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- Outi Tarkiainen
Saivo (2016)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
- 2(pic).2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn)/2200/perc/cel(pf)/str (8.7.5.4.3)
- Ssx
- 27 min
- 17th May 2025, BaseCamp Hostel , Bonn, Germany
Programme Note
The saxophone concerto Saivo paints a musical portrait of a saxophonist of a new kind. The word ”saivo” originates from the ancient Sami beliefs meaning a two-bottomed lake, where under a lake dwells another lake and another world which is inhabited by otherworldly creatures – a world that is the exact mirror image of our world. The saxophone concerto builds sonorous timbral bridges between the effected soprano saxophone and the orchestra, and grows eventually into an illusion of another reality which is similar, yet in a peculiar way different than the world we know. The work was commissioned by Tapiola Sinfonietta and it is dedicated to the saxophonist Jukka Perko
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Reviews
Outi Tarkiainen’s saxophone concerto is a mature and inspiring work. [...] Tarkiainen’s feel for colour is refined, and her handling of the orchestra is enchanting. [...] The concerto is a coherent and economical, mature and successful work that will, one suspects and hopes, get numerous further performances.
19th November 2017
The saxophone concerto was marked by potent handling of the orchestra. […] The orchestra is clearly Tarkiainen’s most personal means of expression.
18th November 2017
Discography
The Earth, Spring's Daughter / Saivo
- LabelOndine
- Catalogue NumberODE 1353-2
- ConductorJohn Storgårds
- EnsembleLapland Chamber Orchestra
- SoloistVirpi Räisänen, mezzo soprano & Jukka Pekko, soprano saxophone
- Released7th August 2020