Despite a predilection for jellybeans, even a piano genius and expert on Liszt can forget his trousers!

1. Three pieces of music you love:
Beethoven’s Fidelio
Glazunov’s The King of the Jews
Liszt’s Christus

2. Three piano heroes:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Percy Grainger
Sviatoslav Richter

3. Which actor would you most like to see play a composer or pianist (and who)?
Colin Firth/Tchaikovsky

4. Three most underrated composers:
Roger Quilter
Carl Nielsen
Vassily Kalinnikov

5. Three favourite recordings:
Liszt’s A Faust Symphony [Beecham]
Grieg’s Sonata No 3 for Violin and Piano [Kreisler/Rakhmaninov]
Trenet’s La mer [Trenet]

6. Three pieces of music you could happily never hear (or play) again:
Brahms’ Paganini Variations
Chopin’s Ballade No 1
Any Bach harpsichord music played on the piano

7. Your most memorable musical experience in an audience:
Being at the Wigmore Hall for Mieczeslav Horszowski’s 95th birthday recital.

8. Three favourite films:
The Big Sleep
It’s a Gift
Lawrence of Arabia

9. Three favourite books:
Dickens: Bleak House