#esa-pekka salonen

[aschenblumen]

Kaija Saariaho, Du Cristal (1990). Esa-Pekka Salonen, director

#kaija saariaho #du cristal #esa-pekka salonen

[orpheusz]

#kaija saariaho #esa-pekka salonen #gerald finley #dawn upshaw #monica groop #peter sellars #finish national opera chorus #finish national opera orchestra #l'amour de loin #susato

[already-14]

Hilary Hahn, violin Swedish Radio Symphony Ochestra Esa-Pekka Salonen, dir.

(via Schoenberg Violin Concerto Op. 36 Hahn - YouTube)

#youtube #hilary hahn #arnold schönberg #esa-pekka salonen

[nonesuchrecords]

It was 20 years ago today: the first recording of John Adams’s Naive and Sentimental Music, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, was released on Nonesuch Records. You can hear it again at link in bio, and in the new 40-disc box set John Adams Collected Works.

Naive and Sentimental Music was provoked by German poet Friedrich Schiller’s essay on conscious vs. unconscious impulses in art. The Los Angeles Times called it “compelling, original, and assured ... Adams’s most ambitious orchestral score.” In 2012, the San Francisco Chronicle included it among the best orchestral compositions of the previous 50 years, calling it a "bracing and beautiful essay, part philosophical treatise and part Dickensian adventure."

Design by Evan Gaffney. Photo: Untitled (Overhanging Rock, Glacier Point, Yosemite), c. 1883 by Gustavus Fagersteen.

#john adams #naive and sentimental music #los angeles philharmonic #la phil #esa-pekka salonen #20 years ago #otd #yosemite #nonesuch #nonesuch records

[hellocanticle]

Two Sono Luminus Discs of New Music by Icelandic Composers (mostly)

DSL- 92267 There are, by my count, at least 8 discs on this fine audiophile label dedicated to music by composers from Iceland. That country’s musical prowess deserves to be better known as does their world class orchestra. I’m reviewing these back to back releases together because they are both Iceland Symphony recordings presenting new music by (mostly) Icelandic composers. And they have a…

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#2001: A Space Odyssey #Anna Thorvaldsdottir #Bára Gísladóttir #cinematic #classical #Classical Music #Composers #contemporary music #Daniel Bjarnason #Double Bass #Esa-Pekka Salonen #Eva Ollikainen #Gustavo Dudamel #György Ligeti #Iceland Symphony #María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir #minimalism #Missy Mazzoli #Modern Music #Music #New Music #Sono Luminus #Zubin Mehta

[clamarcap]

Gemini

Esa-Pekka Salonen (30 giugno 1958): Gemini per orchestra (2019). NDR Elb­phil­har­monie Orchester diretta dall’autore. Pollux Castor [11:57]

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#Esa-Pekka Salonen #NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester #Youtube

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Playing

Lisa Batishvili ECHOES OF TIME

Esa-Pekka Salonen Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks

#currently playing #Esa-Pekka Salonen #Lisa Batishvili #Symphonieorchester #Des Bayerischen Rundfunks

[garadinervi]

A Portrait of Kaija Saariaho, BIS-CD-307, BIS Records, 1997. Verblendungen, 1984. Jardin secret I, 1985. Laconisme de l'aile, 1982. ...sah den Vögeln, 1981. NoaNoa, 1992

#graphic design #art #music #music album #cd #cover #kaija saariaho #camilla hoitenga #radion sinfoniaorkesteri #radions symfoniorkester #Esa Pekka Salonen #eira ojanen #atso almila #tapio laivaara #jouko teikari #margit rahkonen #tuula marja tuomela #saint john perse #bis records #1980s #1990s

[beardedmrbean]

Official observations of Finland’s 106th Independence Day began at 9am Wednesday with a flag-raising ceremony on Tähtitorni Hill in Helsinki's Ullanlinna district.

Hoisting the Finnish flag in bright, cold weather were members of a YMCA scout troop from Rastila, eastern Helsinki, accompanied with singing by the Viipurin Lauluveikot. The male choir was founded in 1897 in Vyborg, which is now part of Russia.

