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...monastery, a child prodigy and a victim of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. These stories, alas, are utterly predictable. Still, Samuel L. Jackson breaks through the crust of cliches as an expert called in to verify the instrument's provenance, and violinist Joshua Bell plays and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts John Corigliano's score ravishingly...
...Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Bernard Herrmann: the Film Scores (Sony Classical). Remember the shower in Psycho? Hitchcock may have been the director, but it was the gruff, bluff composer Herrmann who brought the scene to vivid, shrieking life. Salonen eloquently states the case for this and seven more of Herrmann's best scores...
Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 (Sony). Krzysztof Penderecki may be better known, but Lutoslawski, a composer of uncompromising integrity, was the dean of contemporary Polish composers. He died in February, but his work lives on in these splendid readings by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Particularly noteworthy is the Fourth Symphony, Lutoslawski's last and most moving orchestral essay...
...best movie tradition, a self-effacing young man from a small, socialized country is being hailed up and down Santa Monica Boulevard by banners welcoming him to his new West Coast home. Call it Mr. Salonen Goes to Hollywood. Or maybe Esa-Pekka Does Disneyland. In four years the orchestra will move from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Music Center to the $114 million, Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall under construction nearby. Salonen's high-concept dream: "To conduct Bruckner in Walt Disney Hall -- a meeting of Bruckner and Donald Duck. Both were part of my tradition...
...Conductor for the Next Millennium: Salonen in Los Angeles...