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Musical Category Soloist(s) and Orch./Ens. and/or Choir

Instrumentation (general) alto saxophone and orchestra

Instrumentation (detailed)

Soloists	Alto Saxophone
Winds and Brass	2 Flute (Piccolo), 2 Oboe (French Horn), Clarinet in Bb, Bass Clarinet, 2 Bassoon (Contrabassoon), 2 Horn, 2 Trumpet in C, Trombone
Percussion	Timpani, Percussion (Vibraphone, Suspended Cymbals , Crotales, Bass Drum)
Strings (plucked / bowed)	12 First Violins, 10 Second Violins, 8 Viola, 6 Cello, 4 Double Bass

Date 2020/Dec/13

Performer(s)

Venue Belém Arts Centre

Town Lisbon

Country Portugal

This is a piece about breathing, about the air we breathe, written in the roaring year of 2020 and premiered at a time when the musicians take the stage with masks on their faces. In this work, being scored for a wind instrument in the foreground, the soloist assumes himself as a metaphor for this condition, looking for points of balance and harmony with the orchestra, that can salso be heard as a kind of amplified "lung".

Luís Tinoco, 2023

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KOKYUU – concerto para saxofone alto e orquestra

Premiere

2020/Dec/13

Belém Arts Centre

Lisbon

Portugal

João Pedro Silva (alto saxophone); Metropolitan Orchestra of Lisbon; Sylvain Gasançon (musical direction)

Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	João Pedro Silva Música Portuguesa para saxofone e orquestra Luís Tinoco · KOKYUU – concerto para saxofone alto e orquestra		kokyuu - concerto para saxofone alto e orquestra Luís Tinoco Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa	MPMP Património Musical Vivo	2023 2023

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