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Contents Högberg: Orphan Elephant Dobrogosz: The Gracenotes Borisova-Ollas: Daybreak on Skeppsholmen Tarrodi: Of Days Gone By Hammerth: Lontano Hillborg: Shared Solitude 1 Simaku: Soliloquy VI Hillborg: Shared Solitude 2 Anna-Lena Laurin: Dawn Malmborg Ward: Growing, Coming, Filling Up Hansson, B: Memories Corigliano, J: And the People Stayed Home – Version for Soprano Saxophone Sung: Soliloquy Wammes: Inspired by Nile Rodgers Söderqvist, A S: Solitude Bjørn Kruse: Amber Soliloquy Henryson: Crux Nilsson, A: Splendid Isolation Thomas Lindahl: Nattuggla Samuelsson, M: Piece to Anders from Marie Dafgård: Iridescence Perder: How Dare You? Byström, B: Later the Same Day The project ‘Solitary Poems for Soprano Saxophone’ is a creative response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequent obliteration of livelihoods for freelance musicians. The 23 world premières presented on this album were all composed specifically for Anders Paulsson so that he and they could keep growing artistically during the pandemic when all concerts and touring came to a standstill, and simultaneously to support the creation of new music for soprano saxophone. Some pieces turned out to be extremely virtuosic while others were more contemplative and lyrical. While the vast majority of the pieces are for solo soprano saxophone, some feature a second instrument, including one that is a dialogue between Paulsson and himself. Composers from across the world have been given free rein to express musically what the pandemic has meant to them, whether it’s a reflection on solitude or on the imposed standstill, a hope for a better tomorrow, a concern for crucial environmental issues or a sense of wonder at nature. All the pieces also reveal the extraordinary potential of the soprano saxophone as a classical soloist instrument. |
