Pianist Alfred Brendel is allowing his Proms concert this summer to be broadcast. “This will be the last time that a Brendel performance will be heard in a simultaneous relay. ‘I stopped live broadcasting two years ago but it was not trumpeted out. Microphones make me nervous. I have had microphones on stage at the Festival Hall for many years during my recitals, but the concerts were recorded, not broadcast live. There are quite a few of my colleagues who never do these things, even younger ones, so it’s a matter of feeling that I have now reached a certain age and I can do without the radio’.”