Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Kaija Saariaho: Reconnaissance - Choral Music (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 364 Mb | Total time: 81:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2662 | Recorded: 2022
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 364 Mb | Total time: 81:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2662 | Recorded: 2022
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.