I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.
From Nigel Kennedy
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?
If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.
You can't learn pathos or profundity.
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.
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