There is such a suspicion in today’s world of people who do more than one thing, who aren’t specialized. Esa-Pekka Salonen Read Quote
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other. Esa-Pekka Salonen Read Quote
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. Esa-Pekka Salonen Read Quote
When we’re at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically. Esa-Pekka Salonen Read Quote
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. Esa-Pekka Salonen Read Quote
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. Esa-Pekka Salonen Read Quote
I discovered that the people of the North are different and there’s no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They’re two different worlds. Esa-Pekka Salonen Read Quote
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever’s happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster. Esa-Pekka Salonen Read Quote
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can’t tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius. Esa-Pekka Salonen Read Quote
