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Composer of the Week: Beethoven

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5: Heiligenstadt Beethoven first refers to difficulties with his hearing in 1801. Ayear later, hopeful of recovery, he took himself off for six months to Heiligenstadt, a dozen miles from
Vienna. While he was there he wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament, in which he described his innermost 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)

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Piano:
Leonard Hokanson
Soprano:
Jessye Norman
Piano:
James Levine
Source: Radio Times

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