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Temps fort de la saison du Ballet de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, la soirée « Quatre tendances » associe cette année deux créations de Wiest et Casquilho et deux œuvres cultes de McGregor et León & Lighfoot.

Esa-Pekka Salonen enfile une double casquette de chef-compositeur et présente son œuvre Karawane avant d'enchaîner au podium pour une grande version de Daphnis et Chloé de Ravel avec l'Orchestre de Paris.

Après dix-huit mois de concerts sans public, Berwaldhallen revient à la vie avec le Baltic Sea Festival et son formidable concert d'ouverture, aussi intelligent que bouleversant.

Au Grand Théâtre de Provence, à Aix, un Esa-Pekka Salonen survolté a poussé dans ses retranchements l'excellent Philharmonia Orchestra, dans un programme fait de vagues et d'oiseaux. 

Modernité, brillance, rapport à l'histoire différent... le LA Phil a conquis le public parisien par son approche de la musique si rafraîchissante.

Le Théâtre National de Chaillot met la danse scandinave à l’honneur à l’occasion du « Festival Nordique ». Morphed, créée en 2014 par Tero Saarienen sur la musique d’Esa Pekka-Salonen, brosse un portrait primitif de la masculinité.

La musique de Stravinsky aurait pu être la ligne directrice de cette soirée, qui débutait avec Agon et se terminait par le Sacre du Printemps (version Pina Bausch). Mais Grand Miroir, la nouvelle création de Saburo Teshigawara, suspend le fil musical de Stravinsky par une parenthèse plus méditative : le Violin Concerto composé et dirigé par Esa-Pekka Salonen.

L.A. Dance Project, collectif fondé et dirigé par Benjamin Millepied, est de retour à Paris au Théâtre des Champs Elysées avec un programme néoclassique mêlant Martha Graham, William Forsythe, Justin Peck et Benjamin Millepied.

Stepping in for an indisposed Marta Gardolińska, the guest conductor leads a virtuosic performance of Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra paired with Leila Josefowičz playing Szymanowski’s Second Violin Concerto.

Salonen and the Orchestre de Paris opened the Elbphilharmonie season with a vivid journey from Strauss’s dramatic energy, through a reflective new Horn Concerto, to Sibelius’s luminous, precise grandeur.

The Finnish conductor drove the orchestra as expertly as a racing champion in Strauss, Bartók and Salonen's own Sinfonia concertante for Organ and Orchestra.

After an absence of more than two decades, Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to The Cleveland Orchestra, conducting his own Cello Concerto, flanked by Ravel and Sibelius.

In his second week of local performances, the Finnish composer-conductor offers a lush performance of music by a beloved collaborator, the late Kaija Saariaho.

Beginning a two-week residency, Esa-Pekka Salonen juxtaposed a work of his own with selections from two composers with which he is deeply identified: Sibelius and Steven Stucky.

A century of Finnish music from Sibelius to Salonen as Mikko Franck guest conducts at the Philharmonie. 

In a week when the New York Phil announced Gustavo Dudamel as its next Music Director, a former candidate rekindles “what if?” thoughts. 

Two forces of nature meet when Esa-Pekka Salonen and Olivier Latry share the stage for the German premiere of Salonen's own Organ Concerto, with a programme that also includes incandescent Bartók.

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his debut with the Berlin Phil in John Adams' fiendish Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?.

Australian Ballet's latest triple bill features fresh young talent and new names to watch in creations by Wayne McGregor, Alice Topp and Justin Peck.

La OSG arrancó numerosas ovaciones con un programa sólidamente construido entre los siglos XX y XXI, que sacó a relucir las cualidades de una excelente formación.

A nine-day celebration that could be also seen as a mini relaunch for the controversial building 

A concert with a considerable sense of occasion, as the orchestra bids the Finn farewell from his Philharmonia post. 

Listening to arrangements of Bach is like Dostoevsky’s challenge not to think about polar bears. It’s best to put the Bach out of your thoughts, even if “the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.”

Edo de Waart and the NZSO thrill with the old warhorse that is Schubert's ninth as much as in an insightful and exciting rendition of Salonen's Violin Concerto.

Salonen's own Cello Concerto lay at the centre of the evening's programme, with Truls Mørk as soloist. 

Bemerkenswerte Hörerlebnisse in Rotterdam: Nicolas Altstaedt macht das Cellokonzert von Salonen zu einem fast virtuellen Erlebnis.

Esa-Pekka Salonen brings the Baltic Sea Festival to an end in an eclectic, risk-taking programme of music by Biber, Beethoven and himself.

The Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra present two works at the Berwaldhallen that both look to the past and future.

A random assortment of disassociated ballets performed with variable success - from the sublime to the nondescript. 

Salonen's tribute to Gehry, Yasuhisa Toyota and Deborah Borda seems to come more from his brilliant visual palette than his emotional heart. 

Esa-Pekka Salonen's return to Walt Disney concert hall highlighted his gifts as composer and conductor alike and underscored how an orchestra can sound genuinely 21st century.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s spotlight on Salonen the creative artist also imparted thoughts on our interconnected world. 

Baiba Skride has an incredible way of naturally engaging the listener’s emotions while transcending with ease the most challenging demands of the score.

Boston Ballet opens the 2017-2018 season with a program full of power, grace and artistic unity

Paavo Järvi joined artist-in-residence Leif Ove Andsnes and the musicians of the New York Philharmonic for Rachmaninov, Salonen and Sibelius.

Mirga's approach to Beethoven's Fifth showed a flair for innovation, the highlight of a strong programme that also featured a virtuosic performance from Leila Josefowciz of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto.

A stimulating and imaginative programme, including folksy Ligeti, with striking Salonen and intense Bartók from Lawrence Power, finished off with powerful Mahler from Gustavo Gimeno and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

The origins of chamber music lie in a wish for music that could fit within a small room. On display at the New York Philharmonic last Friday were recent contributions that wished for the opposite.

Die Hamburger Elbphilharmonie beheimatet die deutsche Erstaufführung des Cellokonzerts von Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic somewhat overpower the hall for the music of John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen's concerto fascinates on a first hearing.

Maestro Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic gave the New York première of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Cello Concerto with soloist Yo-Yo Ma.

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto received a successful world première with Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony, the composer conducting, richly complemented by works of Adams and Stravinsky.

The company of ten is filled with very well trained dancers, mostly from Juilliard’s highly regarded dance program, and they are all quite good. 

The Royal Ballet revives Kenneth MacMillan’s The Invitation, to great public acclaim and with excellent performances in the main roles. The programme also features McGregor's new Obsidian Tear and Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour.

Wayne McGregor pulls together a stellar all male cast for the Royal Ballet's world première of hisnew work, Obsidian Tear. 

An eclectic program under Esa-Pekka Salonen's baton, highlighted by Lutosławski’s watershed Third Symphony and a Shostakovich concerto with Yo-Yo Ma.

A stunning work by Esa-Pekka Salonen, a dream landscape by Karol Szymanowski and a monumental tone poem by Richard Strauss recently made for a rich offering in Zurich.

Neo-Romanticism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism run delightfully amok in the second night of the New York Philharmonic's Barbican residency.

The New York Philharmonic lack the 'wow' factor in Salonen, Ravel and Strauss at the Barbican.