Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.