Death and optimists

Flight, emigration, loneliness — paying tribute to virtuosos, the concert program Salzburg festival does not avoid the sad. Mokrousov Aleksey tells. Photo: SF/Marco Borrelli One heroes of Salzburg do not change decades. The Russian pianistic school became such collective performer long ago. This summer at the last moment because of an illness Kisin Eugenie cancelled a concert, but remained Sokolov Grigory, Arkady Volodos, Levit Igor, Trifonov Daniil. Sometime and they it is reached statistical heights Pollini Maurizio: the 80-year-old pianist acts in Salzburg since 1973...