Posadas - Poética del Laberinto

The Guardian 80

Sigma Project
(Wergo)
The Labyrinth, Escher’s unending stairs and a Borges story inform Posada’s three works for saxophone quartet, and Sigma Project find a huge range of effects with subtlety and detail

A 55-minute cycle of pieces for saxophone quartet might not seem a particularly enticing prospect. But in a succession of works over the last 20 years, including the remarkable Liturgia Fractal for string quartet, Sombras, for soprano, clarinet and string quartet, and Erinnerungsspuren for piano, the Spanish composer Alberto Posadas has shown that his fondness for composing pieces in linked groups, which may be performed individually or as continuous sequence, has resulted in some of the most striking music written in Europe in recent times.