(I never posted to this newsgroup, so if my question isn't appropriate here, could you please
indicate a better place for me to ask?)
A long time ago (25 or so) I witnessed a performance of "Façades" by the Philip Glass Ensemble.
I was blown away by that performance. The melody was played at that time by two wind instruments. If
my memory serves me well it was a B9-clarinet and an oboe in duet (accompanied by other
instruments). Now that 25 years have passed by, I'm looking up information about that piece on
internet, and I get confused about two different performances:
A. In this one, the melody seems to me to be played by either two soprano-saxophones, or one
clarinet + one soprano-sax. (The instruments sound very different, I'm unsure altogether.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Tum513GLA
B. In this recording there do not seem to be any saxophones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl96P5D1eNg
Could someone knowledgeable w.r.t. wind instruments[*] clear up my confusion and tell which
instruments are being used in the performances A and B?
[*] I'm an amateur, very much interested in orchestration/instrumentation,
but still: amateur.
Note aside: regardless all kinds of possible arrangements, the score here:
https://issuu.com/scoresondemand/docs/facades_35060
lets the melody be played by Oboe, B9-Clarinet (and Flute?)
Thanks a lot in advance,
Erik Leunissen
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