After a successful performance a few months ago, listening to it again very nearly brought a year to my eye. This will probably remain the hardest sax ensemble piece I’ve played for years to come.
Glad to hear your performance went well! The work was written for a particularly virtuosic ensemble, so I wasn't being particularly mindful about the technical challenge aspect at the time. I'm pleased you took it on!
Wonderful writing. Thank you for contributing to our instrument's library! I hope you are encouraged to write for more saxophone. You've got the ear for it.
I just received this piece, and I can’t WAIT to play it. As the soprano player, I physically can’t express how beautiful the first movement is, and as a composer myself, the whole piece is undeniably amazing! PLEASE do more!
finally, i have a purchased copy of this piece in my possession. it’s the piece that inspired me to get some of my friends together and make a quartet. can’t wait to start practicing
I've said it once and I'll say it again, this is beautiful. It's definitely my favorite saxophone music and it's up their for all music. 10/10 love it.
This has to be one of the most beautiful pieces for a sax ensemble I have ever had the pleasure to listen to, I hope to one day find myself a group and play this piece!
Beautiful piece, masterfully composed. The little counterlines and harmonies are truly magnificent. Pieces like this remind me why I do music. Amazing!
This piece is so great that me and my high school friends are doing that third movement for a concert soon and plan to try and do the whole thing next year
Brilliant to say the least. This kind of piece is what got me into composing and music in the first place. When I say I adore contemporary composition this is exactly what I’m referring to.
I never usually comment but this is really good. I can’t wait for me and a few friends to play this. This is an excellent piece Edit: Bought the piece! Can’t wait to play this with my group for our spring concert!
Give our quartet a couple weeks and we will have bellows and maybe activation uploaded on my channel Edit: Yeah we weren't good enough then. Now that I'm college we will try again with a new quartet.
me and a couple of my friends are playing this piece for our spring concert, sadly we had to shorten it down to movements II and V, but i’m still super excited to play this piece!!
I find myself constantly listening to this music! I just love the themes and how they all mix together so well in the end it’s truly telling a story! I’m not anywhere near the level, but I would be proud if I could be able to play all these pieces with an ensemble 😁
This is pure beauty! I play tenor and this is a perfect addition to the saxophone musical library. Activation has to be my favorite movement. I cannot express in words how wonderful this is! Thank you for composing this masterpiece. I wish you much success composing for many years to come! ❤❤🙏🙏
Amazing piece, everything about it is stunning and captures the ideas and strengths of each instrument amazingly. I love all the contrasting sounds in all the first four movements that all end up coming together to create the incredible soundscape and theme of movement 5. Composers like you are the reason I want to be one so bad, we love coming up with ideas and expressing them through music. Me and my buddies are thinking of playing this for a contest at our school in May of next year (2025) where we will hopefully play all five moments in the entirety. For most of my ensemble, we will be seniors in high school next year and we all think this would be an amazing piece to end our high school careers on. I’m actually a clarinet player but I’ve taken on the task of learning soprano sax to contribute with my group. We’re all super excited and can’t wait to see what more you have in store and what we can accomplish. From one Lachlan to another, keep up the amazing work!!!😁
Amazing 🎉 I listen to this song every day it is so good and perfect ❤ I am actually a alto saxophonist I am currently trying to learn the tenor sax part my fav. Part is the Activation 🎉
@@kewntube Me and my highschool ensemble are planning on playing this thing man. I have to say, it is absolutely remarkable. Amazing piece. It's a such a nice blend of chords and different moving bits and pieces. Thank you for creating this wonderful piece of music.
Beautiful writing! Please get a sax quartet to perform and record it. It really needs the humanity of 4 people working with each other’s ideas. But I think the writing is there. Keep up the good work. This is a fine addition to the repertory of an instrument that is possibly at its chamber music zenith when playing with four versions of itself, rather than as a solo instrument in orchestral or recital concerts. But maybe your writing will elevate it in those other concerts as well if you keep it up. Congratulations on a well-composed quartet!
Hi @Shooshie128. Thanks for your kind words! I'm casually optimistic that some group out there will have a crack at it at some point, and upload their effort. I'll be sure to link to it if I become aware of a recording.
i love it! gracias por compartirlo con nosotros, la verdad que muy hermoso. espero en el futuro ser capaz de adquirirlo y poder interpretarlo. ♡ aguante el saxofón !
