Patricia Kopatchinskaja on Dies Irae

is the the top questions of of really the the whole planet.

Thinking about the environment, I'm thinking about the end of the world, of course, of the Dies Irae.

Day of judgment, and of course, one of the strongest pieces ever written is the Dies Irae of Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer who almost nobody knows.

It's the center of this project.

Around this piece, we play other pieces which which are also very close to to the emotional state of spirit.

All the wars which we have now on our planet are because people get in trouble because of the climate change, and the project starts with this thematic, what is a war for us?

For example, we combine music of Biber and Crumb. Biber was born very shortly after the 30 Years War in Europe.

To combine this with George Crumb's Black Angels of his emotional reaction to the Vietnam War.

We go further to Michael Hersch's violin concerto, which is incredible dark, strong piece.

Looking inside in our soul, like opening all our wounds.

Facing the brutality of ourselves, of our destinies.

I find music a very rich territory for expressing things which we cannot express.