Femke en la gran Ciudad (Femke in the big City)

She also wanted me to depict her memories of the happy rural environment in the province of Friesland (in the north of the Netherlands) where she grew up as a kid. In these memories birds and bird sounds play a very important role. In addition to these elements Femke had another request which was to highlight the lyric qualities of the soprano saxophone, whereas in most of the solo pieces written for the instrument the focus is on virtuosity. All these elements are to be found back in this composition.

Femke recorded ‘en la Gran Ciudad’ on ‘Stofsugersjongers’