I want tell you what a thrill it is just to see my very good friend Ken Coon. I knew him since I was 14 and were in Jr high and High School band together. We kept a lifetime friendship and I miss him sorely. RIP My brother.
Amazing playing. The rascher quartet is the only quartet that I've heard with the ability to blend so well, not only with the orchestra but with each other.
I was start to studied music , (saxophone) and make my own quartet inspired in this guys!!, i saw there in mexico (guanajuato) in 1990s.. never forget it. thanks a lot for the inspiration! my life changed 20 years ago..
I sat in on one of their concerts in Korea... it was so great... I'm a total jazz person, but I thought I would go and expand my genre's and oh god I was blown away. It was mostly live sound because the concert hall was designed so, and they were playing so great together...
@hansolopictures2000, key bud. The fact that you appreciate this man, bodes well for your future. From a composition stand point this man is "avant garde". Continue your path and find or create the new web of progressive music
Does this remind anyone else of Pokemon music? I listen to Philip Glass Pandora to go to sleep and every time I hear this I feel like I'm back in 2000 playing my lime green Gameboy color and hoping to come across wild Snorlax in the bushes.
I have the Symphony #2 recording of this work. It is a great piece. I have to say, however, that I enjoyed this performance more than the recorded one. Is that Karina on Soprano? There are all kinds of intonation issues on the recording, mostly due to Karina Rascher. A fantastic piece though, and we have the RSQ to thank for it. They have done a lot to encourage new literature. I wish Glass would write a Concerto for solo sax and orchestra...
The soprano saxophonist in the Rascher Quartet is Christine Rall (2002-present). She appears in this video and on this recording. Carina Rascher played in the quartet from 1969-2002.
But this piece is actually very hard to master with balance and tone colour. I really do love their interpretation, I always like to make the middle syncopated bit more mysterious and a bit quiter too!
it's Movement I CONCERTO FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET AND ORCHESTRA - Philip GLASS Movement I - 6:28 Movement II - 4:56 Movement III - 8:20 Movement IV - 3:49
Studied with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messaien, wow. I'm curious. Does music always need to be clever? Is there something wrong with cliche? I also wonder what your definition of pop music is.
I have always liked this piece, and although not a fan of the Rascher school, the quartet plays it very well. I'm just not sure about the orchestration. Did Glass orchestrate it himself? Color-wise, it sounds like Glass; the sudden dropouts at points where the quartet takes over just seem out of place, especially when compared to the version that is just the quartet by itself.
Why are you people in an argument with this guy? For those of you who listen to Jazz, what this guy is saying is like saying Miles Davis isn't a valid Jazz musician because he uses simple phrases and repetition. Funny how he doesn't understand it, really. He's probably angry that his long passages of technical, self-indulgent bullshit don't speak nearly as much as Glass's beautiful displays of tension through repetition and simplicity.
@ODRADEK111 Sorry, I'm 14 years old and I think the music is very interesting, exciting and I just like it. I don't think it's empty stuff! Just try to hear some interesting things there and you'll find them! I found them... And tell me why you hate Philip Glass, he didn't do anything.Also he is a better composer than you! All those people earn money with his famous music! Did you write something which is as famous as the music of philip glass?
I want tell you what a thrill it is just to see my very good friend Ken Coon. I knew him since I was 14 and were in Jr high and High School band together. We kept a lifetime friendship and I miss him sorely. RIP My brother.
Amazing playing. The rascher quartet is the only quartet that I've heard with the ability to blend so well, not only with the orchestra but with each other.
I was start to studied music , (saxophone) and make my own quartet inspired in this guys!!, i saw there in mexico (guanajuato) in 1990s.. never forget it. thanks a lot for the inspiration! my life changed 20 years ago..
I had the great pleasure to hear the Rascher-Quartett with this Konzert. It was so beautifull.
I sat in on one of their concerts in Korea... it was so great... I'm a total jazz person, but I thought I would go and expand my genre's and oh god I was blown away. It was mostly live sound because the concert hall was designed so, and they were playing so great together...
