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@stevenosborne @habakkuk7 Yes absolutely! The last movement particularly. I was sitting on the platform very close to the keyboard. I remember it like it was yesterday not just over 54 years ago.

@stevenosborne @habakkuk7 I think to some extent it depended on the piece. I heard him play the C minor D958 in Festival hall in 1970 when he was at the height of his powers and it was electrifying.

Interesting view from @billicritic on Marianne Faithfull's stage work. Most of the obits seem to have completely ignored that side of her work.

@StevenIsserlis Thanks for these Steven. Wonderful. I personally have to add Radu's live recording of D934 No1 from 2012. Some of the most beautiful and moving Schubert playing I've ever heard.

@VFleischfresser First time I heard Sviatoslav Richter live - RFH Dec 7th 1970 seated on the stage just a few yds from the keyboard. Closely followed by Alfred Brendel’s final concert Dec 18th 2008 in the Musikverein.

RT @HenryCPorter: Time for British journalists to respond and make their disgust felt. The bus was targeted - that's an attack on all the j…

@nealtaparia Is all this information available as a downloadable article?

@OrpheusL @StevenIsserlis Happy birthday to a great musician. And what a bonus to have the great Radu Lupu performing as well!

@JohnSimpsonNews @BBCSteveR A superb journalist and also a fine musician!

@HenryCPorter Great news Henry and can’t wait to hear you present it next May at @campdenlitfest

@amwilson_opera I remember the great pianist Solomon writing that he got more upset by a good review of one his concerts he had considered below par than a bad review of one where he thought he’d played as well as he could.

@BBCSteveR @BBCSingers @BBCRadio3 Beautiful. Such a haunting and moving melody. I hope you appreciate just how much people admire and value your reporting.

RT @StevenIsserlis: Beethoven born otd 1770! A composer who has truly changed the world, bequeathing us his strength through all adversity,…

@warwickmansell When my son was at school in late ‘80’s he learned to cook in domestic science (including how to skin a rabbit!) now spends his life cooking in his deli. By the time his sister went there in ‘90’s it had become food technology and she spent her time designing a pizza packet!

@LeahBroad One of the greatest Schubert players of this or any age.

@krishgm Totally brilliant interviewer.

@MishalHusain Huge loss to BBC but this sounds like a richly deserved appointment. One of the finest interviewers/presenters currently working in the media.

RT @HenryCPorter: Important to boost this, if you feel able. Carole, fearless as ever, is one of the few people who's speaking freely abou…

@TheRSC Truloy great actor who will be sorely missed.