Evolution and transformation, obsession towards a goal. This is my modus operandi in music. My conviction is that one’s personality can prevail despite changes and seemingly different presentation of the ideas. Can an artist stop being himself when he expresses his ideas in different ways? Do I cease being myself if I dress in a conventional suit today and in a colorful “toreador” costume tomorrow?

All these questions come to mind when thinking about the works on this CD. Symphony No. 5 and Prague Sinfonietta present as their basic structure a transformation in a surrealistic manner; Divertimentos is an absolute contrast to Quasi un Pasodoble in its character, although not in its technical substance.

Nothing surprised me more as a school child than when I learned that molecules change constantly in our bodies although we remain the same in