Salonen
Consolation for all those staff reports came in the evening when we went to the Beaux Arts to see Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. Thus we discovered a beautiful and trasnformational piece of early Schönberg, ‘Verklärte Nacht’, and Alexander von Zemlinsky’s lyrical symphony. Salonen is, quite simply, the goods. Just as the Latvians were out in force to see Mariss Jansons (see 30 January post), so the Finns were out for Salonen. Several of the EESC’s Finnish members were in the audience and during the entre acte they told me that it is actually easier to see their most famous conductor (and contemporary composer) in Brussels than in Helsinki
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