Figures
In his solo piece for alto saxophone, Gerald Resch creates spaces with contemporary playing techniques.
A figurative and highly virtuosic world opens up in the solo piece by Gerald Resch, born in Linz in 1975. "One of my pieces has the movement headings accuracy, lightness, vividness, complexity and speed. These terms define the space in which my music moves," is how the composer describes his work in his own words. In Figures for alto saxophone, an arrangement of the original version for clarinet by Lars Mlekusch and Gerald Resch himself, the spaces are drawn with signals, lines, grids and layers.
The palpable artistic intuition here also suggests a didactic realization of this composition, but only in lessons with very advanced pupils: multiphonics, quarter tones, slap-tongue and altissimo registers demand a level that aspires to the high school of saxophone playing.
Gerald Resch, Figuren, for alto saxophone, D 05 485, € 12.50, Doblinger, Vienna 2013
