Esa-Pekka Salonen: Nyx - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (2/2)

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Nyx (2010)
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Helsinki Music Centre, 25 January 2013
The FRSO recorded this piece in 2011 in Helsinki. This is the Finnish concert premiere. The world premiere was performed in Paris.

[@Julz777]

Indeed! Esa-Pekka is giving contemporary music a new relevance.

[@NikolasCaoile]

Awesome. My new favorite. I hear Adams, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Ravel, Messiaen.

[@cculwell1]

I am not sure he can write something more intense, more powerful, more guttural than this, but for someone to have written a composition of this sustained intensity is quite amazing.

[@rr7firefly]

Stunningly fresh and alive -- it's wonderful to have new music of this caliber and sonorous beauty.

[@geschiedschrijver]

What incredibly beautiful music !

[@monsterlove2323]

Kind of sissy stuff, though.

[@rr7firefly]

I love all of Salonen's compositions, and here especially those "dark" chords in the last two and a half minutes!

[@baldevis]

I'll be hearing him perform this piece here in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra this coming April. It was fascinating for me to get this preview of the piece. I'm looking forward to hearing what the CSO makes of it with him.

[@nazarspas7192]

Bravo, special for horns😉