Kaija Saariaho

The Full Score of Saariaho's Verblendungen for Orchestra and Tape. The piece is dedicated to Esa-Pekka Salonen, who conducted the premiere performance in Helsinki, Finland with the Finnish Radio Symph...

Du Cristal is a work for large Orchestra and live Electronics which was commissioned in 1989 by the Helsinki Festival and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

Commissioned by the French Government and Musica Strasbourg. As the title suggests, Trois rivières is divided into three separate sections. The first part introduces all the instrumental colours used...

Trois Rivieres by Kaija Saariaho was Commissioned by the French Government and Musica Strasbourg. As the title suggests, Trois rivières is divided into three separate sections. The first part introdu...

Kaija Saariaho's Leino Songs were premiered by Anu Komsi (soprano) and Pia Värri (piano) on 9 July 2007 in Kaarle's Church, Kokkola, Finland, as part of the Kokkola Opera Summer Festival. Leino Songs...

Saariaho's L'armour De Loin is an opera in five acts and was premiered in Salzburg in August 2000, with additional productions being staged at the theatre Bern in Switzerland. The story is based on th...

An opera written in 2006. Kaija Saariaho's La Passion de Simone was commissioned jointly by the Vienna Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Barbican London and Lincoln Center New York. It was first...

Kaija Saariaho's Emilie Suite was a joint commission by Carnegie Hall, New York City, Cité de la Musique, Paris, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. It was first per...

Luonnon Kasvot by Kaija Saariaho for high voice and piano.

A setting texts by Sylvia Plath, this 1988 work is for Soprano and Mezzo Soprano voices. Commissioned for the 1988 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. A cycle of five duets, the texts originate...

Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952) is a Finnish composer of chamber music, opera, orchestral works and electroacoustic music. Ballade was written for Emanuel Ax, who premiered the work at Wigmore Hall (London)...

Written for solo piano.

Arabesques Et Adages was commissioned by the Fourth International Maj Lind Piano Competition, 2017.

Composer's Note When I considered the ensemble of eight cellos, I first thought of matt and dark textures. I also wanted to go back to some ideas on symmetry. While I was pondering all that, I saw sno...

The composer has developed musical processes through the use of computer programming methods and this approach has allowed a broadening of vocabulary of the colour or tone of string instruments and th...

Kaija Saariaho is the most successful of contemporary Finnish composers, having won a number of international compositions, and has become best known for her works which exploit electronics. The inspi...

This 1992 work by the Finnish spectral composer Kaija Saariaho is an intense and complex piece for solo Cello and electronics. The music is derived from preliminary recordings made by the composer wit...

The set of parts for the original version of Miranda's Lament. Composed in 1997, the piece is part of 'The Tempest Songbook' and was dedicated as a birthday present for Paavo Heininen. The score for t...

Score and parts for Saariaho's Cendres, arranged for Alto Flute, Cello and Piano. Quoting Saariaho: While writing Cendres, I was mainly concentrating on the interpretation of particular musical ideas...

This score edition of Saariaho's , New Gates is arranged for flute, viola (cello), and harp. It was commissioned by the Sabbath Trio and composed in 1996. Duration: 12 minutes.

Six Japanese Gardens is another wonderful example of contemporary programmatic composition by Kaija Saariaho for percussion and electronics. It was composed in the summer of 1993, when Saariaho took i...

Saariaho 'Mirrors' arranged for flute and cello.