Composer of the Week: Beethoven: Legacy and Belief with Aakanksha Virkar Yates

Concluding the week of programmes exploring the wider world of change around Beethoven, Donald Macleod and Dr Aakanksha Virkar Yates discuss the composer and belief, the composer's legacy and how much of that was shaped by retrospective romantic impressions of the composer. Beethoven. Symphony No 4 in B flat, Op 60 (III. Menuett). Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conductor Mariss Jansons. Piano Sonata No 28, Op 101 (I. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung). Wilhelm Kempff (piano). Der Glorreiche Augenblick, Op136 (Das Auge schaut). Claire Rutter (soprano), Matilde Wallevik (mezzo), Peter Hoare (tenor), Stephen Gadd (baritone), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Westminster Boys' Choir, Westminster Abbey Choir, City of London Choir, conductor Hilary Davan Wetton. Der Freie Mann, WoO 117, Hermann Prey (baritone), Leonard Hokanson (piano), Heinrich Schutz Kreis, Berlin, conductor Wolfgang Matkowitz. Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op 85 (Chor der Krieger: "Wir haben ihn gesehen"). Maria Stader (soprano), Otto Wiener (bass), Jan Peerce (tenor), Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Vienna Academy Chamber Choir, Vienna Academy Choir, conductor Hermann Scherