EL: The best way I can describe it is that it was a journey. I had a really interesting experience after the category final – I was practising the concerto and it wasn't going well, as there are so many difficult passages. I thought, how on earth am I going to get this ready? That night, I had a really vivid dream, which felt like it lasted two months. My dreams have always been really vivid, to the point where when I was four, I couldn't tell the difference between reality and dreamland. To cut a long story short, in the dream I was practising the concerto long into the night, doing about 10 hours of technical work a day.
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