Composer: Henk Badings, Erwin Dressel, Hans Kox, Leonard Küßner, Andreas van Zoelen
Performer: Hannah Koob, Martien Maas, Toon IJzerman
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: 7 Mountain Records
Catalogue: 7MNTN031DIG
Release: 2021
Size: 1.71 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Badings: La Malinconia
Dressel: Partita
02. I. Prélude-Allemande
03. II. Canzone
04. III. Courante
05. IV. Pavane
06. V. Gigue
07. Küßner: Andante for Alto Saxophone & Piano
Kox: The Stranger
08. Introduction
09. I. Allegro
10. II. Presto
11. III. Andante molto
12. IV. Andantino
13. V. Con fantasia
14. VI. Tempo giusto
15. VII. Tempo primo
16. VIII. Furioso
17. IX. Larghetto
18. X. Largo
19. XI. Adagio con gran espressione
20. XII. Epilogue
21. Zoelen: Halvdager, Op. 96
Hannah Koob is a young Dutch-German top saxophonist who dedicates herself with immense energy to play unexplored repertoire for saxophone. “Die Fremde” is a musical expedition along music that has a gloomy but evermore cheerful timbre. Virtuoso solo playing in the rarely performed The Stranger by the Dutchman Hans Kox, this is only the 2nd studio recording of the piece, in which Koob shows the extreme limits of the melodic and dynamic range of her alto saxophone. Lyricism and fluent interplay between piano and saxophone in the Partita by Erwin Dressel and compelling harmonies and ditto melody in Henk Badings’ La Malinconia. Two commissioned compositions complete this energetic and infectious debut: the cinematic Andante by Leonard Küßner and Halvdager by Andreas van Zoelen, the latter in the beautiful, rarely heard combination of saxophone and harmonium.