Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — Season 1, Episode 16: True Love Gives Trust: Catherine Bott
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 27 episodes
Episode synopsis
Interview with Catherine Bott, British soprano and interpreter of medieval songs and operas (in the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam). Bott talks about the acoustics of the Main Hall, the comforting power of music, her grandparents and parents, her childhood and school days, her health and hospitalization as a child, the Beatles, shyness, dialects, speech lessons, happiness, domestic life, reading, children's books, innocence, her partner/relationship, the musicality of the voice, the Salzburg Festival, pianist Radu Lupu, English 19th century songs, the funeral of a neighbor, and comfort and security.
About Van de Schoonheid en de Troost
To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka
- E2Homecoming: Roger Scruton
- E3Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall
- E4The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner
- E5The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy
- E6Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg
- E7Guilt: Martha Nussbaum
- E8You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel
- E9The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten
- E10Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus
- E11When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland
- E12What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch