Sunday Feature: Vladimir Ashkenazy on Ansel Adams - The Print and the Performance

Celebrated conductor and musician Vladimir Ashkenazy travels to the California home of celebrated photographer Ansel Adams to reveal how classical music inspired and informed his friend's art. Meeting the photographer's friends, family and former colleagues, Ashkenazy hears how Adams effectively 'composed' his images, drawing on his musical background when developing his prints. Vladimir gains an insight into Adams's creative processes and the extent to which his photography was driven by music. Instead of using a clock in his darkroom, he employed a metronome to precisely time his processing. With previously unbroadcast recordings of Adams at the keyboard - playing work by his favourite composers - underscoring the way his pictures fused his two creative passions