Saxophone Concert - Glazunov // Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Valentine Michaud (Live)

Saxophone Concert - Glazunov // Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Valentine Michaud (Live)
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Saxophone Concert

Composed by Alexander Glazunov
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
With Valentine Michaud (saxophone)
Conducted by Vasily Petrenko

The Concerto in E flat major for alto saxophone and string orchestra, Op. 109, was written by Alexander Glazunov in 1934.
Although invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was still fairly new and unfamiliar in Glazunov's day; it remained untouched for a long time as it was considered "middle class". However, Glazunov was enthralled by the sound of the saxophone: a new timbre in the musical world.

The work premiered in Nyköping, Sweden, on 25 November 1934, with Sigurd Raschèr, a famous German saxophonist, as soloist.
Glazunov almost certainly never heard his Saxophone Concerto publicly performed, as the first Paris performance of the work did not occur until after his death.

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