The world-renowned Raschèr Saxophone Quartet will perform Thursday, February 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Wesley Chapel. Since its formation in 1969, the quartet has appeared regularly at concert halls in Europe and the United States, including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Opera Bastille in Paris.
Hailed as the "Uncrowned Kings of the Saxophone" by the Vienna "Zeitung," the ensemble carries on a tradition established in the 1930s by the pioneer of classical saxophone and founding member of the quartet, Sigurd Raschèr. The well-known German musicologist Ulrich Dibelius wrote, "When the Raschèr Quartet plays Bach, the music takes on a seraphic aura-as if the organ and the string quartet had come together." |
