
2 Mvt
3 Mvt
4 Mvt
5 Grant: Duo
1 Point 5 Bozza: Improvisation
et Caprice Gershwin: Three-Quarter
Blues Promenade
CD654: BACH
AND NOODLES: Harvey Pittel, Saxophone. New Classics
Suite: Sonata 2 by J.S. Bach (arr. John Rodby) interspersed w/ Johnny Mercer,
Richard Rodgers, David Gates. Plus light classics including Flight of the
Bumble-Bee, Oodles of Noodles, Perpetual Motion, Scaramouche, Vocalise,
Saxophobia, Caprice (Bozza), Caprice (Bonneau), and the Acrostic Song from
Final Alice (Del Tredici). Pittel, saxophone, with Gabor Rejto, cello; and
Levering Rothfuss and Anton Nell, piano. Harvey Pittel has been saxophonist
with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, etc.
and is a prominent recitalist. UPC
00941476542-0
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New Classics Suite: Mvt
1 (Allegro-Autumn Leaves) Mvt
2 (Siciliano-My Favorite Things) Mvt
3 (Allegro-If) Rimsky-Korsakoff: Flight
of the Bumblebee Rachmaninoff: Vocalise Dorsey: Ooodles
of Noodles Demersseman: Carnival
of Venice Del Tredici: Final Alice Acrostic
Song Wiedoeft: Saxophobia Valse
Yvonee Bozza: Lied,
Badinage, and Caprice Bonneau: Caprice Paganini: Moto
Perpetuo Milhaud: Scaramouche Brooms(Russian trad.): Vif Modere Brazileira
CD655: MOVING
ALONG with Harvey Pittel, Saxophone. Ingolf Dahl, Concerto for Alto Saxophone;
Jacques Ibert, Concertino da Camera; Paul Creston, Sonata for Alto Saxophone
and Piano; Paule Maurice, Tableaux de Provence; Tomasi Albinoni, Concerto
"Saint Marc"; Rachmaninoff, Vocalise. All with Jeff Helmer, piano. "
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Creston Sonata: Mvt
1 (With Vigor) Mvt
2 (With Tranqility) Mvt
3 (With Gaiety) Dahl Concerto: Mvt 1 (Recitative) Mvt 2 (Passacaglia) Rachmaninoff: Vocalise Ibert: Concertino Mvt
1 Mvt
2 Mvt
3 Maurice: Tableaux de Provence Farandole Chanson
pour ma Mie La
Bohemienne Des
Alyscamps Le
Cabridan Albinoni: Concerto Grave Allegro Andante Allegro
CD656:
SPARKLING SAX: KENNETH TSE, SAXOPHONE with Kari Miller, Piano. JIndrich Feld, Sonata for
Alto Saxophone and Piano; Bernhard Heiden, Solo for Alto Saxophone and Piano;
Victor Morosco, Blue Caprice; Walter Kaufmann, Meditation; Robert Muczynski,
Sonata; Warren Benson, Aeolian Song; Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story Medley.
"Kenneth Tse is a uniquely talented saxophonist endowed with a facile
technique and a tone of great beauty, plus the ability to understand and
interpret a wide range of musical styles." _ Eugene Rousseau, Eminent saxophone soloist & Professor of
Saxophone, Indiana University
UPC 00941476562-8
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Feld Sonata: Mvt
1(Allegro Ritmico) Mvt
2(Adagio) Mvt
3 (Allegro Vivo) Mvt
4 (Allegro con Fuoco) Kaufmann: Meditation Muczynski: Sonata Mvt
1 Mvt
2 Benson: Aeolian
Song Heiden: Solo Morosco: Blue
Caprice Bernstein(arr. Rousseau): West
Side Story medley
CD657: AN
AMERICAN EXHIBITION. Kenneth Tse,
Saxophone. Mami Nagai, piano. David DeBoor Canfield, Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano;
John Cheetham, Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano; Libby Larsen, Holy Roller;
William Grant Still, Romance; Leonard Mark Lewis, As in Stained Light; Jay
Vosk, Thaw; Walter Hartley, Sonata for Baritone Saxophone and Piano. UPC
00941476572-7
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Tse was formerly Instructor at ORDER
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Canfield Sonata: Mvt
1(Grazioso) Mvt
2(Molto vivo) Mvt
3(Ad libitum) Mvt
4(Moto perpetuo)
Cheetham Sonata: Mvt
1(Giocoso) Mvt
2(Lento) Mvt
3(Con moto) Larsen:
Holy
Roller
Still: Romance Lewis: As
In Stained Light Vosk: Thaw
Hartley Sonata: Mvt
1(Andante) Mvt
2(Adagio) Mvt
3Allegro)
CD658: LYRIC
SOPRANO. Kenneth Tse, Soprano Saxophone. Alan Huckleberry,
piano. Antonino Pasculli:
Le Api; Gabriel Faure: Trois Romances sans Paroles; Jerôme Naulais: Sax de
Voyage; Isaac Albeniz: Tango Op. 165, No. 2; Denis Bedard: Fantaisie; John C.
