David Helfgott
It’s almost four years since the film ‘Shine’ made a global star out of this mentally disturbed piano maestro, and it seems that he’s been touring the world ever since. Whether this is a tragic case of exploitation or hard-cash payback for all those years of purgatory is open to debate. Helfgott’s repertoire is sure to contain a few crowd-pleasers from the film, including ‘The Rach’ and, on the evidence of his past visits to Tokyo, you can expect an evening of sublime musical entertainment, punctuated by the occasional odd lapse of concentration.
