Vitaly Vatulya - Jacob ter Veldhuis, Steve Reich, Karen Tanaka, Will Gregory: Beyond Words

Familiar to most listeners as a voice from the world of jazz or easy listening, the saxophone performs in a �classical� field with astounding ease, richness, and virtually devilish capacity for reinvention. Classical here is put in quotes, because the music you find on this record belongs to a large, exciting and only loosely charted stylistic area, where it is especially difficult to draw a line between �classical� and �non-classical�. Its boundless palette of tone colour, a plethora of extended playing techniques, a refreshing sound, not too heavy with 19-century associations, a superb gift for sound imitation, � everything makes it the medium for compositional experiment. The saxophone grants a composer virtually unparalleled freedom � especially when combined with electronics.