Kazuki Yamada

As a thank-you for his interpretation of her oratorio ›La passion de Simone‹, Kaija Saariaho transformed the eighth station of her ›Passion‹ into the floating sonic form ›Lumière et pesanteur‹ in honour of the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. It follows in the tradition of Bach. His Chaconne crowns his profound Partita No. 2, in which the harmony repeatedly brightens with hope, despite the lamenting basic tone. Unlike Saaria, Bruckner did not dedicate his final and unfinished Ninth Symphony to a contemporary but instead, also in the tradition of Bach in a sense, to »the dear God« – and left to p