Artist In Focus: Vladimir Ashkenazy
A week of programmes celebrating the 65th birthday of Russian pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. Humphrey Burton plays some archive material from the 1960s of Ashkenazy performing and talking about the piano music of Scriabin, and talks to him about his more recent performing relationship with the soprano Barbara Bonney.
Scriabin Study, Op 2 No 1; Prelude, Op 16 No 1; Sonata No 5 (excerpt)
Slbellus Astray; The Diamond on the March Snow; Sigh, Sedges, Sigh; The Maiden's Tryst
With Barbara Bonney (soprano)
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor Philharmonia conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy