I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.

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• Charles Hazlewood:

  All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and

• Charles Hazlewood:

  I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too

• Charles Hazlewood:

  People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their in

• Charles Hazlewood:

  The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an ide

• Charles Hazlewood:

  Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and

• Charles Hazlewood:

  I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyeli

• Charles Hazlewood:

  I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly News

• Charles Hazlewood:

  The rest of my family are obsessed by 'The X Factor:' I'm intrigued by it, although its musical val

• Charles Hazlewood:

  I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'scr

• Charles Hazlewood:

  Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.