Richards: Jigsaw for Alto Saxophone and Cello String Music_Double Bass a slow movement

a slow movement

Shortly after finishing his arrangements of the violin solos

Faure's exquisite Fantaisie is one of the jewels in chamber music for which we are indebted to his time at the Paris Conservatoire

but a middle portion in the parallel major key draws again upon Bohemian-like dance idioms

Richards: Jigsaw for Alto Saxophone and Cello String Music_Double Bass a slow movementCode: JP4091 ISMN: 979 0 3019 0504 3 Jigsaw is assembled like a puzzle, with brief musical ideas, each a variant of those that precede it, fitted together in a broadly symmetrical layout. Though the surface of the work should sound loose and free, every musical parameter is controlled through an underlying complex of relationships. Each new idea is accompanied by a subtitle ('will o the wisp', 'bagpipe tune', 'slightly tipsy', 'prison blues', 'very