When Murray Perahia injured his finger in 1990, the great pianist sought solace in Bach. We meet him as he prepares at last to return to the Romantic repertoire. Plus pianist Olli Mustonen goes shopping for Steinways
Shostakovich: The Nose Mariinsky Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus/Valery Gergiev
‘Shostakovich was never so obviously the youthful genius as in this brilliant operatic jape’