The first transmission in colour of this documentary film which was shot in Iceland, Holland, Belgium and London. The film includes musical performances in Antwerp, Rotterdam and The Hague, filmed on stage during actual public concerts. It also has a rehearsal and recording session in London filmed during Ashkenazy's first recording with Itzhak Perlman and a rehearsal of Stravinsky's four-hand arrangement of the Rite of Spring with Daniel Barenboim in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

An Allegro film

"His personality spills out of the film... Ashkenazy's boyish charm is nicely contrasted with the high musical standards he sets himself and the layer of fatalist melancholy that colours his nature". The Daily Telegraph

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