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

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

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

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

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

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

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