Photograph by Ventiko 

​Musical interpretation finds itself confronted, too, by another scenario: that of man’s archaic inheritances, his deepest fears, his psychic residues of a bygone past that continuously resurface and even form an integral part of civilization. Music ... has the power to untie unconscious energies and retell them. Music plunges itself into the most obscure reaches of the soul. But the successful interpretation belongs less to a motion of deliverance than a kind of self-annihilation in the sublime. Against effusive clichés, it defies expectations and manages an economy of stringency. Far from an exhibition of desire, a great interpretation equates more to a process of mourning. 

Hugues Dufourt