BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season Total Immersion: Esa-Pekka Salonen - BBC Symphony Orchestra

10 Dec 2017, Barbican, London

19:30 Sun 10 Dec 2017 Next Event

Total Immersion: Esa-Pekka Salonen

19:30 Sun 10 Dec 2017 Barbican, London

A rich survey of Salonen’s music with orchestra including the thrilling Wing on Wing inspired by the striking architecture of LA’s Disney Hall.

Programme

- - Esa‐Pekka Salonen
  - Gambit
  - Wing on Wing
  - Mimo II
  - Karawane

Performers

Anu Komsi
soprano
soprano
Piia Komsi
soprano
soprano
Nicholas Daniel
oboe
oboe
Sakari Oramo
conductor
conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus

Composers

Esa‐Pekka Salonen

Concert Information

Finn on Finn perhaps! A Finnish conductor and two Finnish singers treat us to music by the Finn, Esa-Pekka Salonen in this climax of the Total Immersion weekend.

Sisters Anu and Piia Komsi sang in the 2004 world premiere of Wing on Wing, a work inspired by architect Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles (and using taped samples of Gehry’s voice). Gambit from 1998 makes a powerful opener, a virtuoso overture. Mimo II (1992) for oboe and orchestra is a kind of super-theme-and-variations while the choral Karawane from 2014, setting a poem by the German Dadaist poet Hugo Ball, brings the story almost up to date.