Salonen Conducts The Firebird

Igor Stravinsky’s wild Russian folk-fable of a ballet The Firebird, retains the power to shock and enthrall into its second century. Kicking off this program conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen is Magnus Lindberg’s 2002 Bach-inspired piece Chorale. Alban Berg’s famed Violin Concerto— played here by Isabelle Faust— functions both as an elegy for a surrogate daughter who died too soon, and as a requiem for himself.