Kaija Saariaho
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Championed by Gidon Kremer, the Kronos Quartet and Dawn Upshaw and a friend and associate of Magnus Lindberg and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Saariaho's music is haunting and resonant with an atmospheric immediate beauty.
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From the Grammar of Dreams
Kaija Saariaho's music has the power to draw an audience into a state of almost mystical contemplation. In
From the Grammar of Dreams she has chosen a programme of her works including the award-winning
Lonh for soprano and electronics, as well as a five-song cycle set to words by Apollianaire, Holderlin, Sylvia Plath and Shakespeare. Queen Elizabeth Hall