And In English You Have This Wonderful

You Can't Expect Someone Born Into A Family With No Music...to Understand When I'm Conducting The Schönberg Variations.

Music Has The Capacity To Create A Greater Reality.

Sound Is Often Talked About In A Very Subjective Way, As If It Had A Colour. This Is A Bright Sound, This Is A Dark Sound. I Don't Believe In That Because I Think That Is Much Too Subjective.

I Always Maintain That Playing In An Orchestra Intelligently Is The Best School For Democracy. If You Play A Solo, The Conductor And Everybody In The Orchestra Follows You. Then, A Few Bars Later, The Main Voice Goes To Another Instrument, Another Group, And Then You Have To Go Back Into The Collective [sound]. The Art Of Playing In An Orchestra Is Being Able To Express Yourself To The Maximum But Always In Relation To Something Else That Is Going On.

Wagner Exploited All Forms Of Expression At A Composer's Disposal - Harmony, Dynamics, Orchestration - To The Extreme. His Music Is Highly Emotional, And At The Same Time Wagner Has Extraordinary Control Over The Effect He Achieves.