Solo mit Orchester/Chor • Christian Elin

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Soloist with Orchestra/Choir

There have been many wonderful solo compositions for the saxophone over the past 100 years Orchestra and choir written by Claude Debussy, Florent Schmitt, Alexander Glasunow, Heitor Villa-Lobos right up to Giya Kancheli and John Adams.

These are all very special occasions, being able to perform these works and I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to do so again and again in the past few years with fantastic orchestras and choirs. These included the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra / Vilnius, the Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt, the Orchester de Chambre Nouvelle Europe / Paris, the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse and the Sinfonia Concertante Bremen. In 2012 I performed my saxophone concerto „WAVES“ for the first time, and in 2015 it had its French premiere as part of the World Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg.

Repertoire lists

Classical saxophone concertos

Johann Sebastian Bach | 2. Brandenburgisches Konzert F-Dur BWV 1047 | 12’
transcription for soprano saxophone, oboe, violin, recorder, string orchestra and basso continuo

Johann Sebastian Bach | Double Concerto BWV 1060
transcription for soprano saxophone, violin and string orchestra

André Caplet (1878-1925) | Légende | 1903 | 13’
for alto saxophone and chamber ensemble
0.1.1.1/0.0.0.0/1.1.1.1.1

Paul Creston (1906-1985) | Concerto | 1941 | 19‘
for alto saxophone and orchestra

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) | Rapsodie | 1901-1908 | 10’
for alto saxophone and orchestra
3.2+ca.2.2./4.2.3.1/4perc/hrp/full strings

Vincent d’Indy (1851-1831) | Choral varié op. 55 | 1903 | 11’
for alto saxophone and orchestra 2.2.2.2/4.1.3.0/perc/strings

Alexander Glasunow (1865-1936) | Concerto E flat op.109 | 1933 | 15’
for alto saxophone and string orchestra

Yrjö Gunaropulos (1904-1968) | Concerto B flat major | 1942 | 21‘
for alto saxophone and orchestra

Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) | Concertino da Camera | 1935 | 12’
for alto saxophone and chamber ensemble 1.1.1.1/1.1.0.0/4.4.3.2.1

Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) | Sonatine op. 194 | 1942/43 | 11’
for soprano saxophone and chamber ensemble 1.0.1.0/0.0.0.0/harp(or cembalo)/2.0.2.2.0

Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973) | Serenissima | 1961 | 16’
for alto saxophone and orchestra 3.3.2.2/4.2.0.0/perc/pno/harp/strings

Paule Maurice (1910-1967) | Tableaux de Provence | 1950-1955 | 15’
for alto saxophone and orchestra

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) | Scaramouche op. 165c | 1937 | 10’
for alto saxophone and orchestra
2.2.2.2/2.2.2.0/perc./strings

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756-1791) | Andante KV 315 | 7‘
transcription for soprano saxophone and orchestra

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) | Tango-Suite | 15‘
for alto saxophone and orchestra

Sergej Rachmaninow (1873-1943) | Romanze | 1955 |
for alto saxophone and orchestra
arrangement by Bernd Alois Zimmermann

Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) | Légende op. 66 | 1918 | 11’30
for alto saxophone and orchestra
3.3.3.3/4.3.4.0/perc./harp/strings

Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) | Hot-Sonate |1930 | 20‘
for alto saxophone and orchestra
arrangement by Richard Rodney Bennett

Henri Tomasi (1901-1951) | Ballade | 1938 | 15’30
for alto saxophone and orchestra

Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) | Slawische Rhapsodie op. 23 | 1940 | 14‘
for alto saxophone and orchestra

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) | Fantasia op. 630 | 1948 | 11’
for soprano saxophone, string orchestra and 3 french horns

Contemporary saxophone concertos

Sally Beamish (*1956) | The imagined sound of sun on stone | 1999 | 19‘
for soprano saxophone and orchestra

Richard Rodney Bennett (*1936) | Concerto for Stan Getz | 1990 | 24’
for tenor saxophone and orchestra
timp.strings (min. 10.8.6.4.2)

