Dijiei Nagai

In this album, Five verses, there are five instrumental pieces inspired by texts of different authors that put in value the binomial music-poetry from the saxophone-piano or saxophone- electronic binomials. In his first album, Carlos Zaragoza wants to bring together a collection of “songs without words” from 20 th and 21 st century composers André Caplet, Paul Hindemith, Orlando Bass, Vincent David and Luis Naón. The velvety timbre of the alto and soprano saxophone, the presence of air in the sound, and the eminently lyrical writing of the five composers confer an aura of vocality.

First album of the brilliant duo. It is hardly possible to listen to Béla Bartók’s works for violin without evoking, with some nostalgia, the brilliant generation of Hungarian violinists who saw these works come into being: an exceptional school marked by the names of Zoltán Székely or Jelly d’Arányi. To these exemplary personalities, however, must be added the many peasant violinists whom Bartók heard during his wanderings in the countryside – amateur musicians who let their love of music burst forth with naïve sincerity, in spite of rough mannered and clumsy accuracy due to calloused hands and makeshift instruments.