general information

composition date
1991
duration
5h
publisher
Chester Music
Commission
Toshiba-EMI Ltd, Aki Takahashi

type

Solo (excluding voice) (Solo piano)

detailed formation

piano

information about the creation

Japon, Tokyo

interpreters

Aki Takahashi.

Program note

Commande du pianiste japonais Aki Takahashi, cette pièce pour piano seul, rare exemplaire du genre dans l'œuvre de Kaija Saariaho, réinterprète deux mélodies des Beatles : Come Together et Happiness Is a Warm Gun.



Risto Nieminen, « Kaija Saariaho », Les Cahiers de l'Ircam, coll. Compositeurs d'Aujourd'hui n° 6, Ircam - Centre Pompidou, 1994.

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