When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been a revelation - he brings out all its raw passion. And Gergiev with the super-virtuoso LSO… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do! — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story. — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal. — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit -… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Musical 'fusion' projects have earned themselves a bad name, but that's mainly because they often involve pop artists conscripting orchestras to play unimaginative backdrops… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
