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Proms 2017 Prom 24: Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts John Adams

Prom 24
Prom 24: Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts John Adams
19:00 Wed 2 Aug 2017 Royal Albert Hall
Moving from the glowing, multi-layered textures of John Adams to Ravel鈥檚 sensuous exoticism and Stravinsky鈥檚 intricate neo-Classical counterpoint, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra showcase 20th- and 21st-century orchestral classics.
Moving from the glowing, multi-layered textures of John Adams to Ravel鈥檚 sensuous exoticism and Stravinsky鈥檚 intricate neo-Classical counterpoint, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra showcase 20th- and 21st-century orchestral classics.

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John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music - excerpt (2017)
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John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music - excerpt (2017)
Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, to whom this work is dedicated.
Aug '17麻豆社 Radio 3

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The celebrations of John Adams's 70th birthday continue with his Naive and Sentimental Music, conducted by its dedicatee, Esa-Pekka Salonen. A symphony in all but name, the work glows with multi-layered textures.

From meditative Minimalism to intricate counterpoint in Stravinsky鈥檚 Canonic Variations on 鈥榁om Himmel hoch, da komm鈥� ich her' 鈥� a colourful 鈥榬ecomposition鈥� of Bach鈥檚 own chorale variations on the Lutheran hymn.

Rising French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa is the soloist in Ravel鈥檚 heady song-cycle 厂丑茅丑茅谤补锄补诲别, an exotic musical fantasy of distant lands and forbidden love.

Image: Marianne Crebassa 漏 Simon Fowler/Erato鈥揥arner Classics

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