»It was good that I never became a sensation,« Rudolf Buchbinder recently confessed in an interview about the secret of his extraordinary career. And from the career of which he dreams, may it continue »with a small, constant crescendo«. A thoroughly realistic hope – one only needs to look at the Austrian pianist’s concert calendar: whether invited by orchestras in Boston or Tokyo, as a chamber musician at his own festival in Grafenegg or as a guest soloist in the great concert halls from London to Vienna – the specialist for classical-romantic repertoire is more in demand than ever. read less