I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.