The remarkable biography of the Chinese pianist Zhu Xiao‐Mei, from the re‐education camps of the Chinese Cultural Revolution to Paris and her subsequent international career, gives her a unique position in the world of music. She is today one of the most significant interpreters of Bach’s music. In Leipzig, where Bach held his final professional position and composed The Art of Fugue, Zhu Xiao‐Mei recorded this contrapuntal masterpiece, which is for her “the absolute zenith of polyphonic art.”
