Everything to play for at the Tchaikovsky competition

It's the fiercest, sweatiest, most nerve-shredding competition in the classical world. Tom Service reports from MoscowBritish pianist Peter Donohoe is used to being lionised in Moscow. In 1982, Donohoe won the highest prize awarded at the world's most prestigious and controversial classical music talent-show, the Tchaikovsky Competition. Those two words instil sweaty-palmed nervousness and feverish excitement in any musician who's ever competed in Russia, and in anyone who ever watched those gr...

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