This release was nominated for the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Compendium. It's not exactly a survey of the work of Saariaho, whose mature production extends back to the early 1980s, but it might easily serve listeners new to her work as an introduction. The orchestral pieces here display the main features of her rigorous yet accessible style, with its emphasis on orchestral color in frameworks of slowly evolving sound. Additionally, her characteristic use of electronic instruments to accent traditional orchestral writing is ...
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This release was nominated for the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Compendium. It's not exactly a survey of the work of Saariaho, whose mature production extends back to the early 1980s, but it might easily serve listeners new to her work as an introduction. The orchestral pieces here display the main features of her rigorous yet accessible style, with its emphasis on orchestral color in frameworks of slowly evolving sound. Additionally, her characteristic use of electronic instruments to accent traditional orchestral writing is on wonderful display in the six-movement Circle Map, where the electronics present distorted versions of the Persian texts of the poet Rumi that give each movement its title. For an ideal place to start with Saariaho, consider Neiges ("Snows," bringing to mind the old and slightly inaccurate idea of the many words for kinds of snow among the Inuit), offered here in a version for 12 cellos that receives its world premiere. The work is challenging for the players and conductor, rising...
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Add this copy of Circle Map / Graal Theatre to cart. $21.80, new condition, Sold by Importcds rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sunrise, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by BIS.
Add this copy of Kaija Saariaho: Graal Théâtre; Circle Map; Neiges; Vers to cart. $55.26, new condition, Sold by Entertainment by Post - UK rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BRISTOL, SOUTH GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2019 by BIS.
