Kaija Saariaho : Partitions difficile

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...

Tocar was commissioned by the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition of the Sibelius Society and Sibelius Academy as a test piece for the 2010 competition.

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...

Kaija Saariaho's Maan Varjot was jointly commissioned by Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Orchestre National de Lyon, Southbank Centre and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Oi Kuu (For The Moon) arranged for Bass Flute And Cello. Originally composed in 1990 for Bass clarinet and Cello at the request the clarinet player Kari Kriikku and the cellist Anssi Karttunen, who ha...

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...

Concerto For Flute And Orchestra. Study Score edition. First performed at the Flanders Festival in Brussels 12th October 2001. Composer's Notes: I have been very familiar with the flute since my earli...

Commissioned by the Finnish National Opera. Part 6 of the work 'Maa', for Harp with optional Electronics.

Calices was commissioned by Fundacion Albeniz for the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia, Madrid.

Full Score of Saariaho L'amour De Loin. Opera In Five Parts. L, armour De Loin was premiered in Salzburg in August 2000 with additional productions being staged at the theatreBern in Switzerland. The...

The full score for...A La Fumee for Solo Alto Flute, Cello and Orchestra, which was commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company in 1990. This edition contains a section on performance notes.

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.

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...

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...

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...

This is the first section of the five-part Tempest Songbook. Ariel's Lament is a luminous and beguiling rendering of the air sprite Ariel's greeting to his master Prospero, with deft instrumentation i...

Terrestre' was commissioned by Eleanor Eisenmenger in honour of Kaija Saariaho's 50th birthday. It is based on the second movement of the composer's Flute concert 'Aile du Songe', of which the she say...

Terrestre' was commissioned by Eleanor Eisenmenger in honour of Kaija Saariaho's 50th birthday. It is based on the second movement of the composer's Flute concert 'Aile du Songe', of which the she say...

The harmonic basis for this composition is found from analysing sounds of individual instruments, with the non-harmonic sounds produced on double bass and bass flute, these provide a model for the cho...

Kaija Saariaho's True Fire for Baritone Solo and Orchestra was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre national de France....

Separate parts for Saariaho 'New Gates' arranged for flute, viola or cello and harp. A score is also available on sale.

Work for Violin and Orchestra commissioned by the BBC and VARA Radio 4 (Netherlands).

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