Ornaments forgotten: The RSB plays works of farewell under Matthias Pintscher

In modern times, the perception of music is becoming increasingly spatial. While the works of Haydn and Brahms reveal themselves from the end as the goal of a musical process, the music of Debussy and Webern onwards becomes increasingly kaleidoscopic, with beginning and end rarely presented as states of incomplete and incomplete information. And so it can happen that a conductor like Matthias Pintscher, who was first a composer, perceives a piece like Maurice Ravel's "La Valse" not from its catastrophic collapse, but from its comprehensively listened-to instrumental timbres.