“Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that sort of Soviet Bloc period. And actually, a lot of composers in the Soviet Bloc - Gorecki's not the only one - are writing for the harpsichord as a sort of reaction against enforced Soviet realism, expressionism, sort of enforced modernism.” KnowsWritingKindPeriodsReactionsObsessedSovietComposerRealismModernismPersonal ThingsExpressionism Author:Mahan Esfahani
“I think, you know, for someone who does play, let's say, old music or, you know, Baroque music or Renaissance music - and you know, and I do play a lot of that, obviously - engaging with new composers, engaging with young composers, is really exciting because it makes me look at people of the past in a very different way that they are also living, that there was a lot of subjectivity in the decisions that they were making.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLooksDoeDifferentPlayPastYoungDecisionExcitingDifferent WaysComposerEngagingRenaissanceSubjectivityBaroqueOld MusicBaroque Music Author:Mahan Esfahani
