From my introduction to tomorrow’s Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, directly after the Proms:
Mahan Esfahani is a breaker of moulds. An Iranian who never went to music school, he flew in the face of modern wisdom and brought the harpsichord back onto the concert stage – not as a baroque ornament but with full-blast symphony orchestras. In doing so, he made some enemies – but he’s not one to pull punches. Amid the controversies, one achievement cannot be denied: Mahan Esfahani has resurrected an arcane instrument from the near-dead…
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