He likes the Festival Hall – unlike many conductors – because he believes that the imaginatively designed boxes break up and reflect the sound. His own arrangement of the orchestra there, as I have experienced, is highly successful from the point of view of good sound. He places the basses at the back, the cellos in front of them, the rest of the strings on the left and the wind on the right. 'I always like to have the wind on my right. The reason for that is so much music is antiphonal between the strings and the wind, and that effect is lost if the winds are placed behind the strings. Besides the winds are delicate instruments, there are fewer of them, and they're apt to get submerged if they sit behind'.
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