The violinist, conductor and composer reflects on 25 years with Australia’s leading chamber orchestra – and why the best music leaves us speechless
The most trouble Richard Tognetti ever got into was for doing nothing.
It was 2011 and Slovenia’s Maribor festival, where Tognetti is artistic director, had been forced to cancel a rather grand staging of The Magic Flute at short notice due to lack of funds. Tognetti was given three days to come up with a filler, and duly called the board with his suggestion: nothing. Or a musical exploration of it.
I’m not saying the early music movement is always right. But it's exciting
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Nostalgia comes like a sort of cut. It doesn’t hurt and all of a sudden you feel the pain and out of that comes beauty
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