THE LISTENING SERVICE

4.30PM, RADIO 3 HHH

The music writer Tom Service tries to pin down the qualities that make a musician a virtuoso. Does it mean playing faster, with more emotion, or more flashily than other instrumentalists, or do

Lang Lang (4.30pm, Radio 3) other factors come into play? Tom listens to the great pianist Lang Lang, and hears folk tales of musicians who sold their soul to the Devil to become virtuosi.