After eight releases, in 2002 Leila Josefowicz bade farewell to her longtime label Philips and it took three years for her to re-emerge with another high-profile label, this time Warner Classics. Her first release thereon is the two-disc Leila Josefowicz Plays Beethoven, Ravel, Salonen, Grey, Messiaen. Outside of her recording of Messiaen on the ...
As this is written, Esa-Pekka Salonen has been director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 13 seasons. Recognition of the unqualified success of his partnership with the Philharmonic was immediate, but symphony audiences in Los Angeles were slow to develop the same warm and fuzzy feeling for Salonen's work as a composer. It's not that they didn't ...
From a cursory inspection of the hyperbolically titled Splendors of the 20th Century, one might guess that modern musical thought breaks down into three broad currents -- post-Romantic, modernist, and neo-Classical -- as represented in these works for cello and piano by Ludwig Thuille, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Paul Hindemith. Of course, there was ...
Esa-Pekka Salonen is known primarily as a conductor, particularly for his work with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but he considers himself essentially a composer with a day job as a conductor. His high profile as a performer certainly opens the possibilities for top-notch performances of his works, and he makes ample use of those opportunities, ...
Although the extraordinary artistry of pianist Gloria Cheng has an international reach, in a purely professional sense she is strongly connected to Los Angeles; Cheng teaches at UCLA and frequently appears as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This body is famously directed by a self-professed composer who also works as conductor, Esa ...
Spanish clarinetist Cristo Barrios is definitely a terrific talent on the clarinet; his sound is silvery, the voice of the instrument is free, and he has a wonderful sense of dramatic timing. This Metier recital disc, in which Barrios is paired with piano accompanist Clinton Cormany, probably won't find many takers outside of those who fancy the ...
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