Total Immersion: Esa-Pekka Salonen Esa-Pekka Salonen's Dichotomie - BBC Symphony Orchestra

10 Dec 2017, Milton Court

13:00 Sun 10 Dec 2017 Next Event

Esa-Pekka Salonen's Dichotomie

13:00 Sun 10 Dec 2017 Milton Court

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s fascination with timbre and texture is stripped bare in this concert of his music on a smaller scale.

Programme

- - Esa‐Pekka Salonen
  - Dichotomie
  - Second Meeting
  - Yta I
  - Memoria

Performers

Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Composers

Esa‐Pekka Salonen

Concert Information

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s smaller-scale works reveal, as if under a microscope, his fascination with the intricacies of music. His 17-minute Dichotomie, which he wrote in 2000, is a fascinating creation that ‘deploys aggressive but constantly shifting rhythmic mechanisms whose origins lie in Prokofiev, while its second [movement] seems closer to the flowing spontaneity of the Ligeti Études’ (Gramophone). It is a powerful addition to the modern piano repertoire and a highly rewarding listening experience.