Kaija Saariaho
Ariel's Hail
for Soprano, Flute and Harp
Kaija Saariaho
Ariel's Hail
for Soprano, Flute and Harp
- Instrumentation Voice, Flute and Harp
- Composer Kaija Saariaho
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- Edition Score
- Publisher Chester Music
- Order no. CH63734
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Description:
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 in the Flute part andvirtuosicrequirements of the Soprano all suffusing the space with the magical use of Harp. As Ariel sings, 'I charmed their ears. ' Kaija Saariaho is a contemporary Finnish composer living and working in Paris and muchinfluenced bythe electronic experimentation of IRCAM, although Ariel's Lament is entirely acoustic in its instrumentation. She gained international renown for her first opera l'Amour du Loin and continues a prolific compositionallife with awide range of international performances.