Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen: When I was asked to write a piece for solo horn for the Holger Fransman Memorial Competition, I agreed right away. I decided to write my own Concert Etude, and thus create a little...

Composed for unaccompanied Double Mixed Chorus, these two songs were commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation for the 75th Anniversary Concert of the Swedish Radio Choir. Based on two poem...

This work was commissioned by the Singers of the Los Angeles Master Chorale to honour its 50th Anniversary Season, and by the Swedish Radio Choir.

For unaccompanied SSAA. First performed on 4th February 2011, at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris by Maitrise de Radio France conducted by Sofi Jeannin.

Dichtotomie was intended to be composed in the January 2000 as a surprise new work for Gloria Cheng in Los Angeles, but wasn't finished until the following summer. It lasts a total of 17 minutes and i...

Esa-Pekka Salonen's first large scale orchestral work is this Concerto for saxophone and orchestra ('...auf den ersten blick und ohne zu wissen...') which dates from 1980-81 when he was undertaking an...

Homunculus is a short (circa 12 minutes) work for string quartet, which the composer wrote during the Autumn months of 2007 for the Johannes Quartet. He wanted to compose a piece that would be very co...

Homunculus is a short (circa 12 minutes) work for string quartet, which the composer wrote during the Autumn months of 2007 for the Johannes Quartet. He wanted to compose a piece that would be very co...

Memoria was written as a gift for the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra on their 20th anniversary. It was first performed on 30th November 2003 at the Helsinki Conservatoire, Finland, by members of the Avanti...

Score available: CH67958.

For Solo Cello.

Salonen's work YTA 1 For Alto Flute Solo is created on a different scale Altogether from the composer's Orchestral works. Arising from an early ambition to write a large collection of virtuoso solo pi...

Composer's NoteSecond Meeting was written in January 1992. The first performance took place in Stockholm in February (Bengt Rosengren, oboe and Stefan Bojsten, piano). The work belongs to a planned s...

Work for Solo Violin commissioned by the La Jolla Chamber Music Society's SummerFest La Jolla. Lachen Verlernt starts with a lyrical, expressive melody that gradually becomes faster and more frenzied...

Work for Violin and Guitar composed in 1979.

This work was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti, Music Director Designate, and New York City Ballet...

In the words of the composer 'Insomnia was written between March and November 2002. Technically speaking, it is a set of variations based on a harmonic model separated by a Ritornello-like section, wh...

Composer's Note YTA is Swedish for 'surface'; my series of three YTA's - YTA 1 (alto flute), YTA 2 (Piano), YTA 3 (Cello)- were written with particular performers/friends in mind, and in each piece I...

For solo harpsichord.

This three-movement concerto has an easy appeal. Salonen works magic with colour, and the score bursts with imaginative touches. Ideal fodder for those burgeoning cellists out there.

This is the full score for Five Images After Sappho, a work composed by Esa-Pekko Salonen for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble. This work was co-commissioned by the Ojai Festival, California and the Londo...