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Kaija Saariaho’s 2015 opera Only The Sound Remains was commissioned by Dutch National Opera, Finnish National Opera, Opera de Paris, Teatro Real Madrid and Canadian Opera Company. The work combines tw...

Salonen's Fog, written for friend and architect Frank Gehry, is a fantasy around the Bach E major Prelude from Partita in E (BWV 1006), whose harmonic and melodic structure is almost omnipresent, some...

Asteroid 4179: Toutatis is a small work written for the project that Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra created around The Planets of Holst. It is based on Toutatis, the asteroid whose...

Study Score. Based on the famous medieval tapestries called La Dame à la Licorne, D'OM LE VRAI SENSE is a Clarinet Concerto commissioned by The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and dedicated to clarin...

Trans, for harp and orchestra, premiered in Japan in 2016 with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and harpist Xavier de Maistre. It was a co-commission between the Suntory Foundation for Arts, the Finnish R...

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...

Study score. Commissioned by the New Edinburgh Orchestra in celebration of Buzzy Murray. First performed on 19 March 2022 by the New Edinburgh Orchestra, conducted by Tim Paxton. Duration: c. 16 minut...

Study score for the orchestral work from 1998, composed by Saariaho for Esa-Pekka Salonen and Magnus Lindberg's 40th birthdays.

Kaija Saariaho’s Vista for orchestra was commissioned by Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. It was partially inspired...

Commissioned by the European Broadcasting Union, the one-minute orchestral piece was was to employ a recognizable Beethovenesque spirit with a personal touch. The work reflects the vast changes in orc...