Awesome writing, Lachlan! You must be a saxophonist. All the movements have great character. Sparks was giving me Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat! 😁 I'll definitely be ordering this to bring with me to a saxophone retreat this coming summer.
Thanks Jeffrey! Not a saxophonist, just an enthusiast. I see what you mean about the similarities to Smalltown Boy, especially with sections C/D sharing a very similar chord progression and angular accompanying motif. Thanks for sharing!
Gonna be playing this with my quartet next spring 💪 (Probably only gonna do mvts 2, 3, 5 because we’re high schoolers and probably won’t be able to learn the music well that fast)
Hello! Student at mars hill university here. We have a woodwind ensemble here and we would like to ask permission to arrange this for our instrumentation with bari sax, 2 bass clarinet, 1 clarinet and 1 flute. I play bari and have been wanting to play this for a year now. Came across this song and just fell in love with it. Thank you! Hope to hear back soon!!
Thank you so much for this amazing piece! When I first heard it I knew that this was something I wanted to perform so I purchased it right away! I'm not sure if you are able to confirm my order on Murphy Music Press, but I was wondering if u had access to an E-Print of the music that my ensemble and I could use as it shipped? Thanks once again!
One possibility is that your shipping address was set from PayPal, if that's how you paid. I'd suggest contacting Murphy Music Press for clarity on this point.
Nice Music, I just ordered it from Murphy music press, and I'm excited to perform with my quartet, I'm from France, would it be possible to get a digital copy (PDF) in addition/or instead postal shipping? Thanks in advance.
very great, watched the whole thing which is rare for even a 4 minute video, but the ending ): you ended the song on an F major chord in the key of Bb! It feels unfinished
Good analysis! There is deliberate ambiguity around the tonality, particularly in relation to the 3 prominent recurring chords. Sometimes it is represented as IV, vi, V ... elsewhere it is VIb, i, VIIb - notably when first established in the 3rd movement. Either way, you are correct. This is actually the case throughout the entire work - only the first movement ends unambiguously on the tonic.
oh excuse me, may I ask the part3 C。that is the baritone sax playing low A ,i remember that we can only bow to B flate on sax……right,I am also a Alto Sax player,but I can only blow way down to the low B fate ,say my English is actually not that good,whether there are any wrong place ,I apologize, thank you~
Some baritones - including the one in the ensemble this piece was written for - are capable of playing the concert C2. If your instrument can't, you might like to selectively transpose some of those notes up an octave. Good luck!
Is there any way i could get a digital copy of the music while my actual copy ships? I just bought it the other day, and i would like to start playing it asap
A very beautiful piece, that I listen since.. At least one year ! And now, this is the summmer holidays, so I have the time and I would like to record it and maybe post it (it will take a little bit time lol). Are you okay with it ?
你好! Yes, this was written in MuseScore. The handbook on the MuseScore website is an excellent reference, and there are plenty of good RUclips videos that can teach you the basics.
@@kewntube ok！ thank you for tolding me that 謝謝😊 I really love the lessons on RUclips teaching musescore, but it is all Japanese and no Chinese translation haha,it's good for me to learn Japanese
@adrianoseresi3525 Interesting! I'm struggling to find the Symphonic Dances in there, though I'd be interested to know if others hear a similarity. If you'd suggested Shchedryk, I might have agreed with you!
@@Kaiden.Kristek The audio for this video was produced seperately. I exported MIDI from MuseScore, shipped it over to Logic Pro, and patched it through to the VSL Saxophones library. And then spent far too long playing around with articulation keyswitches! 😃
For those (like me) who have been yearning for a live recording of this piece in its entirety, I just found this gem hidden deep within the algorithm! ruclips.net/video/bdqNkwX5ftA/видео.html
Hello, I'm sorry, but can I transfer the score in the video to the program and print it out and play it? If it doesn't work, I'm going to buy points right away!
Hi. You could potentially screenshot the video one page at a time if you wanted a print of the conductor's score. If you are after the individual parts, there's a link to purchase in the video description.
