Kaija Saariaho

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...

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...

Tag des Jahrs for mixed choir and electronics was commissioned by the Tapiola Chamber Choir and the Helsinki Chamber Choir Week, with support from the Madetoja Foundation and the National Council for...

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.

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...

A splendid 1991 compostion by Saariaho for Four singers and live electronics. This version of the setting of text by Jacques Roubaud and Honore de Balzac, is for Solo voices (SATB) and electronics, wi...

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 score 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 set of parts for t...

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.

Score edition of Die Aussicht. Arranged for Soprano, Flute, Cello and Piano.

Caliban's Dream was written as a 50th birthday tribute to Brian Ferneyhough in 1993. Arranged for baritone voice, clarinet, mandolin, guitar, harp and double bass. This edition includes the parts only...

Caliban's Dream was written as a 50th birthday tribute to Brian Ferneyhough in 1993. Arranged for baritone voice, clarinet, mandolin, guitar, harp and double bass. Score edition only. Separate parts a...