Sir Charles Mackerras interview with John Amis from 1971. Speaks of his early study and then work in the Sadlers Wells orchestra as an oboe player, the challenges of being a conductor of opera and his time as the Music Director of Sadlers Wells. Also on this recording is an interview with Janos Liebner, a Hungarian musicologist and Barytone player, as well as an interview with Alfred Kalmos - head of Universal Edition publishing later to become Boosey and Hawkes.