Brian Horner, Elizabeth Avery, M. Zachary Johnson
Serenade: Music for Saxophone & Piano 
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Photo of Horner, Avery and Johnson at Steinway Hall (2006)
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Release Date: October 14, 2008
The product of a nearly ten-year collaboration between composer M. Zachary Johnson and saxophonist Brian Horner, Serenade: Music for Saxophone & Piano presents an important body of new repertoire for the youngest of classical instruments. The compositions—sometimes flowing, sometimes agitated, lushly romantic, fiery, with long, sensual melodic lines—are unique in style and feeling, and have a special audience appeal. Their musical category is neither traditional, nor jazz, nor contemporary avante garde, but something entirely fresh which has been described as "Twenty-first Century Romanticism." Pianist Elizabeth Avery, who joined the collaboration several years ago, brings an artistic sensitivity and masterful virtuosity to the formidable demands of the music. Horner's smoothly elegant, expressive and energetic saxophone playing dovetails with the magic of her performance—a combination that suits the music exquisitely.
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