Menuhin Was Playing Bach On

If You're Playing Within Your Capability, What's The Point? If You're Not Pushing Your Own Technique To Its Own Limits With The Risk That It Might Just Crumble At Any Moment, Then You're Not Really Doing Your Job.

I See It As My Job To Try To Keep Bach In The Mainstream And Present His Music With, Rather Than Without, Its Emotional Core.

I Can Think And Play Stuff In Classical Music That Possibly Violinists Who Didn't Have Access To Other Types Of Music Could Never Do. It Means I'm More Flexible Within Classical Music, To Be A Servant To The Composer.

Even If You're Playing Brahms Or A Beethoven Concerto, You've Got To Have A Different Vantage Point, Slightly, Each Time.

Bach Was A Top Harmonist Geezer, Which Is Why The Jazz Cats Love Him.