“Imagine playing the piano on the Moon,” says Yuja Wang, grinning. The 37-year-old concert pianist mimes a slow-­motion bounce from thumb to little finger and laughs. I’m mesmerised by her small, ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Los Angeles, the city in which Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) spent the last few months of his life, played host to an exceptional festival of music last February. A formidably talented pianist ...