Major-minor tonality already existed at the time madrigals were being written, but it was nowhere near so well established as during the Baroque. I have always, ever since I was a child, had a strange need to discover new things, to look upon something which no one else has ever seen before. I had an enviable childhood. I grew up with gypsies, horsemen, soldiers, Karelian evacuees, Russian prisoners of war, middle-class ladies, peddlers and folk musicians. My childhood was coloured by a mixture of security and horrifying yet tantalising freedom.
Experience brings freedom, but only with responsibility, of course.
And if at any time I have had a slightly different view of, say, tempos, your view has always proved to be right in the end. I've been a pianist and a teacher for so long that I feel quite at home with the great historical and piano literature. So I maybe have a clear view of the tradition on which a new composition rests. Composers do not, I have noticed, always like this. They would prefer to be phenomena in their own right.