After a successful performance a few months ago, listening to it again very nearly brought a year to my eye. This will probably remain the hardest sax ensemble piece I’ve played for years to come.
Glad to hear your performance went well! The work was written for a particularly virtuosic ensemble, so I wasn't being particularly mindful about the technical challenge aspect at the time. I'm pleased you took it on!
Wonderful writing. Thank you for contributing to our instrument's library! I hope you are encouraged to write for more saxophone. You've got the ear for it.
If you ended up playing it, I'd love to see the recording!
My quartet is performing this next Sunday for our quartet recital! Thank you for writing such an amazing work! It fits our group sooo well!!
I just received this piece, and I can’t WAIT to play it. As the soprano player, I physically can’t express how beautiful the first movement is, and as a composer myself, the whole piece is undeniably amazing! PLEASE do more!
finally, i have a purchased copy of this piece in my possession. it’s the piece that inspired me to get some of my friends together and make a quartet. can’t wait to start practicing
"Bellows" is such a great piece, one of the few times where the soprano outshines the rest of the quartet for me.
I transposed this for alto sax, tenor, trombone, and flute. this song is amazing!
and i was the trombone player 😅
can I have the transscription?
@@chromium864 how would i give it to you?
I've said it once and I'll say it again, this is beautiful. It's definitely my favorite saxophone music and it's up their for all music. 10/10 love it.
This has to be one of the most beautiful pieces for a sax ensemble I have ever had the pleasure to listen to, I hope to one day find myself a group and play this piece!
Beautiful piece, masterfully composed. The little counterlines and harmonies are truly magnificent. Pieces like this remind me why I do music. Amazing!
This piece is so great that me and my high school friends are doing that third movement for a concert soon and plan to try and do the whole thing next year
me and the rest of my quartet is strongly considering playing this for our next concert, wonderful piece
update!: we are now buying the music and will be performing it next semester.
If you do please post it I would love to hear this piece preformed by real players!
@@remilius1where did you buy it? i can’t seem to figure that out. i’d love to play this!
any update on this?
@@remilius1
@@hannahherrmann4921 Hi Hannah! There's a link to the publisher in the video description.
Great composition!
This is one of the most wonderful quartets I have ever listened to! Thank you for this blessing to my ears
Brilliant to say the least. This kind of piece is what got me into composing and music in the first place. When I say I adore contemporary composition this is exactly what I’m referring to.
This is genuinely one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard. The second and fifth movements in particular are incredible
Jesus, i cried to Gears :'( Beautiful is an understatement
I never usually comment but this is really good. I can’t wait for me and a few friends to play this. This is an excellent piece
Edit: Bought the piece! Can’t wait to play this with my group for our spring concert!
So great! We need a recording with real players!
Give our quartet a couple weeks and we will have bellows and maybe activation uploaded on my channel
Edit: Yeah we weren't good enough then. Now that I'm college we will try again with a new quartet.
@@ethanbruley8858 DO ITTT
@@ethanbruley8858 Please do it! I would love to hear this piece with real people
@@ethanbruley8858ay
@@ethanbruley8858so did you do it?
Straight off of a first listen, I love this-I will bring it up when we next talk about programming!
Just purchased the piece with my friends!!! It finally came in cant wait
me and a couple of my friends are playing this piece for our spring concert, sadly we had to shorten it down to movements II and V, but i’m still super excited to play this piece!!
Nice selection. Good luck with the concert!
I'm in high school and play bari. Me and some of my friends just had our first rehearsal of movements 2 and 3 and I love how it sounds! Great writing.
Absolutely wonderful. In a way its like color with a fine tip but with soft strokes its a masterpiece. Inspiration through the roof.
This is gorgeous! Especially movement four, genius.
This is just so beautiful. Thank you for bringing to the world!
I find myself constantly listening to this music! I just love the themes and how they all mix together so well in the end it’s truly telling a story! I’m not anywhere near the level, but I would be proud if I could be able to play all these pieces with an ensemble 😁
My friends and I just bought this, can't wait to play it!
