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I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Age Albert Cast Closing Duet Embodies Enlightenment Evil Fabulous Great Hall Just Liquid Love Opera Orchestra Passion Pure Sound Triumph Way I Love

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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 - well, it's just the perfect combination.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Been Brings Combination Conduct Conductors He Hearing Just Made Me Out Passion Perfect Raw Revelation Ruined Slick Well Who Young

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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 he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Colour Does Force Forward He Life Looking Looking Forward Make Orchestral Perfectly Primal Rattle Really Rhythmic Riot Sheer Simon Symphony Understands Wonderful

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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 audience why you're playing it, what are the key aspects to it, and then throw in a bit about its historical context.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: About Artist Aspects Audience Believe Bit Context Even Historical Key Most Playing Repertoire Responsibility Still Sun Tell Then Throw Well-Known Why You

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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 idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Absolute Cancer Change Connect Conservatism Horror Idea Like Me Might More More People Music People Resistance Right Say Terrible Than Tremendous I Can

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Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Absolute Anyone Anyone Else Between Captured Condition Constantly Dance Else Few Few People Fine Fine Line Genius Grow Grow Up Happiness He Heartbreak Human Human Condition Joy Know Line More Most Mozart Necessarily Pain People Received Something Than Up Western Western World Which Why Wisdom World

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In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Always America Bar Calling Conductor Discuss Gag Goes Habit Player Slightly You

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It's wonderful doing concerts in places like New York and London, but I feel a responsibility to also bring my work home, to bring world-class, classical music to Somerset.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Also Bring Classical Classical Music Concerts Doing Feel Home Like London Music New New York Places Responsibility Wonderful Work World-Class York I Feel

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Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Cathartic Chance Classics Desperately Diverse Doorstep Dream Environment Field Genres Great Great Music High-End Hop Jazz Long-Term Making Me More Music Needs Orchestral Relaxed Share Trip Utterly

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I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: About Art Call Chosen Classical Classical Music Explode Few High Like Music Myths

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: November 14th, 1966

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