Composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen says that he loves to take risks, even to teeter on the brink of losing control. On this episode of Performance Today, the L.A. Philharmonic plays the world premiere of Pollux, by thrill-seeker Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Johann Sebastian Bach: Duos: Gavotte from English Suite & Invention No. 13 in A minor
Renaud Capucon, violin; Gautier Capucon, cello
Inventions: Renaud Capucon, Gautier Capucon
Virgin 32626
Mel Bonis: Suite Orientale
Sylvan Trio: Suzanne Bona, flute; Josh Aerie, cello; Greg Kostraba, piano
First Congregational Church of Webster Groves, Webster Groves. MO
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: Movement 1
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Union College Concert Series, Union College - Memorial Chapel, Schenectady, NY
Hour 2
Carl Nielsen: At the Coffin of a Young Artist
Orchestra of the Mill; Andrew Penny, conductor
Scandinavian String Music
Lydian 18132
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento in D, K. 136 Movement 3. Presto (this is all they played)
Ji-Won Song, Max Yiming Mao, Kenneth Naito, Noelle Naito, violins; Molly Wise, viola; Noemie Raymond-Friset, cello
U of MD Baltimore County (UMBC) Fine and Performing Arts Dept., Linehan Concert Hall, UMBC, Baltimore, MD
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Pollux
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Carl Nielsen: String Quartet in F major, FS 36, Op. 44
Danish String Quartet
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
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