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I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.
I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.
A hundred years ago, concerts were far more come-what-may - people played cards, drank beer and appreciated the music. If we go some way towards... →
Even if you're playing the most well-known repertoire under the sun, I still believe you have a responsibility as an artist to tell the audience... →
For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely... →
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra... →
I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the... →
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid... →
I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through... →
I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested... →
I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they want to, chase their toddlers, drink... →
I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'screw this' and dumped my laptop... →
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