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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.
Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of... →
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.
So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
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