Esa-Pekka Salonen: When I was asked to write a piece for solo horn for the Holger Fransman Memorial Competition, I agreed right away. I decided to write my own Concert Etude, and thus create a little...
For solo harpsichord.
For unaccompanied SSAA. First performed on 4th February 2011, at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris by Maitrise de Radio France conducted by Sofi Jeannin.
Composed for unaccompanied Double Mixed Chorus, these two songs were commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation for the 75th Anniversary Concert of the Swedish Radio Choir. Based on two poem...
This work was commissioned by the Singers of the Los Angeles Master Chorale to honour its 50th Anniversary Season, and by the Swedish Radio Choir.
Dichtotomie was intended to be composed in the January 2000 as a surprise new work for Gloria Cheng in Los Angeles, but wasn't finished until the following summer. It lasts a total of 17 minutes and i...
This is the full score for Five Images After Sappho, a work composed by Esa-Pekko Salonen for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble. This work was co-commissioned by the Ojai Festival, California and the Londo...
Esa-Pekka Salonen's first large scale orchestral work is this Concerto for saxophone and orchestra ('...auf den ersten blick und ohne zu wissen...') which dates from 1980-81 when he was undertaking an...
Homunculus is a short (circa 12 minutes) work for string quartet, which the composer wrote during the Autumn months of 2007 for the Johannes Quartet. He wanted to compose a piece that would be very co...
