(Re)Mix (AMP Recordings, 2023)

Re)Mix by Assembly Quartet, is an exciting new album featuring the music of 20th and 21st century composers Avner Dorman, Alfred Schnittke, and Bill Ryan.

The title (RE)Mix has a dual meaning. First, it pays tribute to Dorman’s 2007 composition Jerusalem Mix, renamed here as Jerusalem (Re)Mix. Second, all three works featured on this album are reimagined from their original instrumentation for SATB Saxophone Quartet + piano, with the Ryan featuring an added drum set.

The Program:

Jerusalem (Re)Mix - Quintet for Saxophone Quartet and Piano              Avner Dorman | ed. J. Heisler

1 –    I. Jerusalem Mix

2 –    II. The Wailing Wall 

3 –    III. Wedding March 

4 –    IV. Blast

5 –    V. Adhan (call to prayer) 

6 –    VI. Jerusalem (Re)Mix 

 

Quintet - for Saxophone Quartet and Piano                                                    Alfred Schnittke | ed. J. Heisler

7 –    I. Moderato

8 –    II. Tempo di Valse 

9 –    III. Andante

10 –  IV. Lento 

11 –  V. Moderato Pastorale 

12 –  Original Blend                                                                                       Bill Ryan | ed. J. Heisler

 
 
 
 
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In Search of Stillness (AMP Recordings, 2017)

In Search of Stillness features four premiere recordings of commissioned works:  Marilyn Shrude's energy flows nervously... in search of stillness, Benjamin Taylor's Digital Goldfish, Kurt Isaacson's Flickering Species, and Simon Fink's Mic Check. Also included on the album is John Fitz Rogers' Prodigal Child. The album was recorded in 2016 at Stone Soup Studios, and is made possible in part by a grant from the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music. 

The Program:

  1. Digital Goldfish - Benjamin Taylor

  2. energy flows nervously... in search of stillness - Marilyn Shrude

  3. Flickering Species - Kurt Isaacson

  4. Mic Check - Simon Fink

  5. Prodigal Child - John Fitz Rogers

 
 

Putting It all together (2011)

Assembly's debut recording from 2011 features several standard works from the saxophone quartet canon along with transcriptions of works by Puccini and J.C. Bach. (Limited copies still available.)

The Program:

  1. Wapango - Paquito D'Rivera

  2. Premier Quatuor, Op. 53 - J.B. Singelée

  3. Serenade Melancolique - Robert Clérisse

  4. Grave et Presto - Jean Rivier

  5. Crisantemi - Giacomo Puccini

  6. Chinese Rag - Jean Matitia

  7. Quartet in E-flat, Op. 8, No.3 - J.C. Bach

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