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Esa -Pekka Salonen says goodbye to the Philharmonia Orchestra

Live at the Royal Festival Hall. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Beethoven, Liszt, Stravinsky and Sibelius in his farewell concerts as the Philharmonia Orchestra's principal conductor.

Live from the Royal Festival Hall - The Philharmonia Orchestra is conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Esa-Pekka Salonen marks his departure as the orchestra's principal conductor with a series of concerts at London's South Bank Centre containing some of the works closest to his heart. In a typically ingenious programme, Salonen contrasts Beethoven's classically oriented First Symphony with the Romanticism of Liszt - in the hands of the great virtuoso pianist, Yefim Bronfman. And Salonen brings his brilliant sense of form and texture to the final symphony of his Finnish compatriot, Jean Sibelius. Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments, with its haunting, chorale-like closing bars has long been one of the conductor's party pieces and it makes a fascinating addition to a programme containing no fewer than three symphonies.

Beethoven: Symphony no. 1 in C major Op.21
Liszt: Concerto no. 2 in A major S.125 for piano and orchestra
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Sibelius: Symphony no. 7 in C major Op.10

Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

Presented live by Ian Skelly.

Photo credit: Benjamin Suomela

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Fri 4 Jun 2021 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 1 in C major Op 21

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.

  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Concerto No 2 in A major S125

    Performer: Yefim Bronfman. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.

  • Robert Schumann

    Arabeske in C major, Op 18

    Performer: Yefim Bronfman.

  • Anonymous

    Vechnaya pamiat [The eternal memory]

    Music Arranger: Konstantine Nikitin. Choir: Male Choir of Valaam Singing Culture Institute. Director: Igor Ushakov.
    • Russian Cavalry Part II.
    • Russian Compact Disc.
    • 15.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphonies of Wind Instruments

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 7 in C major Op10

    Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    24 Preludes, Op 34

    Performer: Igor Levit.

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Jun 2021 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3