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“Salonen poured it over a tumbler of ice in a reading... slower than any I’ve heard”
Reviewed at Philharmonie de Paris: Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Paris on 11 February 2021
Sibelius, Pelléas and Mélisande, suite for orchestra, Op.46: The Death of Mélisande
Sibelius, Symphony no. 6 in D minor, Op.104
Sibelius, Symphony no. 7 in C major, Op.105
Orchestre de Paris
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
Orchestre de Paris and Mäkelä wow Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw
****1
New season, new horizons: Salonen opens the Elbphilharmonie
****1
Rach 4 redefined: Mäkelä and Yunchan Lim set a new benchmark in Seoul
*****
Klaus Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris paint vivid pictures in Vienna
****1
Khatia Buniatishvili in search of her lost fingers
*1111
Fresh and flamboyant: Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris at the Proms
*****
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