Brahms: F major Sonata
The first of six programmes being repeated as a tribute to the great musician who died in 1990attheageof76. "If I cannot make my programmes as interesting to the porter at Speke Airport as to the general music lover then I am not being a good Tortelier," wrote the flamboyant and charismatic French cellist to producer Rodney Greenberg when he first embarked on his
TV masterclasses in 1974. "And he lived up to that claim through all the shows I did with . him," says Greenberg.
(Elgar's Cello Concerto next Saturday)