PRODUKTBESCHREIBUNGEN
To mark the centenary of the celebrated French cellist Paul Tortelier (born 21st March 1914), the BBC drew from their archives a selection of films and documents that spanned his whole career and testified to the exceptional rapport he enjoyed with Britain. The programme 'Paul Tortelier at the BBC' is here reproduced as a DVD and offers a portrait of one of the truly great cellists, an artist of the utmost probity, integrity and sincerity who lived through and witnessed almost an entire musical century. He played under such conductors as Toscanini, Walter, Mitropoulos, Beecham, Boult, Kempe and Richard Strauss and formed a very close friendship with the legendary cellist Pablo Casals. Beecham once said to him early in his career: You are sure to succeed in England because you have got personality, and that's what they like!