“I don’t want to do name-dropping,” the violinist Gidon Kremer frets, but, honestly, I do want him to do name-dropping because, as I soon realise, the Kremer Rolodex takes in more than half a century of cultural titans. There is Martha Argerich, the pianist with whom the Latvian-born violinist recorded all the Beethoven sonatas.... read full story
"I don't want to do name-dropping,"