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Thanks you Mike, I'm glad you liked it, I do appreciate it. PaperComposer, Thanks a lot for you comments, I appreciate it. I do feel there is some variety lacking in the piano developments and the cadenza could be longer as you say, take in more of the developments. Also I want to change the recapitulation a little, but I got it to a stage where I think the bones are good, and I never stop tinkering with these things, so by the time the 1st and 2nd movements are ready, it may well have changed a bit. The opening (theme) does make a return in the cadenza, but not anywhere else, I did try to find a place to shoe horn it in, but that´s exactly what it sounded like, so I took it out. It's hard for me to be objective I think, I've heard it thousands of times and I know all of the melodies and I have them running round in my head so to me, I do hum the tunes and see how it hangs together, but perhaps a first time listener would be hard pressed to pick out a good tune. My main reason for posting a piece at this stage is to get comments like your, that let me see it from a different perspective, and to adapt what I have if I think those comments are valid. Rest assured that I do value you response and I will keep it in mind as I'm tinkering LOL. Thanks again Kind regards Mark

As an experiment, I wanted to compose a piece for soprano saxophone, as my friend plays the instrument. It begins in a drifting, dream-like state with the strings providing a variety of colors. From the conclusion of the dream-state, an idea in the saxophone is presented. In a story type manner, this faster theme is progressed until it devolves back into the dense strings again with the initial iota being reiterated. This becomes an intense outburst at full volume until it ends quietly. The music begins again, replicating the three-movements of a concerto on a miniature scale, reintroducing previous themes. The music ends with a repetition of the intense contrary theme, re-notated from before. Let me know what you think! Also, I finally re-organized all my music, so I have proper opus numbers now.