20 EVERLASTING SEASONS After several recordings devoted to American music, what is your frame of mind as you return to the Romantic repertoire? Vanessa Wagner: Although what is sometimes known as ‘minimalist’ music has played a very important role in my life recently, I have never stopped playing the Classical and Romantic repertoire. In particular, I’ve had a long relationship with the works of Grieg. I’ve known his Lyric Pieces since I was a child, and I still get immense pleasure from playing his Concerto. Nevertheless, I would say that my exploration of the so-called minimal movement has opened doors that I hadn’t gone through before. It’s a mysterious, introverted universe that gives you the feeling of being in a state of improvisation and travelling inside yourself. The space-time continuum is different there. My playing is now nourished and, I believe, enriched by it. I take more time to say things and I’m not afraid of slowness. Music interests me above all when it develops a form of intimacy.
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