Summary: Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen discusses the thematic link that ties the three composers whose works are performed on this program — Haydn, Bartók, and Ligeti — and explores Ligeti’s dreamlike and hypnotic Clocks and Clouds. New York Philharmonic Artistic Administrator John Mangum talks about the folk-derived elements heard in Haydn’s Symphony No. 8, Le Soir. Podcast host Elliott Forrest explores Bartók’s “eerie and percussive” Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring Olli Mustonen, and the scandalous Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin.
