Latest News: Classical, Saariaho (composer)
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Recording of the Week,
Choral works by the late Kaija Saariaho 7th July 2023
The Helsinki Chamber Choir under Nils Schweckendiek perform choral music by Saariaho that explores a wide range of subjects – from atmospheric invocations of night and Roman mythology to the seasons of the year and spacefaring science fiction.
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Obituary,
Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) 5th June 2023
The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho has died at the age of 70 in her adoptive home of Paris.
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Interview,
Gerald Finley on Kaija Saariaho's True Fire 29th May 2019
The bass-baritone talks to Katherine about recording the Finnish composer's song-cycle on texts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Seamus Heaney and Mahmoud Darwish, written for him in 2014 and released on Ondine earlier this month.
