Portugal was a kind of ‘tabula rasa’ concerning contemporary music

Mundoclasico.com meets the German conductor Peter Rundel (Friedrichshafen, 1958) in his dressing-room in the Casa da Música auditorium, 45 minutes before Remix Ensemble’s concert with works by Edgar Varèse, Emmanuel Nunes and Alban Berg. He talks very kindly with me, like he has always done since the first day I met him in this auditorium, where he leads Remix Ensemble in this period of the Portuguese group of contemporary music.Paco Yáñez. First of all, thank you very much for this interview that you accepted to have in my last visit to this Casa da Música, on November 2006, in that wonderful concert by the Ensemble Modern, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke. In that time I found you in a great activity, preparing future concerts, in fact I think it was tonight’s one with Pedro Fuigueiredo, and having a time with your former colleagues of…