[nigeld]

Christian Forshaw

 

[nigeld]

The Habanera quartet can do moves as well

 

[Alain Gen]

Nikita Zimin:

 

[babaorum]

The two most important French saxophonists of the last 30 years -Delangle and Fourmeau- playing together :

 

[babaorum]

Delangle and Marsalis playing with the Republican Guard orchestra. Both are outstanding.

 

[babaorum]

Vincent David... outstanding :

 

[Serafino]

So with all this great music, do you think the saxophone is now taken seriously by those in classical music circles? I would surely hope so, but I’m sure they’re are still detractors out there. Classical purists if you will who don’t accept it. What do you all think?

There's a sense in which it doesn't matter whether it is. Who are "those"? What's their impact? What I see is academic saxophone players fighting the good fight, I mean fighting hard by being incredibly competent and playing a lot of worthwhile music. In fact the classical saxophone world has given me more hope for modern art music than anything else I've run into in the last ten years. Are they succeeding, becoming popular, will they survive? I don't know. But I think the answer to that has more to do with what's going on in the culture than the "classical music establishment" which, it must be said, just from a struggle for mere survival is often seen striving to do whatever it can to make itself more relevant to more people.

 

[CarolinaJazz]

This have become my favorite album. I play it constantly. I love his style and tone.