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Late night with Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen (photo: Benjamin Suomela)

Philharmonie »Late Night«

In his works – says Esa-Pekka Salonen – there must “always be room for irony and laughter”. In this Late Night, you can discover the humorous side of our Composer in Residence, such as in his fantasy Saltat Sobrius, which was inspired by the rhythmic drive of a medieval choral movement and conjures up the image of drunken dancers. Or Salonen’s instrumental piece Fog which was inspired by Bach’s Prelude from the Third Partita for Violin, whose melody flashes through the music again and again.

Pekka Kuusisto violin

Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker

Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor

Metamusik

Johann Sebastian Bach

Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: Prelude

Pekka Kuusisto violin

Caroline Shaw

Blueprint for string quartet

Peter Maxwell Davies

Fantasia on a Ground and Two Pavans

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Saltat sobrius, Fantasy upon “Sederunt Principes” by Pérotin

Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor

Missy Mazzoli

Dissolve, oh my heart for solo violin

Pekka Kuusisto violin

François Couperin

Les Baricades mistérieuses (arr. for clarinet, bass clarinet, viola, cello and double bass by Thomas Adès)

William Byrd

Two Motets (arr. Nico Muhly)

Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Fog for 13 Instruments

Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor

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Biographies

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen is renowned internationally as both a conductor and a composer. He was born in Helsinki, where he studied horn, conducting and composition at the Sibelius Academy. In 1979, he made his conducting debut with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. His international breakthrough was set in motion in 1983 when he stepped in to conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra, and a year later he made a sensational debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, of which he went on to become music director from 1992 to 2008. He was chief conductor of the Philharmonia from 2008 to 2021, and since 2020 he has headed the San Francisco Symphony. Salonen appears as a guest with numerous leading orchestras in Europe and the USA, and he has conducted opera productions at the Salzburg Festival, the Met and La Scala.