This is pure beauty! I play tenor and this is a perfect addition to the saxophone musical library. Activation has to be my favorite movement. I cannot express in words how wonderful this is! Thank you for composing this masterpiece. I wish you much success composing for many years to come! ❤❤🙏🙏
Amazing piece, everything about it is stunning and captures the ideas and strengths of each instrument amazingly. I love all the contrasting sounds in all the first four movements that all end up coming together to create the incredible soundscape and theme of movement 5. Composers like you are the reason I want to be one so bad, we love coming up with ideas and expressing them through music. Me and my buddies are thinking of playing this for a contest at our school in May of next year (2025) where we will hopefully play all five moments in the entirety. For most of my ensemble, we will be seniors in high school next year and we all think this would be an amazing piece to end our high school careers on. I’m actually a clarinet player but I’ve taken on the task of learning soprano sax to contribute with my group. We’re all super excited and can’t wait to see what more you have in store and what we can accomplish. From one Lachlan to another, keep up the amazing work!!!😁
Thanks, fellow Lachlan! Good luck with your music journey. I hope the contest goes well for you in '25!
Great piece for saxophones! Bravo!!!
This needs a recording! Love movement 3.
I love this piece so much! We’ve put together an ensemble because we fell in love with it. Great job composing :)
This piece is amazing! I love how you brought all the themes in the last movement
Thank you very much for sharing Lachlan, this has been thoroughly enjoyable.
Amazing composition! An inventive and demanding tour de force.
Also gotta shout out the great Bari Sax part at 3:40
Beautiful piece.
What a masterpiece, shame that this is the first time i'm hearing it.
Splendid composition! I love the tone and harmony.
This is so freaking cool, I might choose this as my group piece
this is incredibly good! I've shared it with my friends and they've loved it to! Keep it up!
I can’t begin to express how much I love each part and their melodies. I find myself humming at least one part of the whole song
ALSO THE SOPRANO SAX SUSTAIN IN BELLOWS IS A STUNNING MASTERPIECe
@@juicymango8400 Glad you like it! Originally written as circular breathing, however in the end I took pity on the performer.
@@kewntube And I can't thank you enough for taking said pity because I can't circular breathe to save my life lmao
Ngl this has blown me away. Keep writing good music!
My quartet is playing this for our chamber night and I’m learning saxophone for this piece thank you for your wonderful piece
Def one of my favorites and inspiration for my recent sax quartet
My quartet is still deciding on what to play, but I'm trying to get my leader to choose this one, it's so beautiful and it looks like a lot of fun.
Really great stuff! I really enjoyed that. Thank you for sharing!
That is a great piece of music, love it!
this is the greatest thing ive ever heard!!!!
this is incredible really nice work
Simply amazing!
This is amazing!
Amazing 🎉 I listen to this song every day it is so good and perfect ❤ I am actually a alto saxophonist I am currently trying to learn the tenor sax part my fav. Part is the Activation 🎉
You should write more for saxophone quartet! I've suggested this to the quartet I'm in, and would love to hear more stuff from you!
New music in the works. Expected 2025!
@@kewntube Awesome! Can't wait to hear it!
This is, as the kids would say, lit.
This is a gorgeous piece. Absolutely love it. Has anyone performed it?
Rehearsed, but not performed. The last few years have not been good for gathering in a confined space to blow air around!
@@kewntube Me and my highschool ensemble are planning on playing this thing man. I have to say, it is absolutely remarkable. Amazing piece. It's a such a nice blend of chords and different moving bits and pieces. Thank you for creating this wonderful piece of music.
Beautiful writing! Please get a sax quartet to perform and record it. It really needs the humanity of 4 people working with each other’s ideas. But I think the writing is there. Keep up the good work. This is a fine addition to the repertory of an instrument that is possibly at its chamber music zenith when playing with four versions of itself, rather than as a solo instrument in orchestral or recital concerts. But maybe your writing will elevate it in those other concerts as well if you keep it up. Congratulations on a well-composed quartet!
Hi @Shooshie128. Thanks for your kind words! I'm casually optimistic that some group out there will have a crack at it at some point, and upload their effort. I'll be sure to link to it if I become aware of a recording.
Muito bonito ouvir esse talentoso quarteto. Parabéns!!!
Obrigado!
oh how i love contemporary composition
i love it! gracias por compartirlo con nosotros, la verdad que muy hermoso. espero en el futuro ser capaz de adquirirlo y poder interpretarlo. ♡
aguante el saxofón !
this is beautiful
That barry 3:43
Love it!