Worley: Six Dances; Astor Piazzolla: L'Histoire du Tango; Leonard Mark Lewis:
Prelude (for Kenneth Tse). Kenneth Tse is currently
the professor of saxophone at the ORDER
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Pasculli: Le
Api Faure Trois
Romances Mvmt
1 Mvmt
2 Mvmt
3
Naulais: Sax
de Voyage Albeniz: Tango Bedard:
Fantaisie Worley:
Six Dances Prelude Allemande Sarabande Gavotte Courante Gigue
Piazzolla: L'Histoire du Tango Bordel
Cafe Night-club Concert
d'aujourd'hui Lewis: Prelude
CD659: SAXOPHONE VOICES FROM FIVE COUNTRIES, featuring Keith R. Young, soprano, alto, and tenor
saxophone. Heitor Villa Lobos,
Fantasia; Astor Piazzolla, Tango; Rudy Wiedoeft, Saxophobia; Ron Nelson, Danza
Capriccio; Charles Koechlin, Andante & Le Reps de Tityre; Paul Bonneau,
Caprice en Forme de Valse; Elliot Del Borgo, Canto; Toshiyuki & Naomi
Honda, Four Jazz Etudes. UPC
00941476592-5 
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Keith R. Young was principal
saxophonist with the U.S. Air Force Band in
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Nelson: Danza
Capriccio Koechlin: Andante
Bonneau: Caprice
en Forme de Valse Del Borgo: Canto
Villa-Lobos: Fantasia Anim_(c) Lent Tr_(r)s
anim_(c) Koechlin: Le
Repos de Tityre Honda: Four Jazz Etudes Greeting Fake Interval Session
Piazzolla: Tango
Wiedoeft: Saxophobia
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C151: BRIAN MINOR, SAXOPHONE. Vincent Persichetti:
Parable XI for solo saxophone;
Lawson Lunde: Sonata
#1; Leon Stein: Quintet for Saxophone &
String Quartet.
with Chicago Symphony String Quartet & Lawson Lunde, piano. Cassette only
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C152: BARITONE SAXOPHONE. Mark Watters. Boismortier: Sonata; Paul Bonneau: Caprice; Robert Linn: Saxifrage
Blue; Mario Pelusi:
Concert Piece for Baritone Saxophone, Brass Quartet, & Percussion. Cassette
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C153: NOVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET. Gabriel Pierne: Introduction et variations
sur une Rondo Populaire;
Paul Pierne: Trois Conversations;
Robert Clarisse: Introduction et Scherzo;
Jean Absil: Suite sur des Themes Populaires Roumaines. Cassette only
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C155: HARVEY PITTEL SAXOPHONE QUARTET. J.S. Bach: Fugue; Glazunov: Quatuor; Rivier: Grave et Presto; Bozza: Nuages; Joplin: Cascades; Desenclos: Quatuor; also popular works with
Shelly Manne, drums;
Monty Budwig, bass. Cassette
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C157: HARVEY PITTEL TRIO. The New
Classics Suite, by Bach/Rodby;
Creston: Sonata for
Saxophone;
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas
Brasileiras; Duke
Ellington medley.
Harvey Pittel, saxophone;
Julian Fifer, cello;
Levering Rothfuss, piano.
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C353: SEXTUOR A VENT. Harvey Pittel,
Saxophone, with Westwood Wind Quintet. Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche; Bernhard Heiden: Intrada; Pierre Max Dubois: Sinfonia da Camera. Cassette
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C500: MUSIC OF JOHN RODBY. HARVEY
PITTEL, Saxophone.
Saxophone Concerto,
Festivals, &
Variations for Orchestra.
Elgar Howarth conducting the London Sinfonietta.
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C651: LAURA HUNTER, SAXOPHONE,
Brian Connelly, Piano & Synthesizer.
William Bolcom: Lilith;
Paul Cooper: Four Impromptus;
Rodney Rogers: Nature of This Whirling Wheel;
Steven Galante: Shu Gath Manna;
Arthur Gottschalk: Jeu de Chat.
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