Salonen conducts his own latest orchestral work to launch this program, followed by rising star violinist Daniel Lozakovich, hand-picked by Salonen to play the Tchaikovsky. Salonen and the LA Phil also perform one of their signature works, Bartók’s late masterpiece, which shows off every section of the orchestra to full advantage.
Susanna Mälkki conducts Strauss’s iconic Also sprach Zarathustra, which launches with a majestic fanfare that hails a primeval sunrise and ends in a chord that suggests the mystery of the universe. She also leads the Philharmonic in Haydn’s Philosopher Symphony; listen for French horns and English horns engaging in a musical conversation in the remarkable opening Adagio.
Salonen conducts his own latest orchestral work to launch this program, followed by rising star violinist Daniel Lozakovich, hand-picked by Salonen to play the Tchaikovsky. Salonen and the LA Phil also perform one of their signature works, Bartók’s late masterpiece, which shows off every section of the orchestra to full advantage.
Susanna Mälkki conducts Strauss’s iconic Also sprach Zarathustra, which launches with a majestic fanfare that hails a primeval sunrise and ends in a chord that suggests the mystery of the universe. She also leads the Philharmonic in Haydn’s Philosopher Symphony; listen for French horns and English horns engaging in a musical conversation in the remarkable opening Adagio.
Susanna Mälkki conducts Strauss’s iconic Also sprach Zarathustra, which launches with a majestic fanfare that hails a primeval sunrise and ends in a chord that suggests the mystery of the universe. She also leads the Philharmonic in Haydn’s Philosopher Symphony; listen for French horns and English horns engaging in a musical conversation in the remarkable opening Adagio.
Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki returns for a program of sensually colorful French music as well as the American premiere of Swiss composer Dieter Ammann’s new work for piano and orchestra, written for the German-born Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger.
LA Phil Centennial celebration with Salonen, who not only brings music by Sibelius but also the premiere of his complete Castor and Pollux. Joining him for Luonnotar is stunning South African soprano Golda Schultz.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the New York Philharmonic in his own works about mythological twin brothers, Pollux the demigod and Castor the mortal, with music to match their temperaments. Plus, radiant strings, stirring chorales, and noble brasses evoke paintings — “The Concert of Angels,” “The Entombment,” and “The Temptation of St. Anthony” — by the 16th-century […]
Rising Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska and Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski perform with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Tchaikovsky's First Concerto, Sibelius' First Symphony and a new work by Julia Wolfe.
Rising Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska and Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski perform with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Tchaikovsky's First Concerto, Sibelius' First Symphony and a new work by Julia Wolfe.