My Fumagalli Affair
Anyone who attends my piano recitals will know I love discovering music by forgotten, neglected or otherwise lesser-known composers. Recent concerts have featured programmes made up of music by women composers only (yes, there were a lot of them in the nineteenth century, beyond Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn), and collections of pieces by the oft-ridiculed giant of the piano, Friedrich Kalkbrenner. This approach keeps the music on my piano stand fresh, it serves to rem
