Kaija Saariaho - recommendations please!
Euan Bayliss
First of all, sorry if I got the name wrong! I have heard that Kaija
Saariaho's work is very interesting, but would like to get suggestions
as to what to get hold of, since I suspect that the only way I'm going
to hear her work is to go out and buy some of it!
Suggestions welcome...
Euan
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Samuel Vriezen
>Hi there,
>
>First of all, sorry if I got the name wrong! I have heard that Kaija
>Saariaho's work is very interesting, but would like to get suggestions
>as to what to get hold of, since I suspect that the only way I'm going
>to hear her work is to go out and buy some of it!
>
>Suggestions welcome...
>
AFAIC you can hardly go wrong. Her later work is often thought of as
more 'accessible', but I don't hear things that way myself. I think I
like 'Verblendungen' best.
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Walter Ekelin
The name is correct!
Kalvos and Damian made an interview with her that were sent in 1996. It's
located in programs 65 & 67 at http://216.92.67.11/tapes2.html and also
includes some of her music.
Further info on her music is available at http://www.petals.org/
greetings
Walter Ekelin
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J.B.L.
>Saariaho's work is very interesting, but would like to get suggestions
>as to what to get hold of
Get the easily-obtainable set recently released on Sony, with Esa-Pekka Salonen
conducting. Some very fine music there!
"I trust my barber." - J.Jonah Jameson
Jethro
> Saariaho's work is very interesting, but would like to get suggestions
> as to what to get hold of, since I suspect that the only way I'm going
> to hear her work is to go out and buy some of it!
She is very good. I met her last year in San Diego, and she was very
nice, with a cool intellectualism without artifice. Her early work is
more "rigorous" or whatever, spectral with dissonant tension. I
recommend 'Lichtbogen' and 'Io' on Finlandia FACD 374. 'Nymphea' for
string quartet and electronics is one of my favorites - you can find
that with 'Du cristal' and '...a la fumee' on Ondine ODE 804-2. She
began to focus more on melody as she started to write her opera,
'L'Amour de Loin'. But it certainly isn't some about-face like
mid-70s Penderecki. For this I would recommend 'chateau de l'ame' on
Sony SK 60817.
Her opera is being staged in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA on July 27 and
31st.
Enjoy!
Jethro
Jeff Harrington
> > First of all, sorry if I got the name wrong! I have heard that Kaija
> > Saariaho's work is very interesting, but would like to get suggestions
> > as to what to get hold of, since I suspect that the only way I'm going
> > to hear her work is to go out and buy some of it!
>
I heard her piece for cello and computer (Max) last year at the
OughtOne Festival and it was amazing. Kind of like Lutoslawski meets
Holliger... I have a couple of her CD's though and have found her
output to be on the ordinary side of the 'pretty' neo-impressionism
that has been the norm in Europe now for what, 25 years?
Her web site is pretty interesting...
jeff harrington
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Steve Layton
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>
> I heard her piece for cello and computer (Max) last year at the
> OughtOne Festival and it was amazing. Kind of like Lutoslawski meets
> Holliger... I have a couple of her CD's though and have found her
> output to be on the ordinary side of the 'pretty' neo-impressionism
> that has been the norm in Europe now for what, 25 years?
The 'cello piece was "Prčs"; it's the best of the solo pieces I've heard,
and one of my favorites of her work. But like you, I haven't been as
impressed with her work as I was hoping to be; It can sound *great*, but
somehow still seems to just miss the mark.
>
> Her web site is pretty interesting...
>
> http://www.petals.org/
The CDs are good, cheap, and ship quickly even to Seattle; and they came
autographed, even! Not a bad deal at all.
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Steve Layton
The Immoral Mr Teas
previously available on record but hard to find. The "Meet The
Composer" series twin CD includes Io (my favourite of her works),
Verblendungen, Lichtbogen (two performances), Jardin Secret II and
Stilleben, her radiophonic composition and finally Petals. The number
is (Warner Music Finland / Finlandia ) 3984-23407-2.
Her earlyish electronic work Jardin Secret I can now be found once
again on the 1997 Bis release "A Portrait of Kaija Saariaho",
BIS-CD-307 Stereo.
Anthony Cornicello
a previously-released CD (Private Gardens) and a CD which is a good
intro to her work, and to spectral music as well. I just got it,
and from what I saw, it does focus mainly on her music, but there
are references to other composers works (in terms of how they
influenced her).
I agree about Près - it's a great work!
> From: "Steve Layton" <dal...@speakeasy.org>
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> Subject: Re: Kaija Saariaho - recommendations please!
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> "Jeff Harrington" <je...@parnasse.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> I heard her piece for cello and computer (Max) last year at the
>> OughtOne Festival and it was amazing. Kind of like Lutoslawski meets
>> Holliger... I have a couple of her CD's though and have found her
>> output to be on the ordinary side of the 'pretty' neo-impressionism
>> that has been the norm in Europe now for what, 25 years?
>
> The 'cello piece was "Près"; it's the best of the solo pieces I've heard,
Ertugrul iNANC
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> The name is correct!
Beautiful name! Sounds as if a birdsong.
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Simon Barrow
> Hi there,
>
> First of all, sorry if I got the name wrong! I have heard that Kaija
> Saariaho's work is very interesting, but would like to get suggestions
> as to what to get hold of, since I suspect that the only way I'm going
> to hear her work is to go out and buy some of it!
>
> Suggestions welcome...
>
>
> Euan
A good starting place:
'A Portrait of Kaija Saariaho', Esa-Pekka Salonen / Atso Almila and
the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. BISCD307. As well as
'Verblendungen' it also has four other varied pieces.
Inexpensive and easy to find. Came out in about '97 IIRC.
Simon Barrow