It is exactly thirty years since I gave my first solo recital at the Cheltenham Festival. I have performed many times since then in the Pitville Pump Room, but last Sunday night I had my first experience of giving a concert in the Pillar Room at the Town Hall. It provided a suitably informal setting for an evening of piano love songs, but the hot and steamy atmosphere in the room was maybe something the audience could have done without... Despite the heat, I enjoyed presenti