Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — Season 1, Episode 5: The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Documentary • 87 min • 1 season, 27 episodes
Episode synopsis
Interview with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor (in the large rehearsal hall of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester in the building of the Sender Freies Berlin on Masurenallee in Berlin). Ashkenzay sits at a piano and talks about beauty, consolation, love and hope. He has chosen a number of pieces of music as examples of beauty and consolation, parts of which he plays at the piano.
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
- 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
- E13John the Myth: Stephen Jay Gould