List of Recommended
Saxophone Repertoire



Repertoire for Unaccompanied saxophone

These pieces can be played on any saxophone unless specified.
I have indicated some of the most well known, frequently performed and recorded pieces of standard repertoire by typing the titles in green.

Composer

Title

Grade/comments

Publisher

J.S. Bach/ arr. Kaspryzyk

Suite No.s 1, 2, and 4 (orig. for ‘cello)

4-5-  Beautiful, esp. on baritone

Southern

J.S. Bach/ arr. Kynaston

Six Suites (orig. for ‘cello)

4-5-  all six, but transposed L

Advance

Eve Beglarian

Getting to Know the Weather

5- for bsx or bass sax

Dorn

Luciano Berio

Sequenza VIIb   

6- soprano)

Universal   

Luciano Berio

Sequenza Ixb

6- alto

Universal

Paul Bonneau

Caprice en Forme de Valse

6

Leduc

Eugene Bozza

Improvisation et Caprice

4 – 5

Leduc

Frank Brazinski

Gallery of Shadows and Specters

6- baritone

Brazinmusikanta

Ronald Caravan

Improvisation

4 – 5- tenor

Dorn

Ronald Caravan

Paradigms I

4 – 5

Dorn

Barney Childs

Sonatina

6

Tritone/Presser

Herbert Couf

Introduction, Dance and Furioso

3-4

Bourne

Claude Debussy

Syrinx (orig. for flute)

3-4- soprano

Jobert

Pierre-Max Dubois

Suite Française

4 – 5

Leduc

Marie-Hélène Fournier

Le Fusain fuit la Gomme

6-7- baritone

Lemoine

Jeffrey Friedman

Music for Solo Baritone

6- baritone

Dorn

Bruno Giner

Yod

6- baritone

Durand

Friedemann Graef

Facettes

6- baritone

Ries & Erler

Percy Grainger

Arrival Platform Humlet

5- tsx (or any)

MonteVerde

Walter S. Hartley

Petite Suite

4

Fema

Bernard Heiden   

Solo

5

Associated

Sylain Kassap

Balkanique

5

Misterioso

Theodor Köhler

Sarasax (5 mvt.s)

6- baritone

Chili Notes

John David Lamb

Three Antique Dances

5- altissimo!

Ethos

Christian Lauba

Hard

7- tenor

Leduc

Christian Lauba

Neuf Etudes

7- four books: asx, tsx, ssx duo, & baritone

Leduc

Christian Lauba

 Steady Study on the Boogie

7- alto

Leduc

Terje Lerstad

Improvisation and Tarantella

6- bass (or tsx, bsx, or cbs sax)

Norsk

Terje Lerstad

Fantasy, Op. 39

5- asx, mezzo, ssx, or sno sx

Divertimento M. Ed. Norway

Arr. Alexandr Manoukian

Traditional Armenian Folk Music

3-4

Phylloscopus

Gerard Massias

Suite Monodique

5-6

Billaudot

Paule Maurice

Volio

5

Billaudot

Costan Miereanu

Variants Invariants

6

Salabert

Costan Miereanu

Aksax

6- bass sax

Salabert

Marc Monnet

Le Cirque

5- for cbs sax or bass sax

Salabert

Ryo Noda

Fantasie et Dance

4- alto

Leduc

Ryo Noda

Improvisations I, II, and III

5- alto

Leduc

Ryo Noda

Mai

5- alto

Leduc

Ryo Noda

Phoenix

5- alto

Leduc

Vincent Persichetti

Parable XI

5- alto

Elkan-Vogel

Astor Piazzolla

Tango – Etudes

4 – 5

Lemoine

Giacinto Scelsi

Ixor

6- soprano

Salabert

Giacinto Scelsi

Maknongan

6- baritone

Salabert

Giacinto Scelsi

Tre Pezzi

6-7- soprano

Salabert

William Schmidt

Music for Unaccompanied Saxophone

3 – 5

WIM

Karlheinz Stockhausen

In Freundschaft

5

Stockhausen Verlag

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Plus Minus

6

Presser

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Spiral

6

Presser

Niccolo Paganini,
arr. Jamal Rossi

Caprice, op. 1, No. 24

6

Dorn

Georg Philipp Telemann

Fantasies I – XII
(orig. for flute)

3-4

Southern

Henri Tomasi

Evocations

4

Leduc

Joan Tower

Wings

5- alto

Hal Leonard

Fisher Tull

Threnody

4-5

B & H

Laurence Wyman

Djiwa

4

Wyman


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