Radulescu interview

Paris Transatlantic Magazine published, about a year ago, a long interview with Horatiu Radulescu.

Although seasoned with a bit of folklore, stimulated by our man who shoots bluntly at history

He can’t stand Shostakovitch (“de la merde!”), dismisses Schnittke (“tuttifrutti!”), cordially dislikes Boulez (but admits that “he opened up a new sound world for all of us and his management skills come out well in front of the orchestra”)

and on colleagues

…such as Dusapin (the tritones of whose cello concerto “set my teeth on edge”) annoy him through their business skills, and he refers to the music spectrale crowd in Paris with scorn (“they’re the mafiosi”)

The interview is nevertheless interesting for gaining insight into the personality, history, education, and sources of inspiration of this composer who, like other contemporaries, loved early music more than the historically preceding one and sought to rediscover that ritual and almost sacred component of music that had been lost over time.

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