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AIKAN (2011) (F​é​lix Ibarrondo​,​1943)

from Utop​í​as: New Spanish music for saxophone quartet (2013) by SIGMA Project

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Although AIKAN (2008), by Félix Ibarrondo, grant us grosso modo the structure of a classical rondo as a guide, it does so from a refined heterophonic thinking, in which the rhythmic conviction, the walk through the quartet’s range with a preference for the high-pitched zone, and the fond- ness for melismatic developments of melodic elements do not go behind the mastery of whole sound, already explored in Akaïtz (1994) – sort of personal replica to the powerful Rhea (1988) by his friend Francisco Guerrero- and which has found continuity in Izarbil (2009/10), Concerto for Quartet of Saxophones and Orchestra, premiered by SIGMA Project on March, 2013. In the background, another one of his Parisian friends, Maurice Ohana; and referring to Ohana is not gratuitous, if only by noting the coincidence between his series of eleven compositions ‘Sigma’, written from 1965, and the head sign of the ensemble we are discussing today...

Germán Gan Quesada
Musicologist and music critic. Associate Professor (Department of Art and Musicology, University Autonoma of Barcelona).

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from Utop​í​as: New Spanish music for saxophone quartet (2013), released October 31, 2013
SIGMA Project:
Andrés Gomis, soprano sax
Ángel Soria, alto sax
Miguel Romero, tenor sax
Josetxo Silguero, baritone sax

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SIGMA RECORDS (founded in 2012) is the record label of the SIGMA Project quartet, real ‘Ardittis’ of the saxophone (named as such by Scherzo magazine).

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