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Commissioned by Kronos Quartet for the Celebrate Brooklyn Festival. Premiere 12th March 2009 at the MusicNOW Festival and 18th July 2009 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Bryce Dessner is a composer/guitar...

import/export is a percussion suite that makes use of four everyday junk objects that can be seen as truly global, and with no associated nationality or culture: an Oil-drum, a Wooden Pallet, a Plasti...

Vocal score for Adriana Mater - the second opera by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and librettist Amin Maalouf. Written in 2005, the work is Saariaho’s largest in size and duration, and explores them...

Commissioned for Malcom Munro and the Choir of St. Mary the Virign, Dover, in loving memory of John Yarrow.

Vocal score for Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, which was premiered at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2021 in a production directed by Simon Stone. Set at a wedding, the drama centres arou...

The original version of Kaija Saariaho’s Saarikoski-laulut for voice and piano (CH88086) was written for the soprano Anu Komsi, to whom the songs are dedicated. The song cycle is based on a collection...

Quatre Instants (chamber version)

Kaija Saariaho’s Song for Betty is an arrangement of the last movement from her opera L’amour de loin and was an 80th birthday gift for Betty Freeman, who very generously supported the commission of t...

Little Blue Something was written for and dedicated to Kronos Quartet. The premiere was given by them on 31st May 2012 at the Ensems Festival in Valencia, Spain.

This suite for chorus and string orchestra was commissioned by the Addison Singers, London, and dedicated to their conductor David Wordsworth. It is a setting of texts by three American poets - E E Cu...

Lunas Zauberschein was first performed by Margaret McDonald (Mezzo-Soprano) and Julie Rees (Bass Flute) at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, on 20th March 1979.

Dessner’s Circles is a 5 minute work for bandoneon and string quartet. Commissioned for Julien Labro and Takacs String Quartet by Music Accord, Inc., the track opens the quartet’s 2024 album and utili...

Kaija Saariahos 2015 entstandene Oper Only The Sound Remains wurde von der Niederländischen Nationaloper, der Finnischen Nationaloper, der Opera de Paris, dem Teatro Real Madrid und der Canadian Opera...

Full Moon (Day 3) von Seven Days Walking ist ein kurzes, vierminütiges Stück für Klaviertrio von Einaudi. Inspiriert von Winterspaziergängen in den Bergen und den subtilen Details und Variationen, die...

Einaudis Gravity (Day 6) ist ein sechsminütiges Stück für Klaviertrio aus "Day 6" von Seven Days Walking. Inspiriert von Winterspaziergängen in den Bergen und den subtilen Details und Variationen, die...

From 'Day 3' of Seven Days Walking, Einaudi's The Path of the Fossils (Day 3) is a nine minute piece for Piano trio. Inspired by winter walks through the mountains and the subtle details and variation...

Dieses kurze Lied für Mezzosopran, Cello und Klavier ist von mittelalterlichen medizinischen Praktiken inspiriert. Es vertont einen Text aus der Lacnunga, einer Sammlung angelsächsischer medizinischer...

Pendulum ist ein 7-minütiges Werk für Violine, Cello und Klavier.

Low Mist (Day 6) von Seven Days Walking ist ein kurzes Stück für Klaviertrio und stammt aus "Day 6" von Seven Days Walking. Inspiriert von Winterspaziergängen in den Bergen und den subtilen Details un...

This version of Kaija Saariaho’s Tocar for violin and harp is dedicated to Renee and Susan Jolle. The original version of Tocar for violin and piano (CH76703) was commissioned by the International Jea...

The English Language version of The Black Spider (also known as The Mystery of The Black Spider) commissioned by Opera North. Originally written in 1984, this is a very popular opera by Judith Weir. T...

A three-minute choral work for SATTB choir unaccompanied, commissioned by the New Generation Foundation (f.k.a. Fondazione Mascarade Opera) with special thanks to Charles Klein. First performed on 29...