Hello I'm Krestey Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1988 and the presenter was Sue prodigy. By the age of 12 he was performing

Beethoven's third piano concerto. His career took off internationally six years ago

when he won the joint silver medal in the International Chikovsky

competition in Moscow.

That made him a superstar in Russia.

Today he performs on all the world's major concert platforms.

He's one of our most gifted and intelligent musicians.

He is Peter Donahoe.

Peter, does the word prodigy make you squirm,

or do you confess that's exactly what you were? Well, I would love to know what the word is. you musicians were able at a very early age to play some of the things that we work

towards now. The work that I played at the age of 12 in public which was the Beethoven

third concerto I now find it a very difficult piece at the age of 35

whereas at that time it seemed really quite easy.

In other words I hadn't learned the difficulties.

But would you say that you were born to play the piano that it was something in you that you were born with.

Yes, yes I would.

I think if one tries to analyze that it's something to do with, first of all, a musical ear,

and the other things because physical

coordination and I must say I'm very lucky with that and the love of the

music we mustn't forget about I mean but I think a lot of people who who only listen to music share that love

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