Quatuor Zahir

Quatuor Zahir – L’Heure bleue (Boulanger, Debussy, Finzi, Poulenc, Ravel, Waksman) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:02 minutes | 971 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Aparté

The four saxophonists of the Quatuor Zahir set the scene for this second recording, which brings together the emblematic composers of twentieth-century France and their masterpieces. Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte and Trois Chansons, Nadia Boulanger’s Trois Pièces, Poulenc’s Chemins de l’amour, Charles d’Orléans’s Trois Chansons, Debussy’s Petite Suite and Rêverie all take on the warm timbres of their instruments in these arrangements for saxophone quartet, revealing new colours. They are echoed by two premières, Graciane Finzi’s Petite Suite and Fabien Waksman’s Les Lunes galantes, conceived as a fifth movement to Debussy’s Petite Suite. Here the Quatuor Zahir is reaffirming its commitment to creation, its virtuosity too, but above all the singularity of its unique musical identity.
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Quatuor Zahir – Zahir (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:12 minutes | 939 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Klarthe Records

This first opus from the Quatuor Zahir is constructed like an opera overture: one finds a succession of subjects, of themes and of colours which, as the quartet follows its path, will most definitely be nourished and developed. The ease with which these saxophonists navigate between the archipelagos of transcription, improvisation, ‘savant’ music, contemporary repertoire or music inspired by popular culture, presents us with, in addition to this rich diversity, the playing palette of a saxophone quartet that is quite extraordinary.
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Quatuor Zahir – L’Heure bleue (Boulanger Debussy Finzi Poulenc Ravel Waksman) (2024) [24Bit-96kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:02 minutes | 1007 MB | Genre: Classique
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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