A good amateur has a wonderful place. I think everyone would be mildly embarrassed, but they don't think twice about switching on the hifi at low level and leaving a whole Mozart opera going right through dinner. Hogwood, an Englishman who has had a thriving career in period performance since establishing the Academy of Ancient Music in London in 1973, has lately become aware of the fragility of a career in classical music. They had decided to specialise in opera. This rather more distanced approach to CDs is letting people look at a 50year history, which is better than a history of six months.
People nowadays are terrifically visual.
I find particularly audiences now have grown up expecting something to happen. After all that time, his admiration is undiminished. There is a formula for making cadenzas but the content is different every time. Bob talked about everything and spoke in French and German - he's a polymath. While in Australia, Levin will show audiences the art of extemporising, a normal expectation in Mozart's time but rarely seen now.