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

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

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

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

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?

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

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