The Worlds Greatest Musical Prodigies - s01e01 (8th June 2009) PDTV (XviD)

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The World's Greatest Musical Prodigies

Monday 8 June 2009
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Channel 4

1/3

There are extraordinary stories here of brilliant young soloists and the demands their talents
place on them (and their families), but it's not enough to film the children: television must make
them compete.

So the programme takes on the lines of a talent show, as precocious 16-year-old composer
Alex Prior auditions the young players to decide which of them would suit a concerto he is
planning to write. Those whom Alex favours will come to London to perform at the premiere.

The trouble is, the whole "prodigy" label is unsettling. The young cellists and violinists we meet
are brilliantly gifted for their ages (mostly about 12), but few will grow up to be great virtuosi.
Many child stars, as an expert here observes, arrive in their 20s as good but not great players,
their early promise lost to adolescence.

Which makes the business of parading them as freakishly talented children uncomfortable,
even if watching them play is often, in the brief snatches we see here, magical.



Filesize........ : 399.83 MB (409,424 KB) (419,250,176 bytes)
Runtime....... : 0:48:16.12 (72,403 frames)
Video Codec : XviD 1.2.1
Video Bitrate : 956 kb/s
frame size... : 624x352 (1.77:1)
Audio Codec : MP3 (LAME 3.98.2)
Audio Bitrate : 192 kb/s CBR
Sample Rate : 48 kHz, joint stereo

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