Van de Schoonheid en de Troost

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.

All Episodes - Season 1

Episode 1

Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka

Episode 2

Homecoming: Roger Scruton

Episode 3

Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall

Episode 4

The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner

Episode 5

The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy

Episode 6

Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg

Episode 7

Guilt: Martha Nussbaum

Episode 8

You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel

Episode 9

The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten

Episode 10

Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus

Episode 11

When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland

Episode 12

What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch

Episode 13

John the Myth: Stephen Jay Gould

Episode 14

The Poetics of the Album: Dubravka Ugrešić

Episode 15

Ugly Ears: Simon Schama

Episode 16

True Love Gives Trust: Catherine Bott

Episode 17

Innocence?: John M. Coetzee

Episode 18

The Unanswered Question: Richard Dufallo

Episode 19

After the Death of Sophia Loren?: Leon Lederman

Episode 20

Greetings from Medemblik: Rudi Fuchs

Episode 21

Don't Look Back: Tatjana Tolstaja

Episode 22

Freeman Dyson

Episode 23

Other States of Consciousness: Richard Rorty

Episode 24

Scoundrel: Györgi Konrád

Episode 25

Three Times Australia: Germaine Greer

Episode 26

The Ninth: Yehudi Menuhin

Episode 27

The Gathering