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Instrumentalists

Virtuosos, interpreters, and musical communicators.

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

Miklos Perenyi is recognized as one of the great cellists of his generation.
"Don't scare people with classical music - it's ok if they don't enjoy something."

Valentina Lisitsa, classical music YouTube star, now performs in concert halls worldwide.
"It's fascinating - even the facsimiles and the first editions, I read it like Agatha Christie."

Petroc Trelawny talked to Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder in his home town of Vienna.
鈥淚f I had to take one composer to a desert island to play or to listen to, it would be Beethoven.鈥�

The British pianist John Lill turned seventy in March 2014.
Just the Two of Us: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Raphael Wallfisch

We hear from the Cellists Raphael Wallfisch and his mother Anita Lasker-Wallfisch.
Just the Two of Us: Sir Neville and Andrew Marriner

Sir Neville Marriner and his son, Andrew, discuss their musical relationship.
"Superficiality is the worst thing you can bring to the arts."

Pinchas Zukerman, conductor & violinist, talks about one of his great passions: teaching
"I can't stand the atmosphere of competing."

Portuguese pianist Maria Joao Pires talks about plans for a quieter life on turning 70
"I hate the phrase 'Classical Music'. Let鈥檚 call it music."

Pianist James Rhodes spoke to Petroc Trelawny in the Music Matters studio in 2014.
"What I really wanted to do was to eat music. I just wanted to devour the stuff."

American pianist and academic Joshua Rifkin talked to Petroc Trelawny in 2013.
"That was something I worked really hard on, was to develop what I had to say in those most pure, peaceful moments of music."

Former 91热爆 Young Musician Nicola Benedetti has gone on to forge an acclaimed career.
"I want a really strong connection with the audience. I want everybody to love the composer the way I love him."

German violinist Christian Tetzlaff is one of the leading musicians of his generation.
"It's difficult to predict what will happen in the future, but there's so much fantastic repertoire that keeps things exciting"

Daniil Trifonov talks about the daunting reality of having the musical world at his feet
"It's all intertwined...each experience is like a beautiful thread in a fabric."

Midori tells Tom Service how her work with children inspires what she does on stage.
"I suppose that's one of the reasons why I like Baroque music, it does leave an enormous amount of liberty to the performer."

Conductor and harpsichordist William Christie founded Les Arts Florissents in 1979.
"I have asked one or two composers to write pieces a little more difficult so that nobody else could play it."

Irvine Arditi's life has been shaped by his relationships with new music & its composers
"Beethoven is a very complicated composer because you cannot typecast him."

Andras Schiff joins Tom Service in the studio, and at the piano.
"Although I love the orchestra, I found that really my heart was with the new music."

Colin Currie is one of today鈥檚 leading percussion soloists.
"I'm always very grateful to find musical collaborators who are able to react...fast and happily to changes in musical thought"

The violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has been at the top of her career for nearly 40 years.
"What one wants is to be faithful to the score and to be emotionally as free as possible."

Pianist Richard Goode is used to playing the world's concert halls. Broadcast 2012
"Even as a performer, doubt, uncertainty is a very moving thing."

Jonathan Biss has just embarked on a project to record Beethoven鈥檚 32 piano sonatas.
"The moment when the Aria starts again is one of the strongest moments one can have as a solo keyboard player."

Tom talks to harpsichordist and pianist Andreas Staier about Bach鈥檚 Goldberg Variations

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