Sidney Sax

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Sidney Sax (1913–2005) was a British violinist. He was a noted orchestral leader and also a contractor, arranging personnel for many recording sessions. In 1964, he jointly founded the National Philharmonic Orchestra, London together with Charles Gerhardt.

The National Philharmonic Orchestra, which was later incorporated in 1970, was a

freelance orchestra that included amongst its players leading musicians from all the London orchestras. Sax had often contracted the leaders of most of London's orchestras to populate his first violin section.[1]

Recording career

Sax brought together the

Bizet Carmen and L'Arlesienne Suites, and at EMI's Abbey Road Studios where Stokowski made his very last recordings in 1977, of Mendelssohn
's Italian Symphony and Bizet's Symphony in C.

Bernard Herrmann was another conductor who recorded with Sax and the National Philharmonic, mainly in film music by himself and other composers, for the

Unicorn
label.

Sax was the leader of the Ariel Quartet, a

Korngold, etc.) under the pseudonym Josef Sakonov in which he also conducted the London Festival Orchestra
with his violin bow (London 444 786-2).

Sax also took part in many notable recordings for a number of famous artists, including

All You Need is Love
" among them.

A further large part of his career involved playing on the soundtracks of many films, of a variety of genres, including

Jesus of Nazareth
.

Further work

Sax also contributed to broadcasts for the BBC, for the Light Programme, with his ensemble 'Sidney Sax and the Harlequins' an eight-piece string ensemble.[3] Sax also directed a larger broadcasting combination called the Sidney Sax strings.

Sax was featured on recordings of film scores by Roy Budd, e.g. The Internecine Project.

References

  1. ^ "Max Salpeter". Telegraph. 9 February 2010.
  2. ^ "Clarinet Quintet and Echoes String Quartet". Amazon. Retrieved 10 November 2019. Includes an image of a CD back cover that lists the member of the Ariel Quartet
  3. ISBN 1-905226-19-5
    , p. 39 (2005).

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