off the top of my head:
Kenneth Tse
Otis Murphy
Arno Bornkamp
Marcel Mule
Sigurd Rascher
Eugene Rousseau
Claude Delangle
Jean-Yves Formeau
Timothy McAllister

 

I did listen to Marcel Mule. He is great. I will start down the list on Spotify.

 

This is a great album if you like classical it’s on Spotify and I’m sure other streaming services.

 

+ James Houlik

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I'd add:

Harvey Pittel
Branford Marsalis (on soprano)
and our own @Paul Cohen

 

Raaf Hekkema
Simon Haram
John Harle
Jean-Denis Michat
Asya Fateyeva

 

For saxophone ensembles I like the Mi Bemol Saxophone Ensemble out Japan.

 

Among the old generation of players, you can start with :

Daniel Deffayet
Jean-Marie Londeix
Michel Nouaux
(all of them were former Marcel Mule's students. Deffayet was his successor at the Paris Conservatory).

Among the current generation of players, Vincent David is outstanding.

 

I would include Vincent Abato to the list. His recordings of the Ibert and Glazunov are superb. The recordings are expensive and difficult to find, but they are available to listen to on YouTube.

 

A couple of my favorite Rascher School players:

John-Edward Kelly
Lawrence Gwozdz

 

Check out Dr. Steven Mauk for some beautiful classical tenor.

 

Couldn’t really find anything but a couple of YouTube videos.

 

David Bilger
Dale Underwood

 

Paul Brodie
Canadian saxophonist

 

Man I’m really digging Marcel Mule. He can play so smooth and with such perfect vibrato that sometimes I swear he’s playing a stringed instrument. I’m taking everyone’s suggestions seriously I try to find them on Spotify or YouTube. I really appreciate all the replies.

 

This is awesome. Toccata and Fugue in D minor

 

If you like saxophone ensembles, then you won't find better than this :

(By 'L'ensemble de saxophones français' : Jacques Melzer, Jean-Marie Londeix, Roland Audefroy, Guy Lacour... All among the most distinguished successors of Mule... French School at his absolute best).

...Or this :

(By the 'Quintet sax of Paris'... Which is in fact the 'Garde Républicaine quintet', with André Beun, Georges Porte, Bernard Beaufreton, Miche Trousselet, Maurice Delabre... Again all of them were former Mule's students)

...Or this :

(By the 'Habanera Quartet' with Christian Wirth, Sylvain Malezieux, Fabrizio Mancuso and Gilles Tressot, all of them being former Claude Delangle's students. You won't find a better modern quartet than this one...).

 

Bach again :

(Jean-Denis Michat)

(Joël Versavaud, using circular breathing all music long)

 

Bach, again and again :

(Delangle and Paoletti)

 

Hope this helps you on your way to becoming one.
The A TRAIN was running a bit slow that day and by the time I arrived at the music store the price was marked up from 50 to 60 cents.

Will post a nice quartet album link later.

 

Thank you so much for all the fine music. I’m really enjoying it!


I have a long way to go before tackling this kind of music.

 

(ref post #20)

All three videos were excellent! Thanks for posting!


Have to admit to a near vertigo experience... the alto and soprano players in the Habanera Quartet were quite busy! Don't know how they stayed in their seats! 😁

 

It's in your library now just waiting.
Can be written in easier notes and that's part of the ride when you put your horn to rest.

Ignore Debbie downers and participate.
Private lessons...
Hopefully with a competent Teacher/player.

Kindness
Compassion
.... and knowing how to get students up and running, is often lacking.
Ferrari or Slant Six brained students all need to learn to drive.

Most often heard comment, by the rich and famous in my yachting world was ......
"if my music teacher wasn't an xyzole,
I might have learned to play".
Then they bring a guitar, keys or trombone aboard and begin again.

 

It's a very long list. It looks like Fred Hemke hasn't been named yet and he can't be excluded.

If you like Bach, check out this recording by Chris Condon:

Rascher Quartet playing Bach:

Here's Thomas Giles performing the Brant Concerto: (Rascher's recording is also on youtube)

Here's Harry White playing the Larsson Concerto (first movement, other two are there also) - it's worth turning up the audio to hear his humorous anecdote at the start):

 

Wow those are all great. I especially love the cello suite

EDIT: I’m really loving this classical music. I thought i was a jazz nut but since I discovered classical sax I just can’t get enough. Spotify has a Bach on sax playlist with tons of music on sax. I’ve always loved classical music and would love to play the viola but I have trouble with my shoulders so now I have a way to learn this beautiful music without being in pain.

 

Here's a historical recording :

Michel Nouaux is the first saxophonist to have obtained the 1st Prize at the International Competition for Musical Execution in Geneva with Jacques Ibert's Concertino da Camera. He is still the only one to this day. Nouaux also designed the Selmer Mark VII and... the Selmer mouthpiece S80.

 

Another 'historical' quartet : the "Quatuor Deffayet" playing the famous Introduction et variations sur une ronde populaire (by Gabriel Pierné)

(Sop : Daniel Deffayet - Alto : Henri-René Pollin - Tenor : Jacques Terry - Baryton : Jean Ledieu)

 

Daniel Deffayet (soprano) and Jacques Terry (tenor) playing Ravel's Bolero. They're directed by Karajan (he always asked for Deffayet when he needed a saxophonist).



(at 5 mn 30).

 

The Bolero again, this time with Christophe Bois (soprano) and Philippe Braquart (Tenor) playing with the Paris Orchestra.

Christophe Bois teaches as an assistant of Claude Delangle at the Conservatory or Paris.
Philippe Braquart used to be an assistant of Delangle too.

Both played with the great Diastema quartet.