Beneath (2022)
(for solo violin and string orchestra)

Beneath for string orchestra is an atmospheric work with a relatively slow tempo.

At the beginning of the work, a solo violin appears and gradually attracts the orchestra with its musical gestures. The first phrase of the solo violin basically contains a kind of musical DNA around which the piece is built.

The name of the piece refers to a slow, recurring chord sequence rising from the depths that serves as the structural backbone of the work. During the course of the piece other, more active musical materials emerge which try to take over without completely succeeding and at the end of the piece the tranquility returns and the chord sequence fades out to silence.

Sebastian Fagerlund