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- Kaija Saariaho
Laconisme de l'aile (1982)
- Jase Musiikki (World)
- Flute & electronics (see link above for details)
- 9 min
- 9th May 2025, Wolkenburg Festsaal, Cologne, Germany
Programme Note
For full information on the electronics and performance guide, please see 'more info'.
Flute has always been to me an important instrument. Laconisme de l'aile, my second piece for a solo flute was started in Freiburg and finished in Paris in 1982.
As starting points I had ideas about blending the rhythms of speech and timbres of breathing into more traditional flute expression.
The text fragments are borrowed from Saint-John Perse's Les Oiseaux, Birds, and the title refers to birds, meaning something like 'the tersenes of a wing'.
I had in my mind, despite of bird song, above all the different ways birds fly, winning the gravity, crossing the sky. The solo flute draws these lines into acoustic space.
Kaija Saariaho
Flute has always been to me an important instrument. Laconisme de l'aile, my second piece for a solo flute was started in Freiburg and finished in Paris in 1982.
As starting points I had ideas about blending the rhythms of speech and timbres of breathing into more traditional flute expression.
The text fragments are borrowed from Saint-John Perse's Les Oiseaux, Birds, and the title refers to birds, meaning something like 'the tersenes of a wing'.
I had in my mind, despite of bird song, above all the different ways birds fly, winning the gravity, crossing the sky. The solo flute draws these lines into acoustic space.
Kaija Saariaho
Media
Features
- Kaija Saariaho’s Poetic Montages
- From the very beginning of her career as a composer, Kaija Saariaho has turned to poetry as a material and inspiration for her music. The forms and logics of poetry have played a defining role in her output since then.
Discography
Let the wind speak
- LabelONDINE
- Catalogue NumberODE 1276-2
- EnsembleDa Camera of Houston
- SoloistCamilla Hoitenga, flute; Anssi Karttunen, cello; Daniel Belcher, baritone; Heloise Dautry, harp
- Released1st November 2015
kaija saariaho l'aile du songe
- LabelNAÏVE
- Catalogue NumberMO782154
- ConductorJukka-Pekka Saraste
- EnsembleFinnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- SoloistCamilla Hoitenga, flute
- Released1st September 2002
Kaija Saariaho - Chamber Music
- LabelKAIROS
- Catalogue Number0012412KAI
- EnsembleWolpe Trio
- SoloistAndreas Boettger, percussion
A Portrait of Kaija Saariaho
- LabelBIS
- Catalogue NumberBIS-CD-307
- ConductorEsa-Pekka Salonen
- EnsembleFinnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- SoloistCamilla Hoitenga, flute
- LabelDana Cord
- Catalogue NumberDACOCD 423
- SoloistPia Kaufmanas, flute
Oiseaux tendres
- LabelBIS
- Catalogue NumberCD 689
- SoloistManuela Wieser, flute
