Beat / What memories do you have of the Silencio recordings?
Moritz von Oswald / I had just come back from a DJ gig, I think from Norway. I was completely exhausted. But when I arrived there, I was wide awake from one second to the next. I had only played with a choir in an orchestra once before. And I realised from conducting that how extremely difficult it is to get the music together. Especially when it comes to opera. I‘m a big fan of opera, I have to emphasise that. Especially when it comes to the choir: once you‘ve been exposed to a choir piece that means something to you, it‘s simply irretrievable. These voices have such depth!
Beat / Why is it difficult?
/ Violins and violas have a very soft attack. You can achieve a similar effect with voices as well, ofconsonants, with their hard attack, were not always entirely convincing on the part of the singers. At least that‘s how I felt. But I must also say that I was lucky to have a large choir in the first place and that I wasn‘t alone – although I do think it was also a challenge for the conductor, Jarkko Riihimäki.
