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

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.

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.