Songs of Sunset and Dawn

It is not merely a meeting of two musical superstars, but also an encounter between two wholly different sounds: Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Piano Concerto, which evokes an image of a post-biological society with not only artificial intelligence, but also artificial forms of life with their own culture and history. Then, in exciting contrast, Raminta Šerkšnytė’s fusion of thriving neo-romantic sounds and playfully exploratory motifs and techniques in Songs of Sunset and Dawn, a composition that sets music to the writings of the Indian and Bengali poet and philosopher, Rabindranath Tagore.