1822
Donald Macleod explores key music and events in Beethoven's life from 1822, when the composer was becoming ever more reclusive and behaving ever more strangely.
By 1822, Beethoven was becoming ever more reclusive and his behaviour increasingly strange. After an unproductive few years, thanks to a long drawn out guardianship battle over his nephew Carl, he'd finally found his feet again. His last piano sonata dates from that year as does the Handelian overture The Consecration of the House. But his greatest project, which took some five years to complete, was the Missa Solemnis, his largest choral work and for Beethoven, the supreme challenge of his life. Donald Macleod explores key music and events of Beethoven's year.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelles Op.119 No 7
Performer: Alfred Brendel (piano)
- Philips 456 031-2.
- 16.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelles Op.119 No 8
Performer: Alfred Brendel (piano)
- Philips 456 031-2.
- 16.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Consecration of the House
Performer: Hanover Band, Roy Goodman (director)
- Nimbus NI5205.
- 8.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata no.32 in C Minor, op.111 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Alfred Brendel (piano)
- Philips 446 701-2.
- 9.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa Solemnis: Agnus Dei
Performer: Eva Mei (soprano), Marjana Lipovsek (alto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Robert Holl (bass), Arnold Schoenberg Choir, The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director)
- Teldec 9031-74884-2.
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- Fri 14 May 201012:00BBC Radio 3
- Fri 14 May 201022:00BBC Radio 3
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