http://watchification.com Sun, 31 May 2009 21:50:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://watchification.com/2008/10/18/vladimir-ashkenazy-the-vital-juices-are-russian/ http://watchification.com/2008/10/18/vladimir-ashkenazy-the-vital-juices-are-russian/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:07:19 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://watchification.com/?p=171 No question about it: the best programme classified ‘music’ on iPlayer at the moment: a lovely 1968 documentary about pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy. The young Ashkenazy’s evidently not your stereotypical classical soloist: not wild-eyed, tempestuous or mercurial and not an egomaniac, despite his international fame. He’s modest, curious, humane, passionate. The kind of person you’d like to meet and get to know. There are many spine-tingling moments in the programme: not least a rehearsal for Stravinsky’s arrangement for four hands of his Rite of Spring with Daniel Barenboim at the (brand new) Queen Elizabeth Hall. Inspiring.

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