Unconscious Dimension

'... the singers' phrasing, harmonic direction and melodic sense all indicate how much this music is in their blood.'

Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) was undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's global musical masters. For Rautavaara the process of musical composition was always a mysterious and very often inexplicable entity. The composer often said that in the process of birth of his musical children, he was the midwife, not the mother; the mediator not the creator. Indeed, all throughout his composing career Rautavaara always strived to emphasise the unconscious dimension of music, its likeness to a mystery...