Harrison Birtwistle (*1934) | Panic | 1995 | 18’
A Dithyramb for alto saxophone, drumkit and orchestra (only brass and winds)
3(II,III=picc).3(III=ca).2(II=Ebcl).bcl.3
(III=dbn)/4.4(I=picc.tpt).3.1/timp/perc(1):ped.BD;hi-hat; 4tom-t;4tpl.bl;4bongos;2congas

Gavin Bryars (*1943) | The green ray | 1991 | 20’
for soprano saxophone and orchestra 1(picc).1+ca.1(bcl).2(contra)/2.flugelhorn.1.0/pno/perc(1 player – bass drum, tam-tam, glockenspiel, bells, cymbal/6.6.4.3.2 n.b. 21 part divisi essential
bass drum, tam-tam, glockenspiel, bells, cymbal/6.6.4.3.2 n.b. 21 part divisi essential

Elliott Carter (*1908) | Pastoral | 1949 | 10’
for alto saxophone, string orchestra and marimba

Marius Constant (1925-2004) | Concertante | 1979 | 17’
for alto saxophone and orchestra
2.2.2.1/2.2.1.0/2perc/harp/strings

Edison Denisow (1929-1996) | Concerto | 1986 | 34’
for alto saxophone and orchestra
2.2.2(bcl).2/0.3.3.0/perc/hp.cel/str

Franco Donatoni (1927-2000) | HOT | 1989 | 14’
for sopranino-/tenor saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, double bass and percusssion

Philip Glass (*1937) | Facades | 1981 | 8’30
for 2 soprano saxophones and strings

Christian Elin (*1976) | WAVES | 2012 | 12‘30
for soprano saxophone and string orchestra

Graham Fitkin (*1963) | Game Show | 1997 | 15‘
for soprano saxophone and wind orchestra

Toshio Hosokawa (*1955) | Herbst Wanderer | 2005 | 20’
for soprano-/tenor saxophone, piano, percussion and string orchestra
24.10.8.6 – strings divided

Keith Jarrett (*1945) | Luminessence | 1973 | 15‘
for soprano saxophone and strings

Giya Kancheli (*1935) | Night Prayers | 1994/96 | 23’
for soprano saxophone, string orchestra and tape

James MacMillan (*1959) | Saxophone Concerto | 2017 | 15′
for soprano saxophone and string orchestra

Frank Martin (1890-1974) | Ballade | 1938 | 16’
for alto saxophone, string orchestra, piano and timpani /2perc/6.6.5.4.3(minimum)

Rolf Martinsson (*1956) | Golden Harmony | 2012 | 25’
for soprano saxophone and orchestra 2(pic).2(ca).2(bcl).2/2.2.0.0/timp.vib/4.4.3.3.2(minimum)

Michael Nyman (*1944) | Where the Bee dances | 1991 | 18’
for soprano saxophone and orchestra
1(pic).1+ca.1(bcl).2/2.1.0+btbn.0/pf/str(6.6.4.3.2)

Michael Nyman | Double Concerto | 1996/97 | 27’
for alto-/soprano saxophone, cello and orchestra 3(afl)+pic.4(ca).3+bcl.4/4.3(flg).2+btbn.1/perc/pf/str

Allan Pettersson (1911-1980) | Symfoni n° 16 | 1979 | 26’
for alto saxophone and orchestra
2+pic.2.2.2+cbsn/4.3.3.0/4perc+full strings

Esa-Pekka Salonen (*1958) | Concerto | 1981 | 16’30
for alto saxophone and orchestra 2(picc).2(ca).2(bcl).2/4.3.3.1/harp/pno(celesta)/4perc/strings

Lepo Sumera (1950-2000) | Concerto grosso | 2000 |
for soprano saxophone, piano, percussion and orchestra
0.0.0.0/2.2.0.0/perc/pno/strings

Michael Torke (*1961) | Concerto | 1993 | 18’
for soprano saxophone and orchestra 1.1.ca.2.0/4.0.0.btrbn.0/perc(4):2vib/2marimba/harp/strings