Live from the City Hall, Sheffield. Lars Vogt
(piano), BBC Philharmonic conductor Heinz Wallberg Rossini Overture: William
Tell
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
8.20 Beethoven in Heiligenstadt
In the company of Otto Biba, Chief Librarian of the Viennese Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Piers Burton-Page visits the house in Heiligenstadt near Vienna, where Beethoven spent the summer of 1802 in a vain attempt to cure his deafness, and where - still only in his early thirties - he penned his will.
8.40 Beethoven
Symphony No 5 in C minor