Música, sólo música

Everyone knows that Haruki Murakami is passionate about modern music and jazz as well as classical music. This passion not only led him to run a jazz club in his youth, but also to infuse most of his novels and works with musical references and experiences. On this occasion, the most famous Japanese writer in the world shares with his readers his wishes, his opinions and, above all, his desire to know about an art, the musical, that unites millions of human beings around the world. To this end, for two years, Murakami and his friend Seiji Ozawa, former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, had these delightful conversations about well-known pieces by Brahms and Beethoven, by Bartok and Mahler, about conductors such as Leonard Bernstein and exceptional soloists like Glenn Gould, on chamber pieces and on opera. Thus, while listening to records and commenting on different interpretations, the reader attends juicy confidences and curiosities that will infect them with the endless enthusiasm and pleasure of enjoying music with new ears.