| | Communication between people is the core of Joonas Kokkonen's music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Kokkonen is one of those composers who have created a musical universe of their own and managed to make their voice heard through the crusted patina of centuries of western art music polyphony. |
 | | In the Third Symphony, Kokkonen liberates himself convincingly from the mental limitations that the application of twelve-note structures on the material after all implied, and he unleashes his entire musical and sonorous fantasy without compromising the rigorousness of his symphonic principles. |
 | | Kokkonen has absorbed influences from near and far and, had he been armed to a lesser degree with personal integrity, he may well have become one of the most skilled eclectics of the 20th century. |
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