Total Immersion | Esa-Pekka Salonen | December 10
7th December 2017
On December 10, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, BBC Singers, Guildhall School of Music Drama, and the Barbican dedicate a day to the best of the Finnish composer’s work in the latest of the Total Immersion series. The BBC-led focus will feature a line up of film, choral music, chamber works, and symphonic repertoire, providing a rare opportunity to hear a range of works from Salonen's prolific career. See below for the full concert listings.
A highlight of the programme is the UK premiere of his 2014 choral symphonic work, Karawane. Written originally for the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, it is based on a text by the same name by Hugo Ball (1886 1927), a German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists. Karawane is a nonsense sound poem with a unique language triggering associations with a great variety of existing languages without rooting clearly in one specific language. Speaking at a masterclass at the Guildhall earlier this year, Salonen suggested the work might be heard as a ‘ponderous circus caravan, with all its noises, constantly moving but in no time and space, with no destination.’
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Total Immersion | Esa-Pekka Salonen
Barbican Centre | December 10, 2017
11am | Film | Cinema 3
Anti Maestro
A candid portrait of Esa-Pekka Salonen at work conducting his own and other works with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
1pm | Chamber Music | Milton Court
Guildhall Musicians
Dichotomie (Salonen)
Second Meeting (Salonen)
YTA I (Salonen)
Memoria (Salonen)
3pm | Esa-Pekka Salonen in Conversation | Fountain Room
5pm | Choral Music | Milton Court
BBC Singers, Baldur Brönnimann (conductor)
Two Songs from Kalender Röd (Salonen)
Our Joyful’st (Rautavaara)
Dona Nobis Pacem (Salonen)
Missa a Capella (Rautavaara)
Iri da iri (Salonen)
7:30pm | Concert | Main Stage
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Anu Komsi (soprano), Piia Komsi (soprano), Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Gambit (Salonen)
Wing on Wing (Salonen)
Mimo II (Salonen)
Karawane - UK premiere (Salonen)
Salonen on stage | Obsidian Tear
Wayne McGregor’s Obsidian Tear, set to Salonen’s music in 2016, returns to the Royal Opera House from April 14 to May 11 2018. Inspired by the brooding symphonic poem Nyx and Salonen’s virtuoso violin solo Lachen verlernt, McGregor explores the tribal behaviour of an all-male group.
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