Wigmore Hall: Andras Schiff 7 June; Nicolas Namoradze 23 June; Kirill Gerstein 16 July Barbican: Evgeny Kissin 25 June; Ragged School Festival: Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy 20 June Nicolas Namo...Read More
Paul Lewis, Royal Festival Hall, London The British pianist Paul Lewis doesn’t have a wide repertoire, but he focuses on his chosen composers with white-hot intensity. For a while this meant wall-to...Read More
Out, brief candle! As life nears its end, thoughts can acquire urgent clarity. This truth may not be particularly perceptible in literature, because novelists find endless ways of disguising it. But i...Read More