Long Players: Writers on Albums That Shaped Them # 16 Sarah Perry - Rachmaninov's Piano Concertos No 2 & 4 perfomed by Sequeira Costa

' One morning  - I think I was about thirteen , which is exactly the age of sentiment and yearning when you ought, ideally to first encounter Rachmaninov - I was coming down the stairs , and as I reached the landing the opening chords rang out through the house. I was so thunderstruck I sat on the stairs to listen, and by the end of the first movement I was in tears.'