Vladimir Ashkenazy
As a child, Vladimir Ashkenazy used to spend all his money on concert tickets, indulging his passion for orchestral concerts. He talks to Joan
Bakewell about how, in his early thirties, he started conducting for fun. and about his subsequent associations with major orchestras such as the Cleveland, the Philharmonia, the Concertgebouw, and the Berlin Radio Symphony.
Including excerpts from symphonies by Sibelius and Tchaikovsky.