In a talk to a Prague audience in the land of his birth, the late pianist plucks a few snippets from an elusive autobiography. ‘Towards the end of the war,’ he relates without expression, ‘there was an xtended gap in my piano playing, because there was no piano.’
Brendel died today, aged 94.
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