Name: In Memoriam for saxophone quartet [excerpt] by James Williamson
Duration: 3 min 54 s
Description: Winning piece of the inaugural Lunar Saxophone Quartet Composers Competition 2007. Recorded on the LSQ album 'Flux' (Signum Classics)

for Saxophone Quartet. Premiered at Royaumont Abbey, France, by the Xasax Quartet. September 2012

I. Panorama
II. Hero & Leander
III. Autumn
IV. Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves

Each movement takes a painting by American artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) as its focus. The way in which words can be used in art and music is central to the piece: word as sound, word as meaning, word as shape.

Four Illuminations (2012) for Saxophone Quartet

for flute, clarinet, alto saxophone and cello.
Commissioned by the London Sinfonietta

Positive/Negative Space for flute, clarinet, alto sax & cello

Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble; Dir. Guillaume Bourgogne - 2012

but I have many friends, and some of them are with me

Michael Finnissy: Banumbirr

Richard Glover: Logical Harmonies

Recorded live at St John's Smith Square, London. 04.04.16

Enno Poppe: Gelöschte Lieder [extract]

Shadow - Rebecca Saunders

Suspect Device is an extensive reimagining of the classic Stiff Little Fingers song of the same name. Performed here by the fantastic Decibel.

Suspect Device - Decibel

Porya Hatami | Aaron Martin | Roberto Attanasio ​ - 'Sallaw' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-58
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ Wooden box special edition CD (ltd. 50)/ DL
Release date: March 1st, 2019
Pre-orders start February 15th

“Sallaw” is a Kurdish word that expresses the passing of time, and on this new album the three sound artists have found a way of expressing that notion in music. Four tracks of slowly unfolding ambience make up this collection, each piece named after different months, again in Kurdish. The four sections represent the different seasons and their movement through time.

Mastered by Fraser McGowan
Artwork by Hawar Amini

Buy CD / DL

PORYA HATAMI | AARON MARTIN | ROBERTO ATTANASIO - Sallaw (Album sampler)

For bass flute, bass clarinet, bass oboe and live-electronics, performed by Ensemble Mosaik (Bettina Junge, bass fl; Simon Strasser, bass oboe; Christian Vogel, bass clar)

!!---please listen on good speakers/headphones, there's a lot happening in the <100Hz and >10kHz freq bands---!!

Commissioned by and dedicated to Ensemble Mosaik.
Premiered on 1.8.2020 at AckerStadt Palast, Berlin. 
Recording on 28.7.2020 at Vivaldi Saal, Berlin.
Recording engineer: Arne Vierck, editing and mastering: Stefan Prins

Inhibition Space #1 (2020)- for bass flute, bass clarinet, bass oboe & live-electronics

Winning piece of the inaugural Lunar Saxophone Quartet Composers Competition 2007. Recorded on the LSQ album 'Flux' (Signum Classics)

In Memoriam for saxophone quartet [excerpt]

Composer based in York, UK.

Contact: jam.williamson@gmail.com

In Memoriam for saxophone quartet [excerpt]

James Williamson

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