What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.
Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers.
If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.
Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.