please keep your distance before colliding with the bouquet. given what you went through, do you find it hard to stomach two a long hangover for it hard to stomach two a long hangoverfor rishi it hard to stomach two a long hangover for rishi sunak, it hard to stomach two a long hangoverfor rishi sunak, the prime minister doesn t even drink. partygate, is it time to move on? that is what we are discussing. and here is the news. mps will debate the privleges committee s report which found borisjohnson deliberately misled parliament over lockdown parties in number 10. the former prime minister resigned as an mp after seeing its conclusions before the report was published last week. it s unclear whether rishi sunak will attend today s debate. labour has confirmed it s to end new north sea oil and gas exploration if it wins the next general election. the party leader sir keir starmer will also announce plans to set up a publicly owned green energy company based in scotland
as an excuse to build new coal mines. he was speaking at a un climate change summit where delegates are seeking ways of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. much of the world is now transitioning from locking down to living with covid 19, and that means that, in cities like london, cultural life is returning, performers are back on stage, audiences can gather to enjoy them. my guest today is the world renowned hungarian conductor and composer, ivan fischer, known for his innovative style. it has been a tough couple of years, so how easy is it to find the magic in music making? ivan fischer, welcome to hardtalk. lovely to be here. it s great to have you here in london. let me ask you how different has it been making music in the time of covid? covid had positive and negative effects on our life. the problem was that there is no audience and actually we make music for people. this is actually easy for musi
world renowned hungarian conductor and composer ivan fischer, known for his innovative style. it has been a tough couple of years, so how easy is it to find the magic in music making? ivan fischer, welcome to hardtalk. lovely to be here. it s great to have you here in london. let me ask you, how different has it been making music in the time of covid? covid had positive and negative effects on our life. the problem was that there is no audience and actually we make music for people. this is actually easy for musicians to forget. some musicians make music to impress other musicians, and we always, i remind them, we play for the audiences, we play for the listeners. and this is what we didn t have. that was terrible. now the good thing is that, actually, it made us realise how badly we need the audiences. i think there is a streaming tiredness in the world now. because for many months after covid hit hungary, hit europe, hit the world, you created a new way of performing in y
bubble. was on her own because of the bubble, she was in her house by herself bubble, she was in her house by herself without my brother. 0n herself without my brother. on christmas herself without my brother. on christmas 2020, there was lockdown, and we christmas 2020, there was lockdown, and we had christmas 2020, there was lockdown, and we had to rush out to the supermarket and buy whatever was left for supermarket and buy whatever was left for christmas dinner suit me and nry left for christmas dinner suit me and my dad has something to eat on that day and my dad has something to eat on that day because we were planning to spend that day because we were planning to spend it that day because we were planning to spend it with my sister in law and her family spend it with my sister in law and her family. we ended up on our house atone her family. we ended up on our house alone without my brother, without my mum: alone without my brother, without my mum, without
the honest answer is i didn t! that i have a brother who is also a conductor, and he always wanted to be a conductor, when he was five, he wanted to be a conductor! i had no idea what i want to become. and later, i visited his class in this music academy in vienna, and there was a wonderful teacher and i thought, maybe i should try too. and then we have a sister who is a psychologist, because, with two conductors, you need one! let me ask you also about something you said once 90% of what a conductor does, you said, i don t even like, there s only about 10% of it that i really enjoy. the music! so. is the 10%! right. so, the 90%, which i guess is about the ritual, the putting on of the dinner suit before the performance,