Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — Season 1, Episode 26: The Ninth: Yehudi Menuhin
Documentary • 92 min • 1 season, 27 episodes
Episode synopsis
Interview with Yehudi Menuhin (at his home in Chester Square, London, and at a concert hall). Menuhin talks about the moment that represents the now and moves with us through time, composers who give him solace including Ludwig van Beethoven, especially his Ninth Symphony, the happiest moment in his life, his admiration for the Russian dancer Anna Pavlova and the strong resemblance of his second wife Diana to Pavlova.
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