Looking back at my year, three summits stand out as unique and unrepeatable.
1 The return of Murray Perahia on Neville Marriner’s 100th birthday, at the Wigmore Hall, London.
2 La voix humaine and Erwartung at the Teatro Real Madrid – a stunning realisation of two monodramas.
3 Michael Tilson Thomas miraculously conducting Mahler’s Resurrection.
So what were yours?
(If we get enough responses, we might make a chart).
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