The big day is next Sunday. He tells Fiona Maddocks: ‘It’s a total cliche to say music keeps you young. I still feel like a teenager, though my knees may have a different opinion. I […]
The venerated pianist, playing the first Shostakovich concerto last night in Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic, asked the conductor Lahav Shani to announce that she was playing the encore for Alon Ohel, a prisoner […]
A Vice-President of the European Parliament, Pina Picierno, has issued a protest over a planned concert by the Putin-ally conductor at a forthcoming festival in Campana. It turns out that the concert, first reported on […]