Word: pekka
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...required for great musicmaking has been accepted uncritically by audiences, performers and boards of directors alike. Now, with the surprising appointment of Claudio Abbado, 56, to succeed the late Herbert von Karajan at the august Berlin Philharmonic, and the even more unexpected engagement of Finland's Esa-Pekka Salonen, 31, to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic, two new generations are finally laying claim to the world's great orchestras. Coming shortly after the selection of Myung-Whun Chung, 36, to lead the Opera de la Bastille in Paris, the appointments indicate a fresh breeze whistling through classical music...
Behind Slatkin is a group of younger conductors seeking their break into the big leagues. Among them: Finland's Esa-Pekka Salonen, 30, principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony; England's Simon Rattle, 34, who leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain; and Russian-born Semyon Bychkov, 36, who this month will jump from the Buffalo Philharmonic to the Orchestre de Paris. All must wait until a death or a retirement creates an opening in the front ranks...
NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 5; MASQUERADE (CBS). Somebody has to make a case for Carl Nielsen, and Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen certainly does, both in the strikingly original symphony and the dazzling excerpts from the opera...
NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 5; MASQUERADE (CBS). Somebody has to make a case for Carl Nielsen, and Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen certainly does, in both the strikingly original symphony and the dazzling excerpts from the opera...
CARL NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 1; LITTLE SUITE, OP. 1 (CBS/Masterworks). The neglected First Symphony, sizzling in the hands of the young Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen...