Retur
Åke Parmerud
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1Retur (1992-93) Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, saxophone quartet (Sven Westerberg; Leif Karlborg; Per Hedlund; Jörgen Pettersson)10:35
Programme notes
The melodic and harmonic structure of Retur (Return) is based on some transcribed phrases from a saxophone solo by the legendary American musician Charlie Parker (1920-1955). As one composition in a series of pieces concerned with my relation to music historical artefacts — Alias (1990) and Renaissance (1994) are two other examples from the same series — Retur is a kind of musical letter, written on the paper of time and actually adressed to the sender of the original creation (Parker). The title is Swedish for “return” but also bears connotations to the game of tennis as the basic first stroke delivered by the player who will receive the serve.
For me, various forms of art creation as I perceive and contemplate it, functions as a kind of non-aural conversation unbound by time and space, establishing intellectual, sentimental and aeshetic overlappings in the minds of artists. If Charlie Parker had been alive today I would surely have sent him a copy of the piece. Would he have liked it
Retur was realized in 1992-93 at the composer’s studio for the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet (Stockholms Saxofonkvartett
Premiere
- March 23, 1993, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet • Stockholm New Music Festival, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Composer(s): Åke Parmerud
- Year of composition: 1992-93
- Duration: 10:35
- Instrumentation: saxophone quartet and stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: Svenska Rikskonserter, for Stockholms Saxofonkvartett
- ISRC: CAD500316530
