Works for Orchestra by Kaija Saariaho and A Bugle Will Do by Anthony Ritchie review

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9th June, 2012
KAIJA SAARIAHO: WORKS FOR ORCHESTRA (Ondine 4CD). Although Russian Sofia Gubaidulina, South Korean Unsuk Chin and Finn Saariaho are female mainstreamers overseas, the last two are relatively unknown here. Both have won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, a virtual Who’s Who of modernism, along with names such as Witold Lutosławski, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Tan Dun and Toru Takemitsu. Saariaho was also 2008’s composer of the year for performing arts and music website Musical America, for being “among the few contemporary composers to achieve ...

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