Octavia Saxophone Quartet
 from Spain Octavia saxophone quartet was founded in 2008 by four former Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid students, the four members graduated with the highest honors and specialized with the best teachers in the current saxophone scene. Octavia quartet has obtained different prizes at International competitions: First Prize at the I International "Yamaha" Competition for saxophone quartets in Madrid (2009, only two months after the creation of the quartet). Second Prize at the XII Certamen de Jóvenes Intérpretes "Pedro Bote" (November, 2009). Finalist at Concurso de Música de Cámara Ecoparque de Trasmiera CMCET (March, 2010). Honour Diploma at the XII Torneo Internazionale de Musica de Verona (TIM) (September, 2010). First Prize at the XIX International Chamber Music Competition "Mirabent I Magrans" (June,2011) They keep an intense artistic activity in the sphere of recitals, pedagogical concerts and charitable events, collaborating also with institutions as Juventudes Musicales de España. Nowadays Octavia members are teachers at Conservatories from Comunidad de Madrid and Comunidad de Castilla y León. |
Quintet - Edison Denisovi. Agitato
Denisov was born in Tomsk, Siberia into the family of a radio physicist, who gave him the very unusual first name Edison, in honour of the great American inventor. He studied mathematics before deciding to spend his life composing. This decision was enthusiastically supported by Dmitri Shostakovich, who gave him lessons in composition. In 1951-56 Denisov studied at the Moscow Conservatory - composition with Vissarion Shebalin, orchestration with Nikolai Rakov, analysis with Viktor Zuckerman and piano with Vladimir Belov. In 1956-59 he composed the opera Ivan-Soldat (Soldier Ivan) in three acts based on Russian folk fairy tales. After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, he taught orchestration and later composition there. Among his pupils were composers Dmitri Smirnov, Elena Firsova, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Sergei Pavlenko, Ivan Sokolov, Yuri Kasparov, Dmitri Kapyrin and Alexander Shchetinsky. Denisov became a leader of the ACM - Association for Contemporary Music reestablished in Moscow in 1990. Later Denisov moved to France, where after an accident and long illness he died in a Parishospital in 1996. Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34 - Johannes Brahms arr. Antonio FelipeFinale: Poco sostenuto - non troppo Allegro - Presto, non troppo. The work began life as a string quintet (completed in 1862 and scored for two violins, viola and two cellos). Brahms transcribed the quintet into a sonata for two pianos (in which form Brahms and Carl Tausig performed it) before taking its final form. Brahms destroyed the original version for string quintet, but published the Sonata as opus 34 bis. The outer movements are more adventurous than usual in terms of harmony and are unsettling in effect. The introduction to the finale, with its rising figure in semitones, is especially remarkable. Both piano and strings play an equally important role throughout this work. |
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