Concert and opera reviews from Southern California.
One of the many pleasures of resuming life post-Covid is seeing the return of beloved former Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, always adventurous and daring in his programming.
Read MoreConductor Esa-Pekka Salonen proved a superb colorist in this music. He reading was dark, tense, brooding in the narrative, and soft, warm, radiant in the Winterstürme.
Read MoreViolinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s “unique interpretation” of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s explosive The Rite of Spring.
Read MoreThe celebration of LA Phil’s 100th-anniversary season boldly looked into the future, not the past, with two avant-garde works – “LA Variations” by Esa-Pekka Salonen and “Sustain” by Andrew Norman.
Read MoreMr. Salonen still leads exciting performances on the podium, but the old romantic varnish has been replaced by a deepening sense of modern cynicism
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