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Food for thought.
Esa-Pekka Salonen: “[I became increasingly interested in] the physical properties of music. That sounds silly, it’s like saying, ‘During my career as a chef, I became increasingly interested in how food tastes.’ But there we go. It shows you what kind of hole music had dug itself into at that point. It’s a profoundly different…
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El Cordero Pascual
“El Cordero Pascual” from La Pasión según San Marcos by Osvaldo Golijov [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3xEZuWEjww] Some background on the music: In 2000, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of J.S. Bach’s death, the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart commissioned four composers from different countries (Germany, Russia, China and Argentina) to write four Passions in the tradition, but not necessarily the…
