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BBC SO Total Immersion: Esa-Pekka Salonen

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Picture of Sakari Oramo conducting

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

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’s Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles (and using taped samples of Gehry’s 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.

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Programme

  • Esa-Pekka Salonen   Gambit
  •   Wing on Wing
  •   Mimo II
  •   Karawane (UK premiere)

Esa-Pekka Salonen will introduce each work from the stage

Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • Sakari Oramo   conductor
  • Anu Komsi   soprano
  • Piia Komsi   soprano
  • Nicholas Daniel   oboe
  • BBC Symphony Chorus  

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