Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
Esa-Pekka SalonenSometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.
Esa-Pekka SalonenSomehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.
Esa-Pekka Salonen