Klaus Mäkelä storms the heavens with a program inspired by the Pythagorean conception of the “music of the spheres,” pairing Richard Strauss’s Thus Spake Zarathustra with Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy. Good Lord, both in one evening?! But there’s more, folks! For blast-off, Mäkelä has picked Asteroid 4179: Toutatis, Kaija Saariaho’s tribute to Gustav Holst’s universal favorite, The Planets (pun decidedly intended). World premieres by Pascal Dusapin (A Linea, meaning “indentation,” as at the start of a new paragraph) and the Peruvian Jimmy López Bellido (Aino, meaning the “only one”) round out the bill. —Matthew Gurewitsch
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For the World Traveler
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä: Saariaho, R. Strauss, López, Dusapin, Scriabin
The concert hall at the Philharmonie de Paris.
When
September 8, 2022