Finnish - Musician | June 30, 1958 -
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
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There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
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Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
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The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
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With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
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The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
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This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.
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If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.
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As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
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Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
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After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
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