Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Internationally celebrated conductor and musical director of the Royal Opera House Cotton Garden.
On the island
Eight records
there are some nostalgic reminiscence I have to dispense
String Quintet in G minor, K. 516 - First movement
I adore this piece simply.
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 - First movement
First I love the work very much and I think he is rather marvelous.
Symphony No. 10 - First movement
Philadelphia Orchestra (conducted by Eugene Ormandy)
I was shattered. I think it's a marvellous piece of music.
May contracambio Strano Inguncio
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:39Could you endure prolonged solitude?
No, I couldn't. I would hate it. I really would hate it. For many reasons. Of course, but mainly because I like people around me all the time.
Presenter asks
1:06If given the alternative, would you rather have scores than records?
I would have scores always. Much out.
Presenter asks
4:57Where were you born?
I was born in Budapest. Don't ask me when. Very long time.
Presenter asks
15:58What sort of liaison do you keep up with, Saddler's Wells?
A very good one.
The keepsakes
No book or luxury recorded for this episode.
Presenter asks
How well could you look after yourself on this desert island?
Oh, I'm absolutely impossible. I never learned anything. I can't make even tea. I I can't do anything. I would die in Desert Island very soon, the short time. So therefore this whole programme of course doesn't make sense. But I would never listen to the records. I would die sheer physical exhaustion, the shortest Possible time. No shelter? No shelter. I couldn't make anything. No food? No food. I always learn in my two hands to playing piano or conducting. That's all that I can. Very little. I can see that.
“I would hate it. I really would hate it.”
“It was the eleventh of march, nineteen hundred and thirty eight. It was the evening when Hitler crossed the Austrian frontier from Bavaria coming and went marching to Vienna.”
“Don't forget an opera house is not a democratic institution.”
“I was shattered. I think it's a marvellous piece of music.”
“I always learn in my two hands to playing piano or conducting. That's all that I can.”