Credits:

Sakari Oramo

Description:

An album featuring three previously unrecorded works by Saariaho, recorded by her longtime friends. The Sarikoski Song Cycle, consisting of five songs, sets to music poems by the poet Pentti Sarikoski (19371983) that explore the disconnect between personal ego and society/the public sphere, as well as the hopes he harbored in the French countryside. The fourth and fifth songs, composed during the COVID-19 pandemic, convey feelings of fear, a sense of crisis, and a feeling of being trapped. the disconnect between individual ego and society/the public sphere, and hopes he harbored in the French countryside. The fourth and fifth songs, composed during the COVID-19 pandemic, convey a sense of fear, crisis, and stagnation. Originally composed for piano accompaniment and later orchestrated, the work was completed just before Saariaho was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Vista was conceived during a driv