My career began in Torquay, in the corner of a hotel dining room. I was a little girl, barely tall enough to reach the keys, but there was a battered old piano sitting there, and I was obsessed. Every

Our pick of the programmes to listen to this Christmas and New Year

RADIO THE PICK OF THIS WEEK’S RADIO

Sun Triptych Maxim Rysanov, Dasol Kim, Roman Mints et al; BBC Concert Orchestra/ Dobrinka Tabakova ECM 4878558 64:61 mins This is the second ECM disc to feature the extremely accessible music of Bulga

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS

ALAMY; RADIO TIMES ARCHIVE SCIENCE FILLING A VOID ...