Anders Koppel works for Sax and orchestra FLAC

I love these works, so full of intoxicating symphonic jazz and imagination. It was a wonderful discovery so I thought I would share.

http://www.dacapo-records.dk/en/recordings/works-for-saxophone-and-orchestra

Anders Koppel is to a rare degree a composer of his time. With one leg solidly planted in the classical European musical tradition and the other in world music and rock/jazz, Anders Koppel’s activities as a composer can be seen as one long continuous effort to combine these cultures in a contemporary musical idiom. This has resulted in a long succession of original works, all typified by a special ability to communicate emotions and energy strongly and directly between musicians and audience. In short, humanist music that brings people closer to one another.

Right from the beginning music has played a major role in Anders Koppel’s life. As a child he learned to play the piano and clarinet, sang in the Copenhagen Boys’ Choir, and as the son of the composer and pianist Herman D. Koppel (1908-1998) he became familiar at an early age with reading scores and instrumentation. At the same time Anders Koppel (born in 1947) took an active part in the musical experiments that were part of the youth revolt of the 1960s and 1970s. In the years 1967-74, as the organist and lyric-writer, he was one of the bearing members of Savage Rose, one of the most prominent and innovative groups on the Danish rock scene. With a sophisticated sound idiom coloured by extensive use of keyboard instruments, Anders Koppel was already then breaking down the boundaries among the traditional genres. Since Anders Koppel left Savage Rose in 1974, he has increasingly immersed himself in the creation of contemporary composition music.

Anders Koppel

CONCERTO NO. 1 FOR SAXOPHONE AND ORCHESTRA (1992/REV.2004)

1 I Andante – Largo – Andante 11:48

2 II Adagio – Moderato – Tranquillo

3 III Moderato – Andante – Allegro agitato 11:14

CONCERTO NO. 2 FOR ALTO SAXOPHONE AND ORCHESTRA (2003)

4 I Andante – Allegro

5 II Moderato – Allegro

6 III Largo

7 IV Allegro assai – Allegretto scherzando

8 Vivace

SWAN SONG FOR ALTO SAXOPHONE, HARP AND STRINGS (1987/2005)
9 Larghetto, tranquillo

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keep boppin�
marcel