An extremely rare interview with the grande dame of British pianism, heroine of the Blitz.
She also talks of making false crescendos to mask the noise of flying bombs. ‘When the bomb went away, I made a decrescendo.’
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Mozart: Don Giovanni – Hurn Court Opera (Photo: Patrick Frost, BlackStar Pictures) Mozart: Don Giovanni: Sam Young, Samuel Lom, Lizzie Rydeer, Daniel Gray Bell, Hanna O’Brien, Harrison Chéné-Gration, Tilly Goodwin, William Stevens, dir: Joy Robinson, […]
Two dropped out in the week the competition started. A third, China’s Xiaofu Ju, withdrew ‘for medical reasons’ as the quarter-finalists were about to be announced. The following 17 are still in the running: […]
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