On May 17, Beethoven Orchester Bonn and Asya Fateyeva, conducted by Dirk Kaftan, will present the German premiere of Saivo, a concerto for soprano saxophone and orchestra by Outi Tarkiainen.
The title “Saivo” originates from ancient Sami beliefs and refers to a lake with two bottoms. Beneath the visible surface lies another hidden lake: an entrance to a parallel world that mirrors our own. Tarkiainen writes: “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.”
Saivo was commissioned by Tapiola Sinfonietta and is dedicated to saxophonist Jukka Perko, who gave the world premiere in 2017.
For more information, please see the website of Beethoven Orchester.
