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 to their acts. What's really exciting is when you spark off a dialogue between very different… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested in the Grateful Dead as Palestrina. It pisses me off how compartmentalised music is. I used to be… — 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
