Janos Starker
In 1931 Janos Starker entered the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest as a prodigiously gifted six-year-old cellist, and by the time he was nine, he already had several students. The die was cast. For most of his extraordinary, seven-decade-long career, Starker has not only been one of the century's great cellists but also one of its foremost teachers.
In the first of three programmes, LSO principal cellist Moray Welsh talks to Starker and his contemporaries about those formative years at the academy.
Starker's choice of music includes works by his teacher's teacher,
Popper, and academy professors Weiner, Kodaly and Bartok. Producer David Papp