Delivering a speech at this year’s flag ceremony was Speaker of Parliament Jussi Halla-aho (Finns).

Independence Day commemorates December 6, 1917, when the Finnish Parliament approved a declaration of independence from Russia that had been issued by the Senate. Finland had been a Grand Duchy under the Russian Empire since 1809. The Senate was led by Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, who became the republic’s third president in the 1930s.

At 10.30, President Sauli Niinistö laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Helsinki's Hietaniemi Cemetery, followed by Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen (NCP) and the Defence Forces Commander, Gen. Timo Kivinen.

The annual Independence Day parade began in Oulu at noon, organised by the Finnish Army's Kainuu Brigade, which is based in Kajaani.

The parade view from the Raatti Stadium and the march past the Merikoski Bridges at 1pm were broadcast live on Yle channels, while a compilation of the highlights shown later.

Disruption at ecumenical service

Niinistö also took part in a traditional ecumenical service at Helsinki's Lutheran Cathedral at noon. The Lutheran Bishop of Oulu, Jukka Keskitalo, delivered the sermon, and a prayer was read in the indigenous North Sámi language.

Pastor Kari Kanala said in a social media post that the service was briefly disrupted by some attendees seated in an upper loft.

"Palestinian flags, a peace song, etc. I don't know what to think. In any case, we are here praying for peace anyway," he posted on X, adding that the disturbance only lasted for about a minute.

Helsinki Police Chief Commissioner Patrik Karlsson confirmed the incident to Yle. He said that 10 people participated in the protest, dropping two banners expressing support for Palestine from the loft. Police removed two people from the event, telling them they could continue their demonstration outdoors.

Police said they have received notifications of four other demonstrations later in the day, including two that were scheduled to begin at 4pm. A traditional university students' torchlight procession was to begin an hour later.

Sibelius and a TV gala

Beginning at 3pm, the Radio Symphony Orchestra offered an Independence Day concert from the Helsinki Music Centre. Featuring works by Finnish composers Magnus Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jean Sibelius, was broadcast live on Yle Teema and Areena, and at 7pm on Yle Radio 1.

The day culminates in the annual ball at the Presidential Palace, which starts at 7pm.

Niinistö and his spouse, Jenni Haukio, host the reception for the 10th and final time. They have hosted it annually since he took office in 2012 except in 2020-21, when it was cancelled due to the pandemic, replaced by modest virtual events. In 2013, the event was held in Tampere as the Presidential Palace was under renovation.

Voting for Niinistö’s successor begins just over a month from now.

The TV and online broadcast of the gala is typically Finland's most-watched media event of the year, sometimes attracting more than 2.5 million viewers.

#nunyas news #findependence day #updates from up north #Youtube

[sonateharder]

Amazing rangy piece on the new California Festival and the forces that made it possible.

#music #classical #california #new music

[lapinlunaire-games]

hello jinx! could u share 37 & 23 from your playlist please :3

hello arlo! absolutely <3

37. Love Story (Sarah Cothran) (love me a minor key cover)

23. Anna's Theme (John Corigliano, Esa-Pekka Salonen) (this is also from the Rougi playlist hahaha)

#thank you arlo!!! #<\:D

[aschenblumen]

Kaija Saariaho, ... à la fumée (1990). Esa-Pekka Salonen, director

Ayer, 2 de junio de 2023, murió Kaija Saariaho en Francia.

#kaija saariaho #...à la fumée #esa-pekka salonen

[warningsine]

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, an artist who offered a dazzling palette of colors in her music, died from complications of brain cancer Friday at her home in Paris. Her death was confirmed in a Facebook post by her family and shared by her publisher. She was 70 years old.

"I think that sound and color are not completely detached from each other," the composer told NPR last year. "That's maybe how it is in our brain. And I think that certain sounds, or certain kinds of music, can have even a specific smell. So I feel that all the senses are somehow present when I compose."

