Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Béla Bartók’s ominous The Miraculous Mandarin, Bernard Herrmann’s Suite from the film Psycho, and HK Gruber’s raucous Frankenstein!! with baritone Christopher Purves.
Bartók, Herrmann, and Gruber
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Playlist
Bernard Herrmann (restored and edited John Mauceri): Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra
Béla Bartók: Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19
Heinz Karl Gruber: Frankenstein!!
Christopher Purves, baritone