This masterclass recounts the trajectory of a supremely gifted violist and turbulent artist, heir to a uniquely Russian tradition of interpretative rigour which is seen passing on to his pupils here. Yuri Bashmet is an explosive mixture of severity and sensitivity which reaches the heights of musica...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Schubert, Franz 1797-1828, Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750, Brahms, Johannes 1833-1897, Britten, Benjamin 1913-1976
Format:	Elektronisch Video
Sprache:	Russian English
Veröffentlicht:	[Place of publication not identified] [publisher not identified] [1991]
Schlagworte:	Alto, Musique d' Alto et piano, Musique d' Trios pour piano Piano trios Viola and piano music Viola music > Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) Webcast Internet videos Vidéos sur Internet
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Zusammenfassung:	This masterclass recounts the trajectory of a supremely gifted violist and turbulent artist, heir to a uniquely Russian tradition of interpretative rigour which is seen passing on to his pupils here. Yuri Bashmet is an explosive mixture of severity and sensitivity which reaches the heights of musical sublimity! Contrary to the well-known image of the Russian genius shut up in a conservatory for prodigies, the young Yuri did not realise he was destined for the rarefied world of classical music. As a teenager he Iearnt his music from the school of Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles, playing the electric guitar with rock bands in the nightclubs of Lvov (Ukraine). In those years which saw the death of Stalinism and the birth of perestroika, he was sure of only one thing : music and he were inseparable. In 1970, not yet twenty years old, he was attracted by classical music. The violin of course, the conservatory; his family weren't against it. He spoke of his intentions to a well-informed friend, who explained that there were too many violinists and he was bound to end up playing the viola. Yuri wasted no time, and at once began practising the latter instrument, whose expressiveness soon began to fascinate him. He dreamt of his viola ... and that's one of the stories told in this fine film by Jacques Deschamps, at once an endearing portrait and a 'private music Iesson' given in Montpellier at our invitation. Filmed here during the summer of 1990, when he was already recognised in the West as one of the violists, Yuri Bashmet was generously welcomed by the city of Montpellier along with his ensemble, the Moscow Soloists, when glasnost enabled him to leave the USSR freely, like other Russian artists and intellectuals at that time. And so here is the flamboyant violist, with hair and soulful glance, in rehearsal with the Moscow Soloists, renamed 'Solistes de Moscou-Montpellier' for the occasion. In this film taken at a prestissimo pace, he works in turn with beginners on the viola and seasoned musicians, some of whom are members of his ensemble. Since music is a family affair, we find in his improvised dacha at Palavas-les-Flots, which looks directly onto the beach. He plays Schubert accompanied by his ten-year old daughter, who bravely takes in his somewhat severe remarks on her performance. His method? Liberty, a flawless technique, and a musicality that shines through every word, every note played as an example ... Pedagogy? He gently bullies his pupils without ever letting them feel any kind of superiority on his part. It is doubtless one of the elements of the Russian sensibility to consider friendship as a mainspring of creation.
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