Catherine Bott is a singer and broadcaster and co-presents The Early Music Show

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Catherine Bott's favourite Beethoven pieces

Choral Fantasia
'I remember studying this at the Guildhall School, with that piano solo and the joyous choral writing, so much more appealing than the Ode to Joy'

Quartet from Fidelio
'I discovered the emotional perfection of this Quartet when I was about the same age as the love-struck teenager Marzelline, and I remember actually singing it in a local concert - first love in the Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa'!

String Quartet Opus 18 no. 1
'This was an A-level set work - full of tenderness'

The Early Quartets
'People who say "ah, the late quartets" - I wonder if they've bothered with the early ones?'

The Waldstein Sonata

The Pastoral Symphony
'As revealed in the film Fantasia when I was 5. Still my favourite bit.'