- Kaija Saariaho
Emilie Suite (2011)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
- 1.1.1.1/2.1.1.0/timp.2perc/Hpsch/Strings
- Soprano
- 25 min
- Amin Maalouf
Programme Note
Kaija Saariaho’s Emilie Suite was a joint commission by Carnegie Hall, New York City, Cité de la Musique, Paris, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.
It was first performed on 30 November 2011 at Carnegie Hall by the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra and soprano Elizabeth Futral conducted by Hannu Lintu. The first performance in Paris took place on 23 April 2013 at Cité de la Musique by the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra and soprano Barbara Hannigan conducted by Ernest Martinez Izquierdo.
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...the concert’s most moving piece, Kaija Saariaho’s Suite from Emilie, drawn from her monodrama celebrating the uncompromising passions and genius of the 18th-century French philosopher and mathematician Emilie du Châtelet. She would die at 42 from puerperal fever and the suite of five movements reflects her premonitions of her demise, desperate to complete her translation of Isaac Newton’s Principia – she did – and to counter the oblivion conferred by death. The finesse of Saaiaho’s writing was mesmerising....
Discography
Kaija Saariaho: 70 Years
- LabelOndine
- Catalogue NumberODE 1407-2
- ConductorMarko Letonja / Christoph Eschenbach / Hannu Lintu / Sakari Oramo / Jukka-Pekka Saraste / Esa-Pekka Salonen
- EnsembleOrchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg / Avanti! Chamber Orchestra / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Meta4 / Orchestre de Paris
- SoloistWilhemina Smith, cello; Gerald Finley, bass-baritone; Camilla Hoitenga, flute; Anssi Karttunen, cello; Anu Komsi, soprano; Karita Mattila, soprano; John Storgårds, violin; Gabriel Suovanen, baritone; Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Karen Vourc'h, soprano
- ReleasedJanuary 2023
Saariaho, K: Émilie Suite, Quatre Instants
- LabelOndine
- Catalogue NumberODE1255-2
- ConductorMarko Letonja
- EnsembleStrasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
- SoloistKaren Vourc'h
- Released2015