Sibelius ’Death of Melisande’ - Salonen conducts

As an encore to the second of their two Proms concerts in 1998, given at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic played this beautiful and moving excerpt from Sibelius’s Incidental Music to “Pelleas and Melisande.“ Another Sibelius work from this same concert, “Lemminkainen’s Return,“ has also been uploaded here. Note: Apologies for the video quality. Those were VHS video cassette days, pre-DVD!