Andre Previn is now pulling back from the 90-plus concerts he performs a year to concentrate on composing. Why is the self-confessed “conductor who composes” now putting composition at the heart of his musical life? “I am so peripatetic,” he says. “I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime. I like writing, but it’s only in the past 10 years that I’ve written a lot. Now, happily, I’ve got a whole file full of commissions.”