Re Sokolov Jessica, I really hope that you don't answer this question. Just putting a CD into his/her player should answer it for Agn better than any words can. Better still, go to one of his concerts - but you won't be able to do this in the UK. Where is the "Bring Sokolov back to London" Group for me to join, so that my protests about the Government's attitude towards the security threat that he allegedly poses can joined with others'?

In the after math of the opening of Tosca at the Met, some critics have weighed in on the practice of booing at the end of an opera. At opening night at La Scala, the opera director was booed even though Daniel Barenboim defiently accopmanied the director on stage for a curtain call. If I pay the outrageous fortune to attend an opera and have a reasonable knowledge of a particular opera, does that give me the right to reign boos on an artist if I do not care for a particular interpretation, or even if the technical skills are poorly executed? Or instead of booing, should I just decline from applauding? Do you have an opinion?

What makes Grigory Sokolov such a great pianist in you opinion?