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, writing for some outstanding international ensembles and soloists. The Los Angeles Philharmonic and pianist Yefim Bronfman are featured here in the composer's Helix, a work for ...
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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, writing for some outstanding international ensembles and soloists. The Los Angeles Philharmonic and pianist Yefim Bronfman are featured here in the composer's Helix, a work for orchestra, and his Piano Concerto and Dichotomie for piano solo. Each of the pieces demonstrates Salonen's ability to incorporate the rigorous disciplines inculcated by his training with modernists such as Franco Donatoni and Niccolò Castiglioni into a friendlier musical language more characteristic of his teacher Einojuhani Rautavaara and his colleagues Magnus Lindberg and John Adams. While his music would never be mistaken for theirs, the composers whose music his most resembles in the...
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