Philharmonia Orchestra: Salonen conducts in London

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Salonen conducts in London

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 26 Jan 2012 7:30pm

conductor

The Prisoner

The Mother

The Gaoler/Grand Inquisitor

Brian Galliford

Priest

Francisco Javier Borda

Priest

Philharmonia Voices

Beethoven

Symphony No. 5

Dallapiccola

Il prigioniero

"The still point of the turning world": Music that defines an era is supported by

An opera of chilling political statement, Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero tells the story of a political prisoner whose jailor allows him to escape, apparently in a gesture of fraternity. In reality it is a cruel joke, as the prisoner reaches the fresh, open air only to run into the arms of the Grand Inquisitor who leads him away to be burned alive. The opera was composed between 1944-48 and reflects Dallapiccola’s disillusionment with Mussolini’s politics: he claimed that his writing would never be as light and carefree as it once was. The composer’s unique blend of lyrical writing in a serialist technique makes this opera searingly moving; and it ends with the prisoner simply whispering the word “Freedom?”.