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

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

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

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.

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.