Name: Sealed Vessel by DCIMittons
Duration: 5 min 45 s
Description: Hollow Knight Original Soundtrack + Gods & Nightmares OST

christopher larkin you are an absolutely amazing and genius composer this song is so filled with emotion and tells the whole story better than i could tell it with words

I'M ASCENDED TO END THE RADIANT LIGHT THAT PLAGUE THEIR DREAM SO BAD

Otis Murphy, alto saxophone
Walla Walla Symphony Orchestra
Julien Benichou, conductor
(Recording taken from the premiere performance, 4 Feburary 2025, Cordiner Hall, Walla Walla, WA.)

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra
2022
I. Deliberate.
II. Pensive, but not too slow.
III. Very lively, but not too fast.

Program Note:

Commissioned by the Walla Walla Symphony Orchestra, with funding generously provided by Richard D. Simon, M.D., this Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra was completed on March 23, 2022, with the bulk of sketching and composing of the first movement done in 2021. The Concerto is dedicated to the WWSO and also to one of my favorite places, the beautiful city of Walla Walla, WA. Additional small revisions to the score were made in 2023 and 2024.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, when concerts were canceled worldwide and all of my musician friends and I were abruptly out of work, I composed a series of short, unaccompanied pieces, entitled “Lyric Études,” for any musician who requested one. The idea was to nurture the musical relationships that we were all missing while live musical performances were impossible. The fifth of these, composed in 2020, is for saxophone. In many of these pieces, I already heard a latent potential in them to be expanded somehow into larger-scale compositions. Dr. Simon was so taken with Lyric Étude No. 5, that he decided to find a way for this idea to be realized, for me to compose a concerto for the WWSO making use of the themes and motifs from the fifth étude. I am extraordinarily grateful to him for his enthusiasm for my music, and for making this project happen!

In most concertos, the soloist is treated more or less as the protagonist of an imaginary narrative or conflict, and this concerto is no exception. While I often encourage the listener to imagine for themselves, if they wish, their own images or stories to accompany my music while they listen, it does seem worth sharing the dramatic concept I had in mind for this concerto from the earliest sketches. The first movement represents the soloist/protagonist in peril: a risky situation, freely accepted and undertaken. The soloist reveals great confidence and ability, but as the course of the movement proceeds the risk only increases, and the movement ends with a feeling of unresolved anxiety. The second movement represents the turning point of action; the soloist must look inward to find resolution. There is an epiphany, and the movement ends in an atmosphere of richly-earned calm. The third movement, then, might be described as none other than “time to party!” The difficulties overcome are not forgotten, but the music I hope conveys a sense of fun and ultimate acceptance.

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra - I. Deliberate.

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This is not mine. All rights belong to the owners, Team Cherry and Christopher Larkin. I just uploaded them so more people can listen to this amazing soundtrack.

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