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Adolphe Sax At 200: A Genius Who Invents A Noise

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Adolphe Sax At 200: A Genius Who Invents A Noise --- 2014

More information here: https://www.largo-music.co.uk/CD_adolphesax200.php#:~:text=This%20piece%20for%20soprano%20saxophone,of%20improvised%20music%20within%20parameters. Eight Scottish composers created and performed new works in 2014 for the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Adolphe Sax, creator of the saxophone. The project was made possible by the generous support of Creative Scotland. www.creativescotland.com Recorded at Watercolour Studios. Ardgour, Scotland, September and October 2014 Sound Engineer: Nick Turner Percussion recordings at CaVa Sound, Glasgow, Scotland Production by Margaret Douglass of Largo Music Graphic design by Mike Garden of Birnam CD Album cover photography by Margaret Douglass and David Stothard Richard Ingham plays Yamaha Saxophones Saxophones prepared and maintained by Jonathan Griffin and Ruth Prowse of The Wind Section, Edinburgh Grateful thanks to Douglas Dunn for permission to use extracts from his poem An Address to Adolphe Sax in Heaven (Faber and Faber) and to Peter and Hazel Rose for the use of their Steinway 1900 Model C grand piano