Esa‐Pekka Salonen

conductor and composer, Finland, 1958 to present

Albums

Year Title Average Ratings
1986 Symphony No. 4 / Helios Overture
1986 Messiaen: Turangalîla‐Symphonie / Lutoslawski: Symphony no. 3
1987 Symphony No.1 / Little Suite, Op.1
1987 Symphony no. 5 / Pohjola’s Daughter
1988 Violin Concertos
1988 The Firebird / Jeu De Cartes
1989 The Exuberant Harpsichord
1989 Grieg: Peer Gynt - Excerpts from Incidental Music
1989 Symphony no. 2 “Four Temperaments” / Pan & Syrinx, op. 49 / Aladdin Suite
1989 Des Canyons aux étoiles
1989 Mozart Variations and Fugue / A Romantic Suite
1990 Works for Piano and Orchestra
95 more releases
1990 Musica Sveciae: Serenad / Midvinter / Chitra
1990 Le Sacre du Printemps / Symphony in Three Movements
1990 Symphony no. 5 / Masquerade: Overture, Prelude, Dance
1991 Takemitsu Played by John Williams
1991 1812
1991 Symphonies No. 3 & 6
1991 A Nordic Festival - Nordiska Mästerverk
1991 Pulcinella / Octet / Renard / Ragtime
1991 Apollon musagète / Concerto in D / Cantata
1992 Romeo & Juliet (excerpts)
1992 Violin Concertos
1992 Piano Concertos nos. 2 & 3
1992 Lemminkäinen Legends, op. 22 / En saga, op. 9
1992 Oedipus Rex
1992 Symphony no. 4
1992 Peer Gynt: Excerpts From the Incidental Music
1993 Du Cristal / …À La Fumée / Nymphéa
1993 Förklädd gud / Pastoral Suite / Violin Concerto
1993 Kullervo
1993 Flute Concerto / Clarinet Concerto / Springtime on Funen / Rhapsodic Overture / Prelude to Act II of “Saul and David”
1993 Petrouchka / Orpheus
1993 Schoenberg: Piano Concerto / Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
1994 Nocturnes / La Damoiselle élue / Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien
1994 Symphonies nos. 3 & 4 / Les Espaces du sommeil
1995 Il prigioniero / Canti di prigionia
1995 Turangalîla-Symphonie
1995 The Three Piano Concertos
1995 Society of Finnish Composers: 50th Anniversary 1995
1996 Symphony no. 2 / Chantefleurs et chantefables / Piano Concerto
1996 Ligeti Edition 4: Vocal Works: Madrigals / Mysteries / Aventures / Songs
1996 The Film Scores
1996 Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
1997 Oboe Concertos
1997 Transfigured Night
1997 Violin Concertos
1997 Images / Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune / La Mer
1998 Symphony no. 4 in E‐flat major “Romantic”
1998 Symphony no. 3 in D minor
1999 Le Grand Macabre
1999 Sensemayá: The Music of Silvestre Revueltas
1999 Das Lied von der Erde
1999 Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2 / Piano Quintet
2000 Violin Concertos
2000 Bach Transcriptions
2001 Romeo and Juliet - Highlights
2001 Château de l'âme / Graal théâtre / Amers
2001 LA Variations / Five Images after Sappho / Mania / Gambit / Giro
2002 Naive and Sentimental Music
2002 Glass / Salonen
2002 Cantigas / Cello Concerto / Parada / Fresco
2003 Credo
2003 Clarinet Concerto / Liquid Marble / Violin Concerto No 1
2004 Piano Concerto / Kraft
2005 Sinfoniche metamorphosen / Die vier temperamente / Mathis der maler
2005 Wing on Wing
2005 Recital
2005 Réflexions
2008 Violin Concertos
2008 Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky and Lutoslawski
2009 Rhapsodic Musings
2009 Gurrelieder
2010 Symphonie Fantastique
2011 Echoes of Time
2011 Eleven Gates / Dreaming River / King Tide / Exquisite Corpse
2012 Out of Nowhere: Violin Concerto / Nyx
2013 Correspondances
2013 La Passion de Simone
2014 Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
2015 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales & Piano Concerto in G major - Debussy: Jeux - Esa‐Pekka Salonen: Nyx
2015 Sirens / Cold Heat / Beast Sampler
2016 Salonen: L.A. Variations & Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
2016 Wonderland: Piano Concerto / Lyric Pieces
2018 Symphonies no. 22 "Der Philosoph", no. 78 & no. 82 "L'Ours"
2019 Cello Concerto
2019 Works for Solo Cello
2019 Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs / Wagner: Arias from Tannhäuser
2019 Lise Davidsen
2019 Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 “Eroica” / Strauss: Metamorphosen
2020 The only one
2022 Salonen: Cello Concerto / Ravel: Sonata for Violin & Cello
2022 Pines of Rome, P. 141
2022 Emerging From Currents and Waves
2023 The Rite of Spring
2023 Piano Concertos
2023 Symphony no. 5
2024 The Firebird
2024 Music from Romeo and Juliet
2024 Adriana Mater
2024 Violin Concerto no. 2 / Liquid Marble
2024 Symphonie fantastique
2025 Symphony no. 1
2026 Symphony no. 2
2026 Violin Concerto no. 1
1812 Overture / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey
The Firebird / The Rite of Spring

EPs

Year Title Average Ratings
2023 Clocks and Clouds
2025 Symphony in Three Movements

Live

Year Title Average Ratings
2006 Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 7 & 8 / Hillborg: Eleven Gates
2006 Le Sacre du printemps
2007 Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall: Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
2009 Symphony No. 4
2010 Symphony no. 9
2011 Symphony no. 6
2012 Orango: Prologue / Symphony no. 4
2015 200 Motels: The Suites
2016 The Miraculous Mandarin / Dance Suite / Contrasts
2018 Perséphone
2023 Esa-Pekka Salonen in Verbier

Soundtracks

Year Title Average Ratings
2009 The Soloist (Music From the Motion Picture)