Roger Hecht <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I have a friend in LA who attends the LAPO fairly often.  He takes the
>latter view.  he finds Salonen cold.  My friend is a died in the wool
>Furtwanglerite, if that gives you any perspective on him.  Can't tell
>you any more than that.

When I lived in California I saw Salonen and the LAPO give an incandescent
account of the Firebird.  In the closing chord sequence, the orchestra
responded to Esa-Pekka with a sound that I have never heard before or
since, live or recorded.  I wish he had recorded this piece, which will
never be quite the same for me again.  There were also rave reviews of his
Turnagalila a couple of years ago.  Dark and brodding - perhaps.  Cold --
not in this listener's book!

Tim