麻豆约拍

Music Matters Clips

1. "The public are not stupid. They are being given something, and they're choosing whether to like it or not."

   Duration: 09:08

2. 鈥淚 have changed quite a lot, which has meant that I haven鈥檛 repeated myself quite as much as I thought.鈥�

   Duration: 14:11

3. 鈥淚 cannot say that I鈥檓 in love with opera, it鈥檚 just like this is my profession, this is my job.鈥�

   Duration: 13:05

4. 鈥淚f I had to take one composer to a desert island to play or to listen to, it would be Beethoven.鈥�

   Duration: 09:57

5. "I think he was an end, more than a beginning."

   Duration: 09:40

6. "What Aldeburgh has to offer the world of music, is something that the world of music desperately needs."

   Duration: 07:09

7. "It's fascinating - even the facsimiles and the first editions, I read it like Agatha Christie."

   Duration: 12:16

8. "If I do a new production, I want to be in contact with the director, and I want to develop something together as a team."

   Duration: 15:53

9. "Don't scare people with classical music - it's ok if they don't enjoy something."

   Duration: 14:03

10. "I am very shy of naming myself 'composer'...but I say I write some compositions, and this is good for me."

    Duration: 07:31

11. "It's great to use your imagination with something that hasn't ever been played before."

    Duration: 10:10

12. "Tonality is like gravity 鈥� we cannot pretend that it doesn鈥檛 exist"

    Duration: 10:17

13. 鈥淚鈥檓 always trying to think 鈥榃hat really represents me?鈥� and 鈥榳hat do I want to hear?鈥� and 鈥榳hat do I want to dive into?鈥欌��

    Duration: 10:05

14. 鈥淵ou go on to the stage and you think, before you go on, "Ok, this is a gift. And I have to do my best."

    Duration: 09:21

15. "That鈥檚 the problem with recordings, they鈥檙e there forever, as some kind of statement of what you believe about a piece."

    Duration: 14:31

16. "We have to bring what we can bring as artists and say 'This is what we do, this a normal functioning mechanism of the voice'."

    Duration: 08:51

17. "We're the only opera house that has a true global constituency. We're in every continent except Antarctica."

    Duration: 12:42

18. "To have such a draconian cut, in comparison to other opera institutions, is bizarre."

    Duration: 10:55

19. "The paper and notes are my enemies, actually. They're in my way between the composer, myself, the orchestra and the public."

    Duration: 09:34

20. "I am a musician who uses the voice like an instrument. That always was my dream and my vision of how to make music."

    Duration: 12:03

21. "Albeniz is, for me, maybe one of four composers who completely changed the history of piano music."

    Duration: 13:47

22. "Brazil, it's in there. It's in my blood and in my life."

    Duration: 12:52

23. "Analysing and then understanding Boulez or Chopin, there鈥檚 not too much difference"

    Duration: 10:21

24. "For being the interpretors, we have to bring our emotions, our imagination, our commitment, our reflection, our culture"

    Duration: 13:14