A Christmas Selection: John Lill
From pub pianist to winner of the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition and a 35-year career: Joan Bakewell talks to John Lill. In today's programme, he talks about his early years. Growing up in east London, he made his concert debut as a nine-year-old and had memorised all of Beethoven's piano music by the time he was 14. The special relationship with Beethoven was to last - his Festival Hall debut came at 18, playing the Emperor Concerto.
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