Her career began in a less sure-footed place. She explained that as a shy young composition student at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, some professors refused to teach her, saying that she was too pretty and would soon be married. It was her drive to compose that helped her get over the sexism. "Now when I think about it, it's a pity, but that's how that period was," she recalled. "At some point I thought, well, that's what they think — but I'm going to write my music anyway."

In 2016, Saariaho's already successful opera L'amour de loin became only the second opera by a woman (and the first in 103 years) to be staged at New York's Metropolitan Opera. When asked about the lack of visibility women composers have in today's opera houses, she remarked that during the Met run of L'amour, that topic was the only one journalists wanted to talk about. "With social media, the cult of personality has taken over," she said. "Could we finally speak about the music?"

Saariaho's most recent opera, Innocence, a story about a school shooting, just received its U.K. premiere in April at London's Covent Garden. The Telegraph called it a "modern masterpiece," and in a review, Nicholas Kenyon called it "a modern music-drama worthy to stand in the rich tradition that stretches from Monteverdi to Britten and beyond. It is a truly great opera for our troubled times." The opera will be staged at the Met in the 2025-2026 season.

Kaija Saariaho was born Oct. 14, 1952, in Helsinki. As a child, she had a vivid imagination, and would describe hearing melodies in her head. "When I was in bed in the evening, I kept hearing this music," she recalled. "I couldn't sleep, so I asked my mother if she could 'turn off' the pillow, because I was imagining that it came from the pillow. In my imagination, there was much sound and color, and it sometimes made me a little bit absent-minded because the sensations were very strong."

Early in her career, Saariaho was a member of Korvat Auki ("Ears Open"), a society of avant-garde composers who lobbied on behalf of contemporary music, which in their minds was not heard enough in Finland. Her constant striving for new sounds and new combinations of instruments led her to Paris in 1982, where she worked primarily at IRCAM, the institute for experimental music founded by Pierre Boulez. There she began a lifelong study of instrumental technique and sound, leading to a breakthrough work, Lichtbogen, which blurs the boundaries between acoustic and electronic instruments.

Saariaho would go on to write music in a broad spectrum of styles, including opera, ballet, songs, chamber music and concertos. Among the fervent champions of her music are soprano Dawn Upshaw, who sang in the premiere of L'Amour de loin, violinist Gidon Kremer, to whom the concerto Graal théâtre was dedicated, and conductor and compatriot Esa-Pekka Salonen, who has led many of her works.

The composer's death struck many, even in the classical music community, as a surprise; according to the statement from Saariaho's family, she had kept her illness fairly private. Amid many tributes from shocked fans on social media, British journalist Andrew Mellor described her as "a pioneer in every sense," adding: "In imagining states of natural light in music, she was up there with Haydn and Wagner. Maybe even beyond them." The composer David T. Little called her "a dramatist of profound depth."

Over her career, Saariaho earned many major composing awards, including the Grawemeyer Award, the Nemmers, Sonning and Polar Music Prizes and the Frontiers of Knowledge Award for music. In 2019, she was voted the greatest living composer by a BBC Music Magazine panel of 174 of her peers. She is survived by her husband, composer and multimedia artist Jean-Baptiste Barrière, her son Aleksi Barrière, a writer and director, and her daughter Aliisa Neige Barrière, a violinist and conductor.

Saariaho always seemed to be searching for new sounds and fresh ways to express herself. "Music is so fantastically flexible," she said. "It has been used in all the rituals and always it finds its place. So I hope that contemporary music like mine also finds its place."

#kaija saariaho

[jeremyesteban]

Esa Pekka Salonen, Violín concerto (2009).

Leila Josefowicz and Phillarmonia Orchestra.

Mirage

Pulse I

Pulse II

Adieu

#Elsa Pekka Salonen #Leila Josefowicz #Violín concerto

[if-only-angels-could-prevail]

Ok so it looks like I’m gonna do something in downtown chicago this evening but I have not decided what!!! Joffrey ballet Don Quixote?? The Matrix in 35mm?? Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe at the symphony?? Lookingglass Theatre’s Alice In Wonderland?? wtf how do I choose

[indie73]

San Francisco Symphony music director Esa-Pekka Salonen resigns

http://dlvr.it/T45G22