Browse: Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
This page lists all recordings conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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Lise Davidsen sings Wagner and Strauss RecommendedLise Davidsen (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Davidsen is no ordinary singer. Throughout the whole album one marvels at the voice, its easy grandeur and sheer size, its steely focus and security… The timbre has a default cool beauty but... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st May 2019
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Record Review, 8th June 2019, Record of the Week
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Stravinsky: Perséphone
RecommendedAndrew Staples & Pauline Cheviller
Finnish National Opera, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestral textures are clean yet sensuous, rhythms exactingly precise...In lesser hands, the score can seem episodic. Salonen, however, forges it into a unified drama, in which not a note or... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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Andriessen: The only one
RecommendedNora Fischer (soprano), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen
It ’s plain that The only one is among the final works of this brilliantly influential composer. There’s no sense of waning powers nor any loss of iconoclastic spirit in its unnervingly surreal... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Premiere
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There is much playing here of a clarity, velocity and exactitude that can make the jaw drop, and he, Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony seem to be on the same conceptual page throughout.... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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It’s a large, densely orchestrated work in which he experiments with “cosmic” textures, though it sounds far from experimental in an avant-garde sense. Using material from Knock, Breathe, Shine,... — More…
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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Schoenberg & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
RecommendedHilary Hahn (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
The Schoenberg is simply astonishing. Hahn and Esa-Pekka Salonen shows how much beauty and brilliance there is in this work. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th May 2009
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Stravinsky
RecommendedPaul Crossley (piano), Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), John Aler (tenor), Anne Sofie von Otter (Jocasta), Vinson Cole (Oedipus), Nicolai Gedda (Shepherd), Hans Sotin (Tiresias), Simon Estes (Messenger), Patrice Chéreau (narrator)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Los...
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, July 2019, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, July 2023, Recommended Recording (The Rite of Spring)
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Reflection
Helene Grimaud (piano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Truls Mørk (cello)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Esa-Pekka Salonen
…even if her Schumann Concerto had come out on its own… I'd still strongly recommend it. From her first two forte chords it is clear this is going to be something special. Every single phrase,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2006, Editor's Choice
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Dutilleux: Correspondances
RecommendedBarbara Hannigan (soprano), Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Here is an oeuvre, not only of precise, masterly workmanship, but infused with emotional warmth and, beyond that, with profound passions, evidenced not least in Dutilleux's sympathy for the persecuted...Hannigan... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Contemporary
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it is very good to have Salonen's version of the Second Symphony restored to the catalogue; he captures its elusive qualities, and the LA strings sound at their most potent here in the surging... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th March 2013
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Contemporary
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Grammy Awards, 29th Awards (1986), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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