The Elastic Heart of YouthPreface – Notes of RenewalIf we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying it’s manifold apparent dissonances. – Jean Sibelius, In 1907, in conversation with Gustav Mahler.Originating in distinct musical dialects – Baroque, Classical, Nordic, Slavic, French, and contemporary – the works recorded here are bound together by a vivid, elastic heart: a profound spirit of vitality that endures through tension and release, stillness and motion, loss and restoration. Beneath their differing voices beats a kindred pulse shared with the natural world.Sibelius’s Le Sapin evokes the spruce’s calm and poise, it’s hushed sonorities suggesting their own logic of repose. Janacek’s Sonata 1.X.1905 bears witness – urgent, searching, unafraid-it’s broken arcs invoking the dissonances of modernity’s estrangement from nature and the fragile openings through which rebirth begins. Debussy’s etude pour les arp