Saariaho/ Smith - Works for Solo Cello Condition:New Recorded live in a barn

Recorded live in a barn in upstate New York

Her name is Kurau

& SHAWN RUDIMAN

Several years after completing jazz school together

living out of his van

Saariaho/ Smith - Works for Solo Cello Condition:New Recorded live in a barnThis solo album by cellist Wilhelmina Smith features works for solo cello by Esa Pekka Salonen and Kaija Saariaho. Both composers belong to a generation of modernist Finnish composers whose work has gained broad acceptance in musical culture throughout the world. While each composer has a clear individual artistic persona, as a group they are known for pushing sonic boundaries. In writing for strings and, in particular on this recording, the cello,