Total Immersion: Spotlight on Kaija Saariaho with the BBC Singers

7 May 2023, Barbican, London

17:00 Sun 7 May 2023 Next Event

17:00 Sun 7 May 2023 Milton Court Concert Hall

The BBC Singers perform the vocal music of Kaija Saariaho – part of a day of Total Immersion in the sounds and thoughts of this visionary Finnish composer. Broadcast on 20 May from 8.25pm, on BBC Radio 3.

Programme

- - Kaija Saariaho
  - ReconaissanceUK premiere
  - Nuits, adieux
  - Tag des Jahrs

Performers

Krista Audere
conductor
conductor
Beth Higham-Edwards
percussion
percussion
Dominic Worsley
double bass
double bass
BBC Singers

Composers

Kaija Saariaho

About This Event

Even Kaija Saariaho’s smallest works contain multitudes, and in her vocal music she transfers her experience with electronic sound into something intensely human. “I think every singer always brings something new for them, and that’s what makes it interesting” she says.

The programme includes the UK premiere of Reconnaissance (2020), a powerful “science-fiction madrigal” inspired by images of Mars and the fragility of human ambition.

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.

Broadcast on 20 May from 8.25pm, on BBC Radio 3.