[“SLSO fires on all cylinders with creative concert featuring ‘Bolero’”]
On Connesson’s ‘A Kind of Trane’: “Much of it sounded like dazzling improvisation…complete mastery of every nuance of phrase and melody”

John Huxhold St. Louis Post-Dispatch (3/6/20)

“a titan of contemporary music and the instrument in general”

Zachary Lewis The Plain Dealer, Cleveland (10/7/14)

“McAllister was the tirelessly virtuosic soloist, playing with rhythmic drive and confident swagger…”

Hugo Shirley The Telegraph (UK) (9/5/14)

“…jaw-dropping technical display…a well-known master of his instrument.”

Daniel Coombs Audiophile Audition

“Connesson knows how to be lyrical and expressive beyond the sentimentalism of John Adams. The audience, left breathless by the astounding virtuosity of Timothy McAllister, cheered on the composer who will see his work recorded for Deutsche Grammophon with the same performers.”

Bertrand Hainut DIAPASON Magazine (France)

“Inspired by the work of jazz sax legend John Coltrane, for the American Premiere this weekend, Mr. McAllister played all three movements with superb virtuosity and artistic sensitivity…this is the music Philip Marlowe would hear as he sat in a late-night jazz club where the air was thick with smoke and regret. Mr. McAllister’s performance was moving and compelling.”

Chuck Lavazzi KDHK 88.1 Community Media - St. Louis (March 2020)

Guillaume Connesson

Saxophone Concerto ‘A Kind of Trane’ (2015)
I. “There is none other”
II. Ballade
III. Coltrane on the Dancefloor

Timothy McAllister gave the U.S. Premiere of Connesson’s ‘A Kind of Trane’ with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 2020, following the premiere recording for Deutsche Grammophon with the Brussels Philharmonic and conductor Stephane Deneve.

Connesson’s homage to the great John Coltrane is inspired from Coltrane’s own poetry and text tied to his iconic album “A Love Supreme.” The work features alto and soprano saxophones in three movements fusing elements of Coltrane’s music with French Impressionism, minimalism, funk, and disco. Duration: 21 minutes.

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Recordings

Brussels Philharmonic: Lost Horizon (featuring Connesson's 'A Kind of Trane')

International Classical Music Awards 2019 - Nominee - Contemporary Music
New double CD with music by Guillaume Connesson and with soloists Timothy McAllister and Renaud Capuçon released by Deutsche Grammophon!

Written during a brief period between 2015 (A Kind of Trane) and 2018 (Les Horizons Perdus), these four scores show the many facets of a composer who draws his inspiration from the sources of scholarly art as much as popular, without borders or taboos.

Release date April 7th, 2019
Producer Deutsche Grammophon
Catalog Number 4818045
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Interviews & Features

The Critics Speak

“Inspired by the work of jazz sax legend John Coltrane, for the American Premiere this weekend, Mr. McAllister played all three movements with superb virtuosity and artistic sensitivity…this is the music Philip Marlowe would hear as he sat in a late-night jazz club where the air was thick with smoke and regret. Mr. McAllister’s performance was moving and compelling.”

Chuck Lavazzi KDHK 88.1 Community Media - St. Louis (March 2020)

[“SLSO fires on all cylinders with creative concert featuring ‘Bolero’”]
On Connesson’s ‘A Kind of Trane’: “Much of it sounded like dazzling improvisation…complete mastery of every nuance of phrase and melody”

John Huxhold St. Louis Post-Dispatch (3/6/20)

“Connesson knows how to be lyrical and expressive beyond the sentimentalism of John Adams. The audience, left breathless by the astounding virtuosity of Timothy McAllister, cheered on the composer who will see his work recorded for Deutsche Grammophon with the same performers.”

Bertrand Hainut DIAPASON Magazine (France)