One of the few vids I can find on youtube with saxophones playing with the orchestra.. not solo..
Thanks!
saxaphones rule this planet!
thank you!
oh... the rascher quartett played in the church next to my school in kiel ^^
amazing haach...
Yeah I sorta figured it was a solo after I found out what concerto meant a few days after... haha..
Thanks for the info ^^
@hansolopictures2000, key bud. The fact that you appreciate this man, bodes well for your future. From a composition stand point this man is "avant garde". Continue your path and find or create the new web of progressive music
well actually, this is a concerto grosso, so the saxes are actually doing a grouped solo. haha.
i wish to play this one day!
i love philip glass
Everyone but us Saxophonists.
Remember that if something old sounds cliche to us now, maybe it's because it was very influential on modern styles.
it's still playing... that looked like a vintage selmer signet baritone...
Does this remind anyone else of Pokemon music? I listen to Philip Glass Pandora to go to sleep and every time I hear this I feel like I'm back in 2000 playing my lime green Gameboy color and hoping to come across wild Snorlax in the bushes.
Its actually a Beuscher Big B baritone.
I have the Symphony #2 recording of this work. It is a great piece. I have to say, however, that I enjoyed this performance more than the recorded one. Is that Karina on Soprano? There are all kinds of intonation issues on the recording, mostly due to Karina Rascher. A fantastic piece though, and we have the RSQ to thank for it. They have done a lot to encourage new literature. I wish Glass would write a Concerto for solo sax and orchestra...
The soprano saxophonist in the Rascher Quartet is Christine Rall (2002-present). She appears in this video and on this recording. Carina Rascher played in the quartet from 1969-2002.
But this piece is actually very hard to master with balance and tone colour. I really do love their interpretation, I always like to make the middle syncopated bit more mysterious and a bit quiter too!
it's Movement I
CONCERTO FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET AND ORCHESTRA - Philip GLASS
Movement I - 6:28
Movement II - 4:56
Movement III - 8:20
Movement IV - 3:49
this ist not Karina, this is Christine Rall
>>where can you find such quartet
well, they live about 40 miles from here
omg awesome when was that footage of all the city taken?!
Would you teach the name of this piece and its composer?
is there a cd record of this concerto with the rascher saxophone quartet and orchestra?
Studied with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messaien, wow. I'm curious. Does music always need to be clever? Is there something wrong with cliche? I also wonder what your definition of pop music is.
do u know where i can get a recording of this?
is this the whole piece?
or is there more to it than this?
I have always liked this piece, and although not a fan of the Rascher school, the quartet plays it very well. I'm just not sure about the orchestration. Did Glass orchestrate it himself? Color-wise, it sounds like Glass; the sudden dropouts at points where the quartet takes over just seem out of place, especially when compared to the version that is just the quartet by itself.
The jerkiness of the camera aside, this was excellent, visually & especially musically. Haunting.
You're 67? Wow...
Glass rarely orchestrates his music any more. He has a small army of folks that work for his now. A perk to being famous.
the saxes are Buesher Aristocrat
It's called minimalism.
Why are you people in an argument with this guy? For those of you who listen to Jazz, what this guy is saying is like saying Miles Davis isn't a valid Jazz musician because he uses simple phrases and repetition. Funny how he doesn't understand it, really. He's probably angry that his long passages of technical, self-indulgent bullshit don't speak nearly as much as Glass's beautiful displays of tension through repetition and simplicity.
@ODRADEK111 Sorry, I'm 14 years old and I think the music is very interesting, exciting and I just like it. I don't think it's empty stuff! Just try to hear some interesting things there and you'll find them! I found them...
And tell me why you hate Philip Glass, he didn't do anything.Also he is a better composer than you! All those people earn money with his famous music! Did you write something which is as famous as the music of philip glass?
I guess you don't think much of fugue's
The best! But the vehicle is really terrible-wow! Philip Glass is not happening at all. One cliche after another. I cannot believe he ever got played.
Calm yourself.
Absolutely not.
Too accessible.
lol