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The Early Music Show

10 July 2004

Saturday 10 July 2004 13:00-14:00 (Radio 3)

In today's programme Lucie Skeaping charts the development of the forte piano-piano during Beethoven's life-time - a period when the instrument went through some of its biggest changes. What did the "piano" mean to the composer between 1770 and 1827?

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor Op.13 "Pathetique" 1st Mvt
Richard Goode
Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79328-2

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.2 in f minor (1783) Wo047/2 "Kurfursten"
Malcolm Bilson
CLAVES 50-9707

Joseph Haydn "The Mermaid's Song"
Soprano Adrienne Csengery
fortepiano Malcolm Bilson
HCD 12374-2

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.1 in f minor 1st Mvt (1795) Op2/1
Malcolm Bilson
CLAVES 50-9707/A

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.9 in E Major 2nd Mvt Op 14/1
Bart van Oort
CLAVES/C

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor "Moonlight" 1st Mvt Op27/2
Malcolm Bilson
CLAVES 50-9707/D

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.17 in D minor "Tempest" 1st Mvt Op31/2
Malcom Bilson
CLAVES 50-9707/E

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.21 in C Major Op53 "Waldstein" 3rd Mvt
Bart van Oort
CLAVES 50-9707/F

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat Major Op 110 3rd mvt
David Breitman
CLAVES 50-9707/I




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