related works
Destino: ¡Tango! (Hommage to Astor Piazzolla) : for large wind orchestra / Willem van Merwijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
picc 2fl/fl-a 2ob 5cl cl-b 2fg sax-s sax-a sax-ten sax-bar 4h 7tpt etrb-ten trb-b 3euph 3tb mar/vibr drums 2per g-bass pf/bandoneon
Prélude : pour saxophone et orchestre, 1959 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and orchestra
Scoring:
1020 1000 hp str sax-a-solo
Quadrupelconcert : versie voor 4 saxofoons en symfonieorkest, 1984 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and orchestra
Scoring:
3232 4331 timp 4perc str 4sax-solo
Medusa : for alto saxophone and orchestra, 1992, revision 1996 / Otto Ketting
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and orchestra
Scoring:
2000 4sax 1440 drums hp pf str (vl vla vc) sax-a-solo
composition
Leyendas : Concerto for alto saxophone and symphony orchestra / Guillermo Lago
Other authors:
Merwijk, Willem van (Guillermo Lago)
(Composer)
Description:
To write a concerto for his friend Arno Bornkamp was one of Guillermo Lago’s great wishes. ‘Leyendas’ (Legends) is his gift to his lifelong friend. In 2015 he wrote a smaller piece for alto saxophone and string quartet (or string orchestra) ‘Consecuencias’, also (co-)dedicated to Bornkamp, but ‘Leyendas’ is very obiously a solo concerto where Consecuencias is rather a chamber music work.
The title ‘Leyendas’ refers to the famous ‘Rimas y Leyendas’ by Gustavo Adolfo Becquér (1836 - 1870). In 2016 Lago wrote 5 Rimas for soprano saxophone and choir (a series to be expanded soon) and ‘Leyendas’ is inspired on the atmosphere and mood of these legends narrated by Becquér, although not connected to a specific ‘Leyenda’.