ALBUMBerlioz: Symphonie FantastiqueEsa-Pekka Salonen & San Francisco Symphony
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ALBUMBerlioz: Symphonie FantastiqueEsa-Pekka Salonen & San Francisco Symphony
ALBUMSaariaho: Adriana MaterFleur Barron, Axelle Fanyo, Nicholas Phan, Christopher Purves, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMProkofiev: Music from Romeo and JulietEsa-Pekka Salonen & San Francisco Symphony
ALBUMStravinsky: The FirebirdEsa-Pekka Salonen & San Francisco Symphony
ALBUMDebutHanxuan Liang
ALBUMSibelius: Symphony No. 5Esa-Pekka Salonen & San Francisco Symphony
ALBUMBartók: Piano ConcertosPierre-Laurent Aimard, San Francisco Symphony & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMStravinsky: The Rite of SpringEsa-Pekka Salonen & San Francisco Symphony
ALBUMDG Concerts: Stravinsky: The Firebird (1910 Version)Los Angeles Philharmonic & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMHammerklavierMakiko Hirata
ALBUMReger: Variations and Fugue, Op. 132 - Romantic Suite - Works for OrganSinfonie Orchester des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMDG Concert LA 2006/2007 - Shadow of Stalin - Ligeti: Concerto Romanesc / Husa: Music for Prague / Lutoslawski: Concerto for OrchestraLos Angeles Philharmonic & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMReger: Mozart Variations and Romantic SuiteSouthwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMPiano Music by Salonen, Stucky and LutosławskiGloria Cheng
ALBUMDG Concert - Shadow of Stalin: Ligeti, Husa & LutoslawskiLos Angeles Philharmonic & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMSalonenYefim Bronfman, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMStrauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30Zubin Mehta, Glenn Dicterow, New York Philharmonic, Stockholm Chamber Orchestra & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMReflectionStaatskapelle Dresden, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Hélène Grimaud, Truls Mørk & Anne Sofie von Otter
ALBUMWing On WingEsa-Pekka Salonen & The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMLindberg: Piano Concerto, KraftMagnus Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Toimii Ensemble
ALBUMHindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber & The Four Temperaments & Mathis der Maler SymphonyEsa-Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic
ALBUMCredoHélène Grimaud, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMMarsalis: All RiseWynton Marsalis, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Paul Smith Singers, The Northridge Singers of CSUN, Morgan State University Choir & Los Angeles Philharmonic
ALBUMAdams: Naive and Sentimental MusicEsa-Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic
ALBUMAdams: Naive and Sentimental MusicEsa-Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic
ALBUMThe Music of Magnus LindbergAnssi Karttunen, Christopher O'Neal, Esa-Pekka Salonen & Philharmonia Orchestra
ALBUMThe Music of Magnus LindbergAnssi Karttunen, Christopher O'Neal, Esa-Pekka Salonen & Philharmonia Orchestra
ALBUMChâteau de l'âmeEsa-Pekka Salonen, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gidon Kremer, Dawn Upshaw, Anssi Karttunen, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
ALBUMShostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Piano QuintetYefim Bronfman, Juilliard String Quartet, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMSibelius/Goldmark: Violin ConcertosJoshua Bell, Esa-Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic
ALBUMLigeti: Le Grand MacabreEsa-Pekka Salonen & Philharmonia Orchestra
ALBUMThe Music of Silvestre RevueltasEsa-Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic
ALBUMMahler: Symphony No. 3Esa-Pekka Salonen, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Anna Larsson
ALBUMTiensuu: Le Tombeau De Mozart - Crusell: Introduction Et Air Suédois VariéGregory Barrett
ALBUMLiszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Sonata in B MinorEmanuel Ax, Esa-Pekka Salonen & Philharmonia Orchestra
ALBUMLindberg : Metal Work, Ablauf, Twine, Kinetics & Jeux d'anchesEsa-Pekka Salonen, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kalevi Ohenoja, Kari Kriikku, Matti Rantanen, Tapio Aaltonen, Tim Ferchen & Tuija Hakkila
ALBUMChâteau de l'âmeAnssi Karttunen, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dawn Upshaw, Esa-Pekka Salonen, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gidon Kremer & Members of the Finnish Radio Chamber Choir
ALBUMStravinsky: Oedipus RexAnne Sofie von Otter, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Swedish Radio Chorus & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
This Finnish conductor/composer brings great passion to modern orchestral works.
About Esa-Pekka Salonen
Artist Biography
While many classical music composers end up working as conductors, few have been able to pursue both roles with as much rigour and success as Finland’s Esa-Pekka Salonen, who has also been one of the greatest and most prolific advocates for contemporary music of the late 20th and early 21st century. Born in Helsinki in 1958, he studied at the Sibelius Institute, where his classmates included fellow conductors Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Osmo Vänskä and composer Magnus Lindberg. He conducted for the first time in 1979, in a performance leading the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 1983, conducting became his vocation following a last-minute assignment filling in for Michael Tilson Thomas leading London’s Philharmonia Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. Salonen served as principal guest conductor there until 1995, while also serving as a principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra between 1984 and 1995. He’s best known as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic between 1992 and 2009, where under his leadership the orchestra gave 120 world or American premieres and commissioned more than 50 new works. After serving as guest conductor of the San Francisco Symphony between 2004 and 2015, he became its music director in 2020. Salonen has written more than 50 works of chamber and symphonic music, and has also advocated the digital dissemination of classical music, including an advertising campaign with Apple Music.
Hometown
Helsinki, Finland
Genre
Classical
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