Claude Delangle
 from France Soloist, researcher and pedagogue, Claude Delangle enjoys playing standard works and enriches the repertoire by collaborating with the most renowned composers, including L. Berio, P. Boulez, Toru Takemitsu, A. Piazzolla, promoting his friends and the younger generation. He appears as a soloist with the most prestigious orchestras (London BBC, BBC Welsh, Saint-Petersburgh Symphony, Novossibirsk Symphony, Radio France, Radio of Finland, WDR Köln, Berlin Philharmonic, Kioi Tokyo, Slovenian, Zagreb Philharmony, Swidish Winds, Orchestre National de Lyon, Toulouse, Florida Symphony, the Metropolitan Tokyo Symphony, the Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Seoul Orchestra, US Navy and West Point Bands, etc.). His numerous recordings for BIS, Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Erato and Verany bring out new musical horizons. Claude Delangle was appointed professor in 1988 at the prestigious Conservatoire National SupZrieur de Musique of Paris. He is in charge of the Claude Delangle saxophone collection at Henri-Lemoine-Paris and plays Selmer-Paris saxophones. He is currently the President of the International Saxophone Committee (ISC). |
Iki-No-Michi (Les voies du souffle) - Ichiro Nodairai. La voie du souffle
ii. La voie de la parole
iii. La voie de l'instrument
iv. La voie de la vie
The piece will be in 4 sections without interruption. All along the piece, the composer works on a strong relationship between the soloist and the live electronic and focuses on human breathing and words in a semantically, poetic, technical and philosophical way. Claude Delangle developed a life long relationship with this preeminent Japanese composer since 1978. He performed and recorded "Arabesque 3" for alto saxophone and piano, "Dashu No Sho" for mezzo soprano and alto saxophone and his" Saxophone Quartet" that he premiered in 1985 at the Washington DC World Saxophone Congress. |
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