Better Than It Can Be Played The last of four programmes exploring the musical legacy of pianist Artur Schnabel returns to the music of Beethoven, the composer he was most associated with. Stephen Plaistow talks to some of today's distinguished pianists about Schnabel's recordings of the Waldstein sonata and the Emperor piano concerto, and reports on his occasional excursions into the music of Weber, Schumann and Brahms. He also asks why it was that Schnabel's imagination often seemed to work on a different level from other instrumentalists.
Producers Christine Hardwick and David Papp