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At Aix-en-Provence Festival, Mediterranean Sunlight and Dark Themes
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE – Located in a region awash in Roman ruins, medieval hill towns, sun-drenched lavender groves, the Festival of Aix-en-Provence could easily coast along as a picturesque stop on...
View ArticleSalonen, Sibelius and Ravel
Composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the New York concert premiere of his Violin Concerto, featuring Leila Josefowicz as soloist, as well as Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Sibelius’s Symphony...
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Eric Owens, Esa-Pekka Salonen to Hold Posts with New York Philharmonic
The bass-baritone Eric Owens and the composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen will be featured presences at the New York Philharmonic next season, as artist and composer in residence, the orchestra said on...
View ArticleEsa-Pekka Salonen: New York Conducting Post Isn't on My Radar Yet
This weekend, Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen begins a three-year stint as the composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic. In concerts on Friday and Saturday, music director...
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Esa-Pekka Salonen on How Composers Evoke a Sense of Place
Last week I had the opportunity to have two conversations with Finnish composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, one in private and the other in front of a pre-concert audience at the New York...
View ArticleSalonen Conducts 'Bluebeard's Castle'
Tune in at 9pm on Thursday as guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, currently the New York Philharmonic's composer-in-residence, leads the orchestra in a Austro-Hungarian-themed evening.Ligeti's Concert...
View ArticleGilbert Conducts Salonen and Strauss
Thursday at 9 pm, listen to music director Alan Gilbert lead the New York Philharmonic in a pair of works written nearly a century apart. First, you'll hear Esa-Pekka Salonen's L.A. Varations, which he...
View ArticleSalonen Reveals the Dramatic Core of Strauss's 'Elektra'
If anything could drown out preoccupying thoughts about the Met's announcement of James Levine's retirement and transition to conductor-emeritus status, it's Elektra.Loud, nasty and relentlessly...
View ArticleEsa-Pekka Salonen Will Replace Levine in Met Orchestra Series
The holes on the Metropolitan Opera schedule caused by the retirement of music director James Levine are starting to fill up. A series of three concerts by the Met Orchestra to be presented at Carnegie...
View ArticleSalonen Leads Chéreau's Acclaimed 'Elektra'
This Saturday at 1 pm, listen to the live broadcast of Richard Strauss's powerful Elektra from the Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Based on the Sophocles play, the opera follows the...
View ArticleSibelius, Shostakovich, Salonen
Tune in Wednesday at 9 pm to hear Alan Gilbert conduct the New York Philharmonic in a program of 20th- and 21st-century works. First, he'll be joined by the violin virtuoso, Leonidas Kavakos on...
View ArticleEinojuhani Rautavaara, Prolific Finnish Composer, Dies at 87
Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, considered one the most important musical voices the country produced since Jean Sibelius and a teacher to a younger generation of Finns, died in Helsinki due to...
View ArticleAlan Gilbert Conducts Ravel's Piano Concerto
Tune in Thursday at 9 pm as Alan Gilbert leads the New York Philharmonic in Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, with Inon Barnatan as the soloist. The program also includes the Finnish composer Esa-Pekka...
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