Heard this last month on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in Washington DC, www.kennedy-center.org/video/index/M66683 Amazing! Doug is a premier saxophonist with the US Army Band, Pershing's Own. Almost makes me want to join the Army (again).
A 4 stars wow! I won honors concert by playing on my violin 35 years ago but you play it better! I salute you sir--both for your service to our country and for your musicianship and interpretation of J.S. Bach. Bless you sir!
j'écoute parce qu'il faut s'ouvrir à toutes les musiques. elles sont le reflet du cœur de chaque compositeur, mais j'ai vraiment du mal avec la musique contemporaine, cependant j'admire la performance de ce musicien. bravo !!!!
+REY HERRERA yeah it's the use of the throat/oral cavity in addition to the fingerings. He does scoop up to it with a combination of throat voicing with most likely a gliss of sorts with his fingerings.
RasenLu, thank you for your compliments. I have not, unfortunately, bothered to write it down. For the most part I've learned it from the violin score and made my decisions while practicing it about how to approach multiple stops, etc. You are certainly not the first to ask, however, so I will try and get on publishing my version. I think what's holding me back is trying to make it more appropriate with the ornaments: I had a lesson with Kris Bezuidenhout on this piece and he had some brilliant ideas which I haven't really had a chance to fully realize yet. Check out Skip Sempe's Chaconne on iTunes or elsewhere for an incredible example. Cheers, Doug
Doug O'Connor Oh, that's awesome! Hope you all the best to you! It's very impressive that since listened your "Jungle", that kind leaded me actually into a new level of view. Also I will go for this year adolphe saxophone competition. deep appreciate!! Can I ask what mouthpiece, ligature and reeds that you use? thank you.
@RasenLu You may copy the link and paste into a site online by googling mp3 youtube conversion. There are several. And they will give you audio mp3 so you can download.
Where do i find this piece? I could never play it, but it might be fun to just have and put on my wall and look at XD Maybe Ill give it a shot when i get to college. But really where can i find this?
Anda um gajo anos no youtube, para as vezes encontrar estas pérolas. To the saxophonist: amazing work, one of the best recordings I've found of this piece.