Cant wait to play this w me and my quartet :D
Awesome writing, Lachlan! You must be a saxophonist. All the movements have great character. Sparks was giving me Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat! 😁 I'll definitely be ordering this to bring with me to a saxophone retreat this coming summer.
Thanks Jeffrey! Not a saxophonist, just an enthusiast. I see what you mean about the similarities to Smalltown Boy, especially with sections C/D sharing a very similar chord progression and angular accompanying motif. Thanks for sharing!
@@kewntubeyou don’t play sax?!?! I couldn’t tell from this, it really seems like a love letter to the instrument, I cannot stop listening to it!
Nice, sounds great! It would also be a pretty good string quartet
Thanks! Yes, I've had the same thought - I'd be most interested to see a string quartet have a crack at it!
Impresionante ✅
This is fucking awesome.
Gonna be playing this with my quartet next spring 💪 (Probably only gonna do mvts 2, 3, 5 because we’re high schoolers and probably won’t be able to learn the music well that fast)
how nice and buitiful it is ,may I have a copy and play with my friends please, just for practice
This is an awesome piece! I dig the style. Also, I'm impressed by the sound samples. Do you know what sample library was used?
Thanks! The samples are Vienna Symphonic Library: Saxophones.
Very beautiful piece! Is there also a digital version for sale?
Thank you Lukas! There is no digital-only purchase option, however a PDF version is available with proof of hard copy purchase.
Hello! Student at mars hill university here. We have a woodwind ensemble here and we would like to ask permission to arrange this for our instrumentation with bari sax, 2 bass clarinet, 1 clarinet and 1 flute. I play bari and have been wanting to play this for a year now. Came across this song and just fell in love with it. Thank you! Hope to hear back soon!!
Sounds great! Go for it.
Thank you so much for this amazing piece! When I first heard it I knew that this was something I wanted to perform so I purchased it right away! I'm not sure if you are able to confirm my order on Murphy Music Press, but I was wondering if u had access to an E-Print of the music that my ensemble and I could use as it shipped? Thanks once again!
Hi Hayden. Send me your details through the contact section of my website (See the About page), and I'll see what can be done about this. Cheers!
@@kewntube Alright gotcha! I sent over my transaction ID for the purchase, is there anything else you need?
@@haydenk5995 Thanks Hayden. Leave it with me!
for those of you who have purchased it how does it work? when we bought it it didn’t ask for address or anything
One possibility is that your shipping address was set from PayPal, if that's how you paid. I'd suggest contacting Murphy Music Press for clarity on this point.
Nice Music, I just ordered it from Murphy music press, and I'm excited to perform with my quartet, I'm from France, would it be possible to get a digital copy (PDF) in addition/or instead postal shipping? Thanks in advance.
Hi Philippe! Please send me your details via the contact section of my website (see the About page).
very great, watched the whole thing which is rare for even a 4 minute video, but the ending ):
you ended the song on an F major chord in the key of Bb! It feels unfinished
Good analysis!
There is deliberate ambiguity around the tonality, particularly in relation to the 3 prominent recurring chords. Sometimes it is represented as IV, vi, V ... elsewhere it is VIb, i, VIIb - notably when first established in the 3rd movement.
Either way, you are correct. This is actually the case throughout the entire work - only the first movement ends unambiguously on the tonic.
oh excuse me, may I ask the part3 C。that is the baritone sax playing low A ,i remember that we can only bow to
B flate on sax……right,I am also a Alto Sax player,but I can only blow way down to the low B fate ,say my English is actually not that good,whether there are any wrong place ,I apologize, thank you~
Some baritones - including the one in the ensemble this piece was written for - are capable of playing the concert C2. If your instrument can't, you might like to selectively transpose some of those notes up an octave. Good luck!
@@kewntube oh OK, I learned a new lesson on Sax thank you too!😊
@@kewntube and I will try your advice, thank you for toding me that😆
tolding (sry wrong English, let me fix that
Absolutely great composition. How old are you? This is wonderful, keep writing sax!
Extremely old, hailing originally from the 20th century. I'll write more if I survive long enough!
