“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
“The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.” ThinkingTodayPeriodsInstrumentsCirclesSuspectsQuestionable Author:Mahan Esfahani
