He sang with perfect pitch and had just played at his third piano recital.

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As a young woman, she insisted, Phyllis Driver had wanted a family and had no thoughts about performing anything but a piano recital.

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You'd be forgiven for thinking you'd wandered into the wrong venue and taken your seat for a classical piano recital - all that stands before us is a plain stage and a grand piano.

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So he invariably asked to have a second piano onstage, because midway through a recital Liszt's powerful playing would result in broken strings and an instrument that was hopelessly out of tune and quite unplayable.

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Alfred Brendel, an Austrian pianist, received great acclaim for his recital on the opening night and again, three days later, when he played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5 to a packed house.

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