Maestro and Schiff

Like Henrietta, I too have been glued to Maestro.

I'm the first in the queue when it comes to BBC bashing so credit where it's due. Maestro was a good idea, and was - reasonably - well done. But it could and should have been done so much better. The films of the contestants' lessons were perfunctory. They should have been the fulcrum of the programme. If it comes back next year, that should change.

(Not that I hold any hope it will. The Young Musician of the Year coverage showed how any suggestion of seriousness or education, or even of more than a two minute attention span, is viewed as out of the question in the BBC these days. As for the Saturday Proms coverage: cringe makingly, toe curlingly embarrassing.)