Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Bruckner and Salonen

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Stefan Dohr, horn

Esa-Pekka SALONEN Horn Concerto (American premiere; BSO co-commission)
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4, Romantic

Before Esa-Pekka Salonen became one of the world’s most renowned conductors, he started his musical life as a working horn player and progressive composer. He brings his musical worlds together in leading the American premiere of his Horn Concerto composed for Stefan Dohr, principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic. The concerto draws on material from Anton Bruckner’s magisterial, brass-friendly Fourth Symphony, which Salonen has programmed for the second half of this concert. Bruckner’s soaring symphonies are frequently described as “cathedrals in sound.”