Kaija Saariaho: Maan Varjot, Chateau de l'Ame, True Fire, Offrande (collection Presences)

If I appear to be in the minority in continuing to view the late Saariaho’s output as a very mixed bag, there’s music on this valuable disc that I’ll return to while it reminds me, again, how... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2024 More…

Release Date: 9th Feb 2024
Catalogue No: FRF072
Label: radio france

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Saariaho: Maan varjot for organ and orchestra

Olivier Latry (organ)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Ernest Martinez-Izquierdo

Saariaho: Chateau de l'Ame

Faustine de Mones (soprano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Hannu Lintu

Saariaho: True Fire

Davone Tines (baritone)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Olari Elts

Saariaho: Offrande

Olivier Latry (organ)

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Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023), featured in 2017 at Radio France's Festival Presences of contemporary music, was a central figure in a generation of internationally renowned Finnish composers and performers.

Kaija Saariaho developed computer-assisted composition techniques and mastered working with tape and live electronics, but she also encountered French composers of so-called spectral music, whose techniques are based on computer analysis of the sound spectrum of individual notes on different instruments.

In the profusion of works that Saariaho has produced in recent years, two features have marked her entire career. One is the close collaboration with other artists -writers, directors, musicians, etc.- in the creation of new works. The other is the concern to make her music, not the treatment of an abstract process, but an urgent sharing of ideas, images and emotions from the composer to the listener.

This collection is the recording echo of the Festival Presences (created in 1991) and its commissioning and creation activities, supported by Radio France's musical ensembles.

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March 2024

If I appear to be in the minority in continuing to view the late Saariaho’s output as a very mixed bag, there’s music on this valuable disc that I’ll return to while it reminds me, again, how the organ, her own instrument, could unlock such remarkable thoughts in her.

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