Kaija Saariaho: L'Amour: Opera: Vocal Score

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's Bosun's Cheer composed in 2014. Included here are the score and parts for the Modern Instrument Version arranged for a speaker Flute Cello and DoubleBass. Born in Helsinki and having studied composition there and in Freiburg and Paris Kaija Saariaho has achieved a great level of critical and audience acclaim now mid-career. Her previous workwas notable for including electronics alongside more traditional instruments before going on to compose much larger works including the epic opera 'L'Amour de Loin' in 2000 a recording of which won the 2011 Grammy award for bestopera recording.  This piece Bosun's Cheer is an exhilarating work including some inventive instrumental techniques as well as a hauntingly poeticvoice. The version for period instruments can be found  here .

Unlike many of Kaija Saariaho’s other works Terra Memoria has no electronic extensions but uses the traditional String Quartet to explore the mutability and changelessness of memories of ‘thosedeparted’. Kaija Saariaho is a contemporary Finnish composer living and working in Paris and considered to be part of the so-called ‘French Spectralist’ school of composition. She gained international renown forher first opera l’Amour Du Loin and continues a prolific compositional life with a wide range of international performances.