pianists

‘Some pianists make me shake with anger’: Vikingur Olafsson interviewed

5 October 2024 9:00 am

At the BBC Proms this year, an Icelandic pianist dressed like a Wall Street broker played a slow movement from…

The dazzling, devious, doomed sound of James Booker

10 October 2020 9:00 am

Dr John called James Booker ‘the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced’. Booker died…

Why Daniel Barenboim should be the next head of the Berlin Phil

18 April 2015 9:00 am

Daniel Barenboim is back in town: the South Bank is mounting a ‘Barenboim Project 2015’ in which he’s playing the…