George Solti's vastly entertaining autobiography is a cut above most executive musicians' memoirs in its unmalicious frankness. It reads as intimately as if Sir George had just settled down to dinner with you. And his story - in particular that of his youth in Hungary and of wartime isolation in Switzerland while his Jewish family were being wiped out - is unforgettable. Solti writes movingly of the damage to family life caused by a conductor's peripatetic routine Seen through the eyes of the genial 85-year-old Solti, these memoirs speak with an old man's wisdom and humility.
