Edited and introduced by John Amis

Dinu Lipatti was, by common consent, one of the greatest pianists of this century. He died so young, just 20 years ago, that his reputation is built almost entirely on his gramophone records which are constant best-sellers. Music Now talks to the man who was his friend, mentor and supervisor of all his records - Walter Legge, husband of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, creator of the Philharmonia Orchestra and former EMI recording boss.

Beethoven: How did that 'admirable deaf-man' (Stravinsky's description) survive his bicentenary year? Music Now takes a rather reverent look at him with Hugh Wood, the composer; and a rather irreverent one with excerpts from Maurizio Kagel's film called hudwig Van.