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Juilliard Orch/Royal Academy Symphony Orch / Salonen/Frang review – student players let rip, eventually

Esa-Pekka Salonen led an orchestra of players from London’s Royal Academy of Music and New York’s Juilliard School through 20th-century classics with Vilde Frang the electrifying soloist in Berg’s Violin Concerto

The Guardian - UK

BBC Proms review: Salonen conducts 20th-Century Classics in style

4/5 Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the cream of Juilliard Orchestra and Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra in a fine evening at the BBC Proms

Evening Standard

Risk-taking, rigour and radicalism – Daniel Harding is an exciting prospect for Los Angeles

Also, happy 125th to the Wigmore Hall, and, the vivid soundworld of 16th-century Spain

The Guardian - UK

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Los Angeles Philharmonic announces Daniel Harding as next music director

The British-born maestro will replace Gustavo Dudamel as the orchestra’s chief conductor

The Guardian - UK

Elim Chan hired as San Francisco Symphony's first female music director

Elim Chan has been hired as the first female music director of the San Francisco Symphony

The Independent UK

Per Nørgård obituary

Danish composer driven by the concept of musical metamorphosis and a renowned symphonist

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Khovanshchina; Carmen review – the parallels with modern Russia are unmissable

Mussorgsky’s apocalyptic unfinished opera is given a fierce new lease of life by the McBurney brothers, Esa-Pekka Salonen and an exceptional young mezzo

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The week in classical: The Tales of Hoffmann; Philharmonia/ Salonen; Berlin Philharmonic/ Petrenko – review

Wild fantasies take hold in Offenbach’s compellingly strange opera; Lawrence Power is more than a match for Magnus Lindberg’s new Viola Concerto; and to the underworld with the Berlin Phil

The Guardian - UK

Lawrence Power/Philharmonia/Salonen review – commitment and virtuosity in works old and brand new

Two concerts, including the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s fiercely challenging Viola Concerto, showcased the versatility and communicative skills of Lawrence Power

The Guardian - UK

San Francisco Symphony music director Esa-Pekka Salonen resigns

Citing creative differences with the orchestra's board, the famed Finnish conductor and composer plans to leave when his contract expires at the end of the 2025 season.

WEKU

'Le Freak's Nile Rodgers Wins Swedish Music Prize

US disco legend Nile Rodgers, whose hits include "Le Freak" and "Good Times", won Sweden's 2024 Polar Music Prize with Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, the jury said on Tuesday.

International Business Times

What did the Cartier-scented performance of Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus smell like?

Cartier’s Mathilde Laurent and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra created a synesthetic performance of Prometheus, the Poem of Fire. Shonquis Moreno reports on the experience for Wallpaper*

Wallpaper

Appreciation: Composers are often revered but rarely beloved. Kaija Saariaho was both

LOS ANGELES — This year's Ojai Festival began Thursday night with a tribute to Kaija Saariaho, the Finnish composer who died earlier this month. For Ojai, Steven Schick performed an ethereal percussion piece inspired by the moss garden at the Kyoto temple Saiho-ji, which is the greenest place I have…

Los Angeles Times

Gustavo Dudamel to become the first Latino to head the New York Philharmonic

The 42-year-old Venezuelan conductor will be ending a heralded tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic that began in 2009.

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Dudamel to become NY Philharmonic music director, leave LA

Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the New York Philharmonic for the 2026-27 season, ending a tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic that began in 2009

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