Private music lessons: twelve hugely influential programmes broadcast by French television between 1987 and 1991. The guiding principle for Olivier Bernager and François Manceaux was to capture the art of the leading performers of our time, live in concert but also and above all in a teaching environment. This film recounts the trajectory of a supremely gifted violist and turbulent artist, heir to a uniquely Russian tradition of interpretative rigour which he is seen passing on to his pupils here. Yuri Bashmet: an explosive mixture of severity and sensitivity which reaches the heights of musical sublimity!

Andrei Gridchuk - Viola

Claire Bobij - Viola

Danilo Rossi - Viola

Yuri Bashmet - Viola

Yuri Bashmet - Conductor

Boris Baraz - Cello

Mikhail Muntian - Piano

Mikhail Muntian - Piano

1. Sonate Arpeggione - Franz Schubert [1797-1828] - 7:00

2. Sonate BWV 1001 - Johann Sebastian Bach [1685-1750] - 5:50

3. Sonate op. 120 - Johannes Brahms [1833-1897] - 10:05

4. Lachrymae - Benjamin Britten [1913-1976] - 9:25

5. Der Tod und das Mädchen D. 810 - Franz Schubert [1797-1828], Gustav Mahler [1860-1911] - 13:55

6. Trio no 5 op. 114 - Johannes Brahms [1833-1897] - 3:40