Saariaho BOTANIQUE

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Kaija Saariaho

Botanique for two violins (2008–2021)

Chester Music

Notation

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Accidentals apply throughout the bar to notes in the same octave and the same stave.

Trills should always be played up a semitone, unless otherwise specified. change very gradually from one sound or one way of playing (etc.) to another. slow vibrato: very slow and wide oscillation When vibrato markings are not specified, players can use their usual vibrato.

All glissandi should start immediately at the beginning of the note value.

S.P.

always estremamente sul ponticello

S.T.

sul tasto

N.

normal (used with S.P. and S.T., otherwise ord.)

hμμ |l

vertical trill: produced by alternating the finger pressure between normal ( w ) and light (harmonic, ); the result should be alternating normal and harmonic sounds. This trill can be played slightly slower than normal trills, so that both pitches can be heard.

hμμ | (|)

O

a trill between two harmonics: alternate between the two harmonics by lifting the fingers in turn to allow the individual harmonics to be heard; this trill can be played slightly slower than normal trills.

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I. Fleurs irrégulières II. Pétales chiffonnés dans le bouton de la fleur III. Fleurs à 3 ou 6 pétales IV. [Fleurs non composées]

Each movement was written for Aliisa Neige Barrière as a separate piece, and performed by her over the years in various combinations. The premiere of the three completed pieces as a cycle took place at the I Djurs og Mols Festival in Ebeltoft, Denmark, on 30 July 2021, performed by Aliisa Neige Barrière and Alexander Øllgaard.

About the work Some years after the composition in 2002 of Danse des flocons I & II for two violins, a pedagogical piece intended for her then seven-year-old daughter Aliisa, Kaija Saariaho decided to revisit the format at a more advanced level, as Aliisa was growing into a professional violinist. Botanique was meant to be a longer cycle, in the spirit of Bartók’s violin duet collection, but only three movements were completed before Kaija’s passing.

The inspiration for the piece’s structure and title comes from Gaston Bonnier’s classic field guide from 1920, Les Noms des fleurs, trouvés par la méthode simple sans aucune notion de botanique (The Names of Flowers, Found Through the Simple Method Without Any Knowledge of Botany).

Bonnier’s titular ‘simple method’ allows to identify any plant by answering a series of questions: does it have flowers or not, is it herbaceous or a tree, is it ‘composed’ of multiple flowers organized into a structure or not, what is its colour, how many petals does it have…? Each movement of Botanique is named after one of the categories in Bonnier’s guide.

We are also including here two possible beginnings marked for an unwritten fourth movement – fittingly, in Bonnier’s classification they were to be devoted to ‘non-composed flowers.’

Aleksi Barrière, August 2023

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Kaija Saariaho

I. Fleurs irrégulières

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