Name: Total Immersion: Oramo conducts Kaija Saariaho
Start: 2023-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Sakari Oramo

Singer

Anssi Karttunen

Cello

Soprano

Anu Komsi

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Total Immersion: Oramo conducts Kaija Saariaho

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

Public

Private

Du Cristal

Notes on Light

Saarikoski Songs (Orchestra version)

Circle Map

Approved

"All day and night, music..." The ancient Persian poetry that inspired Kaija Saariaho's Circle Map, a hybrid painting of Persian script and musical notation with Jean-Baptiste Barrière's video work projected on screen, could serve as a motto for this Total Immersion day . Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in four orchestral works dating from 1989 to 2020 – including the UK premiere of the orchestral Saarikoski Songs, performed by their dedicated soprano Anu Komsi.

"It's always the inner space that interests me" says Saariaho, but when her creative imagination ignites, the human mind can accommodate the entire cosmos. From the ravishing cello concerto Notes on Light to the early landmark Du Cristal, this is music that uses every color on the spectrum, and invents some new ones too – a spectacular conclusion to this day of total immersion in her expanding sonic universe.

This day of events will now take place on Sunday 7 May, previously scheduled for Saturday 6 May, in respect of His Majesty King Charles III's Coronation.

English

Uznanie za predstavenie (Obsadenie & Tím )

Súbor