Saariaho Choral

Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Kaija Saariaho: Reconnaissance - Choral Music (2023) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Sept. 21, 2023

This recording presents Kaija Saariaho's works for choir, a cappella and with electronics, and displays her virtuosity in the treatment of texts, which she endows with the full range of verbal expression. At least one of these works is also a discographic premières. Nuits, adieux, presented here both in it's a cappella version and with electronics, could be described as a lullaby, not so much for a sleeping child as for an elderly person sleeping out of our world. Funny and very serious at the same time, Horloge, tais-toi was conceived for a children choir.

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Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek - Saariaho: Reconnaissance (2023) Music

Posted by delpotro at July 4, 2023

Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek - Saariaho: Reconnaissance (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 341 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 192 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:21:32
Classical, Choral | Label: BIS

This recording presents Kaija Saariaho’s works for choir, a cappella and with electronics, and displays her virtuosity in the treatment of texts, which she endows with the full range of verbal expression. At least one of these works is also a discographic premières.

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Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek - Saariaho: Reconnaissance (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at July 4, 2023

Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek - Saariaho: Reconnaissance (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 81:32 minutes | 1,4 GB
Classical, Choral | Label: BIS, Official Digital Download

This recording presents Kaija Saariaho’s works for choir, a cappella and with electronics, and displays her virtuosity in the treatment of texts, which she endows with the full range of verbal expression. At least one of these works is also a discographic premières.

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Norwegian Soloists' Choir; Oslo Sinfonietta; Grete Pedersen - AS DREAMS: Norgard, Janson, Saariaho, Lachenmann, Xenakis (2016) Music

Posted by Designol at Jan. 2, 2022

The works that make up this adventurous release are all, to quote Shakespeare, "such stuff as dreams are made on". In various ways these recordings refer to night and dreams, to the distant past or to an uncertain future. With composers from Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany and Greece, and texts ranging from fragments of ancient Assyrian and Sumerian and 8th-century Wessobrunner Prayer to many other places, the concept of "here and now" become blurred and dreamlike.

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SWR Vokalensemble, Marcus Creed - Finland: Sibelius, Saariaho, Talvitie, Rautavaara, Linkola (2017) Music

Posted by tirexiss at April 1, 2017

If there is a country famous for its reservoir of extraordinary musicians and its significant composers in particular, then it's Finland, which is all the more astonishing when you consider the size of its population - Finald has 5.5 million inhabitants. The country's distinguished tradition of music-making is fundamental to this reputation for artistic excellence. Finland can be rightly called a "country of singers". Even when it comes to contemporary compositions, traditional music always plays an essencential role in the pieces, contributing to their accessibility.

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Dawn Upshaw, Esa-Pekka Salonen - Kaija Saariaho: La Passion de Simone (2013) (Repost) Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 15, 2017

La Passion de Simone is an oratorio for solo soprano, choir, orchestra, and electronics by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. Originally premiered in a stage version directed by Peter Sellars, this oratorio about the life and work of French philosopher Simone Weil, has been developed in a new version for live video by Jean-Baptiste Barriere. This new version premiered at the occasion of the 60th birthday celebration of Kaija Saariaho, offered to her as a surprise gift in Helsinki’s Musikkitalo earlier this month.

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Helena Tulve - Arboles lloran por lluvia (2014) Music

Posted by Designol at July 27, 2022

Recorded by the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and various soloists and ensembles in churches in Tallinn as well as the Estonian Concert Hall, the five compositions heard on Arboles lloran por lluvia (Trees cry for rain) give deeper insight into the unique sound-world of Estonian composer Helena Tulve, into music that is nourished by both contemporary and ancient currents. Tulve draws upon a wide-range of inspirational sources. She explores the raw fabric of sound and the nature of timbre in both analytical and instinctive ways, in compositions that are unmistakably her own, yet her work is inclusive - here incorporating aspects of Gregorian chant, melody from Yemenite Jewish tradition, and texts from Sufi, Sephardic and Christian mystic poetry. Reyah hadas 'ala (The Perfume of the Myrtle Rises) unites the ensemble of the Gregorian chant and the early music instruments. This is the only work in which Tulve has used a pre-existing melody, a song of the Yemenite Jews. Extinction des choses vues (The Extinction of the Things Seen) is an orchestral piece in which the musical ideas are derived from a text by the Jesuit thinker Michel de Certeau called Extase blanche (White Ecstasy).

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Helsinki Chamber Choir - Reconnaissance (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at June 16, 2023

Helsinki Chamber Choir - Reconnaissance (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 81:33 minutes | 1,41 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

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Sir Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker - The Berlin Years (2024) Music

Posted by Rtax at April 20, 2024

Sir Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker - The Berlin Years (2024)
XLD Rip | FLAC (image, cue, log, booklet) - 10.7 GB
46:31:12 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

The chemistry between tradition and innovation powered Sir Simon Rattle’s relationship with the Berliner Philharmoniker, above all during his time as the orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director (2002-2018). As the successor to Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado, his mission was to take this pre-eminent musical institution into the 21st century. “What Rattle has brought … is a new spirit of adventure,” declared The Times in 2006, and later looked back on the “exhilarating, epoch-hopping eclecticism of Simon Rattle’s era in Berlin”. Through all this Rattle preserved the orchestra’s distinctive sonority, notable, in the words of the New York Times, for its “sheer grandeur … and rich, red-blooded warmth”. He first conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1987, and the recordings in this 45CD box span the years from 1994 to 2012. Very much reflecting Rattle’s vision for the orchestra, the symphonic, choral and operatic works range from pillars of Austro-German Classicism, Romanticism and Modernism through French, Russian and Czech repertoire to showcases for contemporary contemporary composers from around the world – and even a film soundtrack. As Rattle said at the end of his tenure in Berlin: “Music is for everybody, and we’ve all believed this.”

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