Vladimir Ashkenazy
The fourth of six programmes in which Chris de Souza introduces some of the great pianist and conductor's many recordings, together with the voices of Ashkenazy and people who work with him.
Today, some of Ashkenazy's rare forays into the music of Debussy, his second recording of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata), Brahms's Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor with Bernard Haitink conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Ashkenazy himself conducting the Philharmonia in the Symphony No 3 by Sibelius, a composer of whom he is particularly fond.