Wow
Is there any way i could get a digital copy of the music while my actual copy ships? I just bought it the other day, and i would like to start playing it asap
Hi. Drop me a line via the About page of my website and we'll sort this out!
It says the page is down, unfortunately, so should i wait for that to be fixed?
@@ThatOneGuyNamedToby Browse to the 'About' page (use the menu button top right if you're on a mobile device), and you'll find the contact form!
@@kewntubeah, i just sent one, thank you!
A very beautiful piece, that I listen since.. At least one year ! And now, this is the summmer holidays, so I have the time and I would like to record it and maybe post it (it will take a little bit time lol). Are you okay with it ?
Go for it!
Best part is D at 10:22
Other than the "solos" in the last piece, this is written amazingly and sounds amazing too
Thanks! Yes, in retrospect, perhaps the annotation "melody" might have been more appropriate. Solo felt a bit more showy, so I went with it.
@@kewntube either way, it's a great piece and you did amazing
How can I get the sheet music for this? I want to play it!!!
Hi Alex. Link in video description!
Hi! If I'm able to, would it be fine if I transcribed this for a brass quartet by any chance?
Go for it!
Hello I was wondering if there is a way to buy a pdf version instead of getting a physical copy sent out??
There is no digital-only option unfortunately, however the PDF version is available with proof of hard copy purchase.
is this mad by musescore, I am now learning it to,if you want ,I wish you make some video to teach us how to use it ,thank you 😆 subscribers already !
made from ,my English is so bad haha ,actually I am a Taiwanese, so I wish the video also have a Chinese translation haha 🤣 just my personal opinion
你好! Yes, this was written in MuseScore. The handbook on the MuseScore website is an excellent reference, and there are plenty of good RUclips videos that can teach you the basics.
@@kewntube ok！ thank you for tolding me that 謝謝😊 I really love the lessons on RUclips teaching musescore, but it is all Japanese and no Chinese translation haha,it's good for me to learn Japanese
Hido you have the parts for clarinet quartet?
Sax only, sorry.
I just purchased this piece and tried to find the pdf version you were talking about earlier and I couldn't find it. How can i access it?
Hello! Send me your details via the contact section of my website (see the About page) and we'll sort this out.
Is there a way to buy a digital copy of this piece? Sorry, I just can't find it. I only found printed version
Hi Boris! There is no digital-only option, however a PDF version is available with proof of hard copy purchase.
@@kewntube Nice. Thanks!
👌👏👏👏
I can hear a certain Russian inspiration in that gears movement. Hmm!??! I wonder what it could be… 🤪
I wasn't specifically going for Russian, but I do love Eastern European harmonies! I'd be interested to know what it reminds you of.
@@kewntubeI was alluding to the fact that the famous saxophone melody from Rachmaninoff's symphonic dances is clearly audible.
@adrianoseresi3525 Interesting! I'm struggling to find the Symphonic Dances in there, though I'd be interested to know if others hear a similarity.
If you'd suggested Shchedryk, I might have agreed with you!
Is this available for AATB ?
SATB only, sorry!
Unfortunate but amazing piece. @@kewntube
What music notation software do you use?
This one was written in MuseScore 3.6, though I heartily recommend version 4!
@@kewntube How do you get the saxes to sound so good??? They never want to cooperate with me 😂
@@Kaiden.Kristek The audio for this video was produced seperately. I exported MIDI from MuseScore, shipped it over to Logic Pro, and patched it through to the VSL Saxophones library. And then spent far too long playing around with articulation keyswitches! 😃
For those (like me) who have been yearning for a live recording of this piece in its entirety, I just found this gem hidden deep within the algorithm!
ruclips.net/video/bdqNkwX5ftA/видео.html
Hell yeah! Great job by @ViertakteQuartet.
Hello, I'm sorry, but can I transfer the score in the video to the program and print it out and play it? If it doesn't work, I'm going to buy points right away!
Hi. You could potentially screenshot the video one page at a time if you wanted a print of the conductor's score. If you are after the individual parts, there's a link to purchase in the video description.
Then can I capture the score in the video and play the instrument?
@@김세현-t4d Go for your life!
Thank you! I will see this score and play a great musical instrument with four players!
Maybe our team will play this music for the first time in Korea!
WPBIIITDMB
I'll just have to take your word on that!