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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...

Wish You Were Here, written for the Boston Pops, pays homage to Colin McPhee, one of the first western musicologists to study Balinese gamelan, as well as to the great illustrators Carl Barks and Herg...

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...

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...

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...

Study 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...

Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, 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 around the repercussions o...