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Great pianist who was self-taught from the age ...

Alfred Brendel Born 1931 Pianist and writer In what was billed as an ‘illustrated lecture’, the pianist engaged, enlightened and entertained, moving between lectern and keyboard to share his indomitab

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‘I’ve never been a particularly esoteric person,’ Nicola Benedetti tells me as we sit down to talk following the press launch of her third Edinburgh Festival. And yet, as she explains the theme of thi

A narrow suburban road, framed on one side by a row of modestly proportioned terraced houses, and on the other by a railway line where trains trundled regularly to and from West Croydon Station. Puffs

● ONE MORNING IN 2007 I KNOCKED at ...