Total Immersion: Esa-Pekka Salonen

10 Dec 2017, Barbican, London

19:30 Sun 10 Dec 2017 Next Event

成人快手 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season Total Immersion: Esa-Pekka Salonen

19:30 Sun 10 Dec 2017 Barbican, London

A rich survey of Salonen鈥檚 music with orchestra including the thrilling Wing on Wing inspired by the striking architecture of LA鈥檚 Disney Hall.

Programme

- - Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen
  - Gambit
  - Wing on Wing
  - Mimo II
  - Karawane

Performers

Composers

Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen

Concert Information

Finn on Finn perhaps! A Finnish conductor and two Finnish singers treat us to music by the Finn, Esa-Pekka Salonen in this climax of the Total Immersion weekend.

Sisters Anu and Piia Komsi sang in the 2004 world premiere of Wing on Wing, a work inspired by architect Frank Gehry鈥檚 Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles (and using taped samples of Gehry鈥檚 voice). Gambit from 1998 makes a powerful opener, a virtuoso overture. Mimo II (1992) for oboe and orchestra is a kind of super-theme-and-variations while the choral Karawane from 2014, setting a poem by the German Dadaist poet Hugo Ball, brings the story almost up to date.