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Lutosławski Centenary
One of the 20th century's pre-eminent composers, Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI, would have been 100 years old this season. Our Conductor Laureate celebrates the great Polish musician with performances of LUTOSŁAWSKI’s Symphony No. 4 (originally commissioned by the LA Phil) and Les espaces du sommeil. Also, a Green Umbrella concert features works by LUTOSŁAWSKI, plus Salonen and Steven Stucky, two of LUTOSŁAWSKI’s most important advocates
Fri NOV 30 8pm, Sat DEC 1 8pm, Sun DEC 2 2pm
Salonen Conducts BEETHOVEN
As a cabaret pianist on the run from the Nazis in occupied Warsaw and then a staunchly independent composer denounced by Communist party apparatchiks, Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI survived some of the 20th-century’s grimmest years, and his cultural importance seems only to have grown since his death. LUTOSŁAWSKI became a close artistic associate of the LA Phil and Esa-Pekka Salonen in the last decade of his life, and his First Symphony will be recorded at these concerts to complete a Salonen/LA Phil cycle of the composer’s four symphonies for Sony Classical.
Artists:
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Program:
- BEETHOVEN: King Stephen Overture
- LUTOSŁAWSKI: Symphony No. 1
- LUTOSŁAWSKI: Fanfare for Los Angeles Philharmonic
- BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2
Tue DEC 4 8pm
Green Umbrella: LUTOSŁAWSKI Centenary
We celebrate LUTOSŁAWSKI with his Partita and his magical song-cycle Chantefleurs et Chantefables on Robert Desnos’ enchanting poems for children, as well as with works by two of LUTOSŁAWSKI’s most important advocates, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Steven Stucky.
Artists:
- LA Phil New Music Group
- Lionel Bringuier, conductor
- Laura Claycomb, soprano
Program:
- LUTOSŁAWSKI: Partita
- STUCKY: Ad Parnassum
- SALONEN: Homunculus
- LUTOSŁAWSKI: Chantefleurs et Chantefables
Fri DEC 7 8pm, Sat DEC 8 8pm, Sun DEC 9 2pm
TCHAIKOVSKY, SCHUMANN and more
Salonen is joined by acclaimed Canadian singer Gerald Finley for LUTOSŁAWSKI’s setting of another Robert Desnos poem, “The Spaces of Sleep.”Young French pianist David Fray plays SCHUMANN’s magnificently Romantic concerto. The program opens with Salonen’s newest orchestral creation.
Artists:
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
- David Fray, piano
- Gerald Finley, baritone
Program:
- SALONEN: Nyx (West Coast premiere)
- SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto
- LUTOSŁAWSKI: Les espaces du sommeil
- TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini