Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a program featuring Principal Clarinet Carey Bell performing Wolfgang Amadé Mozart's warmhearted Clarinet Concerto, while Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 closes ...
Sibelius’s First Symphony opens with mystery — the breathy sound of a single clarinet gradually joined by the distant rumbling of timpani — giving way to gorgeous, romantic, searching melodies.
There are two famous silences in the history of classical music: those of Rossini and Sibelius. Rossini's, which lasted nearly 40 years, was a worldly, cosmopolitan silence, much of it spent in Paris, ...
Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a program featuring Principal Clarinet Carey Bell performing Wolfgang Amad Mozarts warmhearted Clarinet Concerto, while Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2 closes the ...