Salvatore Sciarrino (1947-)/Carlo Gesulado (1566-1613)
Itene, o miei sospiri
Tu m'uccidi, o crudele

Salvatore Sciarrino (1947-)/Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fughetta
Kyrie "Gott Vater in Ewigkeit"

Salvatore Sciarrino (1947-)/Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Allegro L. 223
Andante L. 257
Allegrissimo L. 215

Salvatore Sciarrino (1947-)/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Adagio K. 361

Salvatore Sciarrino (1947-)/Cole Porter (1891-1964)
I've Got You Under My Skin

Salvatore Sciarrino (1947-)/Anonyme
O Virgo splendens
Tres dous compains

Salvatore Sciarrino (1947-)/George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Who Cares?

Quatuor de Saxophone Bros

Gerard McChrystal, saxophone soprano
Antonio Felipe Belijar, saxophone contralto
Joao Pedro Silva, saxophone ténor
Mario Marzi, saxophone baryton

The saxophone quartet is an incredibly homogeneous and flexible grouping, which was conceived more than 100 years ago, but little used outside jazz and is thus still to be explored. The Italian saxophone school has recently blossomed from the French school, and the technical quality of instrumentalists has much grown. In the meantime, in all of Europe an original chamber repertoire has begun to form around the various formations possible with this instrument. It was precisely the difficulty of combining something else with this composition that alerted me to a certain lack of identity in the saxophone quartet, since it cannot draw, as all other instruments can, on its own Pre-Romantic repertory. Therefore I have tried to make a real contribution to resolving the problem of repertory, in my view central, and I have thought not so much of the individual compositions as of cycles. In fact, I have conceived two programme halves, in which I have included some encore pieces. These half concertos to me seem ideal to approach as one wishes a contemporary goal, both mixed and unitary. The first proposal is called Pagine, an open anthology on different centuries and genres. In combining the pieces I have avoided stereotypes; in fact, I have aimed at the inexhaustible modernity of the masters of the past, which today it is fashionable shamelessly to ignore. I have never claimed to have said everything and I leave space for my friends, to whose wedding with the saxophone my efforts are dedicated (Salvatore Sciarrino).