5: Heiligenstadt. Beethoven first referred to difficulties with his hearing in 1801. A year later, hopeful of recovery, he went for six months to Heiligenstadt. While he was there he wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament, in which he described his despair.
Abendlied unterm Gestirnten Himmel Hermann Prey (baritone),
Leonard Hokanson (piano)
String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Rasumovsky)Vegh Quartet
Six Songs, Op 48 Jessye Norman
(soprano), James Levine (piano)