What a beautiful person 🌟

I love him!

I still love you for everything you are Maestro Ashkenazy. (Holland Dec. 2022 ) 🌷🌷🌷spasibo !

Not only a great musician, but also a great thinker with a an intelligent understanding of humanity - or indeed the lack of it.

hear hear!!! 😊 going to the important question on views and statements about the Jews etc... I applaud Vladimir as what he says in the interview around 4:30 - 7:00 is so true about being a artist or genius that you see the positive things in people no matter what race they come from... was surprised kissin said almost opposite statement to Vladimir even though I like kissins playing as much as Vladimir, just shows you there different views... I think Vladimir is clearly highlighting the fact some artist because of there fame and self importance feel they have a right to say things in power whereas Vladimir completely sees the natural truth to humanity.... it's quite plane and simple really " Treat others like you would like to be treated " 😊

That's why I love musician ..."generosity positivity and humanity" Thanks i learn so many understanding from Ashkenazy classical lecture.

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Nah... Liszt never said anything against the Jewish composers in general... He hated just Mendelssohn as a composer but spoke well of him as a man.. Mendelssohn, too, hated Liszt as a composer and called him a "pendulum between scandal and divinity"... Liszt also didn't like Wagner's anti-semitic documents and loved him just for his music.. When asked what he thought about the same, he said, "I am no anti-semite. I respect all decent men". In fact, Schumann did like Mendelssohn's music. that is true. But in a letter to Clara Schumann, he mentioned "Jew is a Jew". So, we can't really judge who was an anti-semite and who was not on the basis of who they were friends with... Edit- I don't suggest that one must know all this stuff... Was just pointing it out...

Surprisingly, the behavior and thinking of those who are prejudiced against particular Religions, Nationalities, genders,races,sexual orientations etc. goes back to the story of Cain and Abel in the bible. Cain's offering to god was rejected while Abel's was accepted. Now, we are talking about sibling rivalry for the acceptance and blessing of the father. What did Cain feel when his offering was rejected? Undervalued, unwanted, abandoned...less than. A loser. No one wants to be the unfavored one...shunned. Cast out. Unloved. What we are talking about is tribalism and how individual members of a group become aggrandized when another member or members of their group gain power and or glory. I was listening to a lovely piece of music on KZfaq by the Czech composer, Antonin Dvorak . A woman from Czechoslovakia commented, “I am proud to be Czech when I hear this." It is the sort of sentiment we encounter often. As Individuals, we can belong to and associate ourselves with a variety of tribes. Yes. tribes. Our nation, our religion, our race, our city, our culture, our gender even our age bracket. The collective fans of a particular sports team can be considered a tribe. If the Boston Red Sox win the World Series, the citizens of that city all celebrate. Why ??? Few, if any, of the Red Sox are Bostonians and many residents of Boston are from other parts of the country. But, they feel that glory has been brought to their tribe ( Boston) and by association, they bask in that glory themselves even though they, individually, did nothing at all glorious. It can work the opposite way, too. If someone of your religion does something shameful, you might share in that shame though you have done nothing wrong. But “one of yours” did. This is Tribalism. And, if you are a citizen of a small country which rarely gets recognized for great achievements, it is very sweet to stand up and declare, ‘this person who everyone adores and praises was one of my little tribe.’ It is a very natural human response . The only negative aspect is that it nurtures the sort of division that comes with tribalism. It separates humanity into exclusive camps. And that can foster the also natural human impulse to see one’s tribe and, by extension oneself, as superior. And thus we get racism, nationalism,religious and political animosity. And those can become irrational and rabid to the point where we lose our ability to see the larger tribe that we ALL belong to. And we then lose our humanity. Antisemitism White Supremacy Homophobia Soccer fanaticism Looking down on women or Hispanics or Asians. Devaluing The Other raises one's own tribe and by extension, oneself up. It is pathetic, really.

RIP Christopher Nupen

It is unfortunate that the interviewer, in an interview which is supposed to be about music, has to bring up anti-Semitism and alleged anti-Semitism. Though mister Ashkenazy does a well job, he was forced into expressing some hollow modern slogans. Mister Ashkenazy , says 'we should be above it', but the interviewer is not above it, he drags the discussion down, mister which leaves it to mister Ashkenazy to try to raise the level. I remember in this respect an interview in The Guardian with a female Jewish pianist, the interviewer also kept harassing the woman with questions about the Nazi's, while she tried to avoid it, in order to get the topic back of her passionate love, music. Such interviewers do not really love music, what they love is how to focus on the faults of others. This is not an interview about music, the original movie from which it was taken was not about music, it is an ideological propaganda movie.

Replace music with cinema and you get an even truer statement

The interviewer is So tedious... All the time insisting and insisting with the same thing... MUSIC IS MUSIC, PLEASE. Nowadays nobody "wants" to be racist. Two centuries ago EVERYONE was racist, more or less (jews included, and still today they are; they can). It was the most normal thing. I am not justifying anything. Just saying how it was the mentality at the time. Please, Stop Cancel Culture. What I expect when I watch an interview to an important musician is talking about Music. I don't care at all the political preferencies of an artist. I am not interested in your political speech/lesson/political correctness, journalist. You ARE BORING. All the time Wagner's antisemitism, Wagner's antisemitism, Wagner's antisemitism... Oh, come on. Who cares that, idiota?? He was an Enormous musician. That's all. Or are you pretending he should be forbidden because of his ideas/opinions???

Ashkenazy looks like a Russian Jeffrey Epstein, though he behaves as well as plays much better.