Life and Works: Ludwig van Beethoven

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Childhood and Youth
  0:22
• 2
  Symphony No. 7 in A (finale)
  5:11
• 3
  Hammerklavier Sonata, op. 106 (exc.)
  4:31
• 4
  Beethoven as a pianist
  4:24
• 5
  Sonata in C, op. 2 No. 3 (finale)
  4:58
• 6
  Beethoven as Pianist
  4:25
• 7
  German Dance, WoO 8, No. 4
  6:24
• 8
  Beethoven's Vienna
  7:50
• 9
  Sextet in E flat, op. 81b (first movement)
  2:13
• 10
  Beethoven as Friend, Pupil and Artist
  7:41
• 11
  Trio in C Minor, op. 1 no. 1 (finale)
  7:14
• 12
  Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat (finale)
  5:59
• 13
  The Onset of Deafness
  3:29
• 14
  Appassionata Sonata (finale)
  8:10
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  The Crest of the Wave
  0:38
• 2
  Septet in B flat (Scherzo)
  6:53
• 3
  Sonata Pathétique, op. 13 (Exc.)
  3:18
• 4
  Beethoven in Love
  3:37
• 5
  Piano Sonata in C-Sharp Minor, op. 27, no. 2 (exc.)
  1:24
• 6
  A Winning Streak
  1:11
• 7
  Symphony no. 2 in D, finale (exc.)
  3:04
• 8
  Beethoven in Crisis: the Heiligenstadt Testament
  5:24
• 9
  Eroica Symphony: Funeral March (exc.)
  3:55
• 10
  Beethoven and Heroism
  6:24
• 11
  Eroica Symphony, finale (exc.)
  1:52
• 12
  Beethoven the Revolutionary
  2:54
• 13
  Razumovsky Quartet No. 1 pp.59 no. 1, Adagio (exc.)
  3:58
• 14
  Beethoven and Women
  8:15
• 15
  Violin Concerto in D, op. 61, First movement (exc.)
  6:24
• 16
  Beethoven the Performer
  6:56
• 17
  Emperor Concerto, finale (complete)
  10:00
• Digital Media 3
• 1
  Beethoven and Suffering
  0:56
• 2
  Coriolan Overture
  8:24
• 3
  Beethoven and Fate
  3:59
• 4
  Fifth Symphony, first movement (complete)
  7:30
• 5
  Fifth Symphony, finale (exc.)
  4:27
• 6
  Beethoven and the Transcendence of Suffering
  2:17
• 7
  Seventh Symphony, first movement (exc.)
  4:16
• 8
  Beethoven, Goethe and Self-pity
  2:59
• 9
  Beethoven on his Method of Composing
  1:57
• 10
  Beethoven and Unrequited Love
  3:11
• 11
  Serioso Quartet, op. 95. first movement
  4:52
• 12
  The Immortal Beloved
  7:59
• 13
  Violin Sonata in G, op. 96, first movement
  10:03
• 14
  To the Brink of Suicide-and beyond
  3:00
• 15
  Battle Symphone (exc.)
  2:54
• 16
  Prisoner's Chorus from Fidelio
  7:12
• Digital Media 4
• 1
  Archduke Trio
  4:07
• 2
  Beethoven 'kidnaps' Karl
  8:48
• 3
  Beethoven's Manner & Appearance
  3:16
• 4
  Pastoral symphony (exc.)
  2:55
• 5
  Beethoven as a ' parent '
  17:22
• 6
  Piano sonata No. 32, Op. 111
  4:50
• 7
  Beethoven and Friendship
  4:27
• 8
  His attitudes to Publication
  1:10
• 9
  Beethoven as Conductor
  1:21
• 10
  Ninth symphony (Scherzo) (exc.)
  3:53
• 11
  His Final Works
  1:53
• 12
  String Quartet in B flat, Op. 130 ('Cavatina')
  7:06
• 13
  Beethoven's Death
  5:29
• 14
  Music 6: Ninth Symphony (exc.)
  4:01

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Release credits

• Alan Smyth
  engineer
• Bob Peck
  spoken vocals
• David Timson
  spoken vocals
• Elaine Claxton
  spoken vocals
• Hugh Griffith
  editor
• Jeremy Siepmann
  producer
• Karen Archer
  spoken vocals
• Michael Taylor
  editor, engineer
• Neville Jason
  spoken vocals
• Simon Weir
  editor
• Sue Norman
  design

Issues

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  Life and Works: Ludwig van Beethoven

  4x CD
  March 2001
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  Life and Works: Beethoven

  4x Digital Media
  16 July 2001