Sonata in C# - Fernande Decruck
0I. Très Modéré, Expressif
III. Fileuse
IV. Nocturne et Final
Fernande Decruck (1896-1954)
A contemporary of Ibert and Messiaen, Fernande Decruck dedicated this Sonata in C# (1943) to Marcel Mule. Decruck composed over 40 works for the saxophone, but after her death much of her output was forgotten or lost, eclipsed by newer works in the rapidly-growing saxophone repertoire. It is only in recent years that recordings and new publications of her music have allowed the world to rediscover Decruck's legacy. The work is composed in a traditional four-movement setting: a sonata-form opening movement, a slow second movement, a movement entitled "Fileuse" (spinning song), substituting for the traditional scherzo, and a rondo-like finale. The work incorporates trends of impressionism through its harmonic vocabulary, chordal planing, and pentatonic scales, and polytonality.
Morgan Smallwood - Saxophone
Linli Wang - Piano