16:30 - 17:30
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
RADIO 3 PRESENTERS' BEETHOVEN EXPERIENCESRadio 3 presenters from across the network recommend their favourite Beethoven pieces and talk about the associations that his music conjures up for them... Catherine Bott'I discovered the Quartet from Fidelio when I was the same age as Marzelline' Julian Joseph'In jazz, as we'd say, he's a bad cat!' Brian Kay'I can still recall the impact of hearing Eroica for the first time' Isabel Hilton'In the seventies, when I was a student in China, the Chinese government launched an anti Beethoven campaign' Geoffrey Smith'When the real Beethoven experience arrives, it's unforgettable' Ian McMillan'My most memorable 9th Symphony was somewhere in Edinburgh at the Fringe' Andrew McGregor'Beethoven's greatest music should disturb you emotionally at some deep level' Tom Service"...an unresolved tension between the complexities and mundanities of the world and a striving for something beyond our experience..." |
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