Kaija Saariaho's Mirage was commissioned by the Orchestre de Paris, BBC and nbsp - Symphony Orchestra and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The world premiere took place on 13 March 2008 in Salle Pleyel, Paris, given by Karita Mattila (Soprano), Anssi Karttunen (Cello), with the Orchestre de Paris, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. This arrangement of Mirage for soprano, cello and piano was p…

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Aure is a work by Kaija Saariaho for Violin and Viola, originally composed as an homage to Henri Dutilleux's 95th birthday. Aure was first performed on 19th August 2011, as part of the festival 'Les Inou and iuml - es' in Arras, France. Lasting around 4 minutes, these are the Parts. / Violon Et Alto

Kaija Saariaho's Emilie was commissioned by Opéra de Lyon, Barbican Centre, London and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. It was first performed on 1st March 2010 at Opéra de Lyon with Karita Mattila, soprano, conducted by Kazushi Ono. The stage director was François Girard. / Soprano Et Piano

Cette pièce à couper le souffle a été écrit par compositrice finlandaise Kaija Saariaho pour Sibelius Academy diplômés, le pianiste et son compatriote Finn Tuija Hakkila. Elle a été réalisée avec succès par lui à de nombreuses manifestations et concerts, dont le Festival Mostly Mozart à New York. / Piano

A setting by Kaija Saariaho of texts by Amin Maalouf for solo Soprano with Piano. A joint commission between the Théâtre De Châtelet Paris and the Barbican Centre London, the piece was first performed in Paris, April 2003. The text features four short writings Attente, Douleur, Parfum De L'Instant and Résonances , with a complex Piano part that bubbles with effervescent textures and glissandi. / S…

Terrestre was commissioned to celebrate the composer's fiftieth birthday and while the name Terrestre calls to mind earthbound things, the score suggests the physical sensation of taking wing. The first of the two movements, l'Oiseau dansant, describes an aboriginal tale of a bird that teaches a village to dance, while the second movement, l'Oiseau, un satellite infime (infinitesimal) takes flight…

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 inspiration for writing NoaNoa came at the time of writing the music for the ballet Maa. and quot - I wanted to write down, exaggerate, even abuse certain flute mannerisms that had been haunting me for som…

Par SAARIAHO KAIJA. Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, was premiered at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2021 in a production directed by Simon Stone. Set at a wedding, the drama centres around the repercussions of a school shooting that took place ten years earlier. The Original Finnish Libretto was written by Sofi Oksanan, from which the opera’s Multilingual Libretto was created by Aleksi…