Ruth Slenczynsk [Source: BBC]
Former child prodigy Ruth Slenczynska is to release a new album at the age of 97, after signing a deal with the Decca record label.
The pianist, who gave her first recital aged four, recorded My Life In Music last year, featuring music by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Frederic Chopin.
She called the project “unbelievable”, adding: “Whoever heard of a pianist my age making another album?”
Slenczynska turns 97 on Saturday, and her album is due on 18 March.
She has been performing since the 1920s, when she was heralded one of the greatest child prodigies since Mozart.
Her concerts were “an electrifying experience,” wrote the New York Times after one early concert, “something nature has produced in one of her most bounteous moods”.
