Three Movements for Alto Saxophone and Piano - Milan Báchorek
Three Movements for Alto Saxophone and Piano were written in 1989 and they were first performed, in the original setting for clarinet and piano, on 26th May 1991 at a festival concert Janáček's May (Janáčkův máj) in Ostrava. The piece was first played by the clarinettist Valtr Vítek and the pianist Milena Pavlorková. The dormant history of the Three Movements was brought back to life only by the idea of resetting the composition for alto saxophone and piano; an idea that originated from the recent encounter with Roman Fojtíček, a saxophonist from Prague. He took me by surprise by his request for a saxophone piece that he could perform at his concerts. We agreed on an older composition for clarinet and piano that I was to reset, following his request, for alto sax.
With only a few transpositions due to the range of the instrument and the piano part unchanged, the Three Movements were not difficult to rewrite. The premiere of the current version for alto saxophone and piano succeeded in proving the vitality of the composition already on the very first occasion as a studio recording of the Prague radio, and thus helped the piece set off on a new quest for audience.
In acknowledgement of the credit the first performer of the composition takes for the creation of new original music for saxophone, the author dedicates the Three Movements for Alto Saxophone and Piano to Roman Fojtíček.
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