Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. — Charles Hazlewood Aunt Copy Share Image
I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version. — Charles Hazlewood Abhor Copy Share Image
In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes,… — Charles Hazlewood Always 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… — Charles Hazlewood Between 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… — Charles Hazlewood Concert Copy Share Image
I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is… — Charles Hazlewood Away 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… — Charles Hazlewood Admire 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… — Charles Hazlewood Average Copy Share Image
I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a… — Charles Hazlewood Beethoven Copy Share Image
For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because… — Charles Hazlewood Alive Copy Share Image
I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick… — Charles Hazlewood Always 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… — Charles Hazlewood About Copy Share Image
It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and… — Charles Hazlewood Colour Copy Share Image
People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music.… — Charles Hazlewood Actively Copy Share Image
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is… — Charles Hazlewood Age 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… — Charles Hazlewood Acts Copy Share Image
I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if… — Charles Hazlewood Apart Copy Share Image
I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they… — Charles Hazlewood Because Copy Share Image
[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect,… — Charles Hazlewood Believe Copy Share Image
Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance… — Charles Hazlewood Air Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, concerts were far more come-what-may - people played cards, drank beer and appreciated the music. If we go… — Charles Hazlewood Appreciated 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… — Charles Hazlewood Back Copy Share Image
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in… — Charles Hazlewood About 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 Betrayal Copy Share Image
It's wonderful doing concerts in places like New York and London, but I feel a responsibility to also bring my work home,… — Charles Hazlewood Also Copy Share Image
There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard… — Charles Hazlewood Always Copy Share Image
I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a… — Charles Hazlewood About 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 Fighting 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… — Charles Hazlewood Every Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'screw… — Charles Hazlewood Begun Copy Share Image
Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of… — Charles Hazlewood Come Copy Share Image
Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared… — Charles Hazlewood Among Copy Share Image
It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for… — Charles Hazlewood About 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… — Charles Hazlewood Absolute Copy Share Image
The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer… — Charles Hazlewood Another Copy Share Image
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as… — Charles Hazlewood Cathartic 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… — Charles Hazlewood Band Copy Share Image
When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky… — Charles Hazlewood Been 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… — Charles Hazlewood Amazing Copy Share Image
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