Lars Vogt: ‘I love playing the piano but I prefer to be alive’

Lars Vogt: ‘I love playing the piano but I prefer to be alive’

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norman lebrecht

August 14, 2022

The German pianist Lars Vogt was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer of the liver in March 2021.

‘I said to the doctors: I love playing the piano but I prefer to be alive,’ he tells Zsolt Bognar in an extraordinary episode of Living the Classical Life. ‘You lose some sensitivity in the tips of the fingers, but it comes back.’

‘I spend a lot of time with doctors, in hospitals, wondering how many months, years, I have to go…’

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