Andrew List, composer:
My Night Fantasy for Alto-Saxophone and Piano was commissioned by MMTA and is written for saxophonist Philipp Staudlin and pianist Yoko Hagino. The work is in one movement with a duration of 11 minutes.
Inspired by the Cosmos and space travel, Night Fantasy is a work that explores the relationship and interplay of color, texture and nuance between the saxophone and the piano. Like the Fantasias of the Elizabethan Virginalist composers of the 17th century, my work is also improvisational in nature. The piece freely develops and unfolds melodically and rhythmically and coloristically with a variety of different sections and tempos. As the piece progresses it builds in intensity leading to and ending with a virtuosic cadenza.
