Except for recordings made by famous tenors, the emphasis in classical recording has for the most part recently been on the work, and even more on the composer-the performer being spotlighted as the composer's most accomplished representative.

A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.

I could never find out anything about Liszt's teaching methods from Rosenthal, except that it was difficult to persuade Liszt to leave the cafe and go back to the studio for a lesson.

With the Beethoven sonata project, the emphasis was principally on the music, although Schnabel was considered its greatest exponent.

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

I was fairly poor
but most of my money went
for wine and
classical music.
I loved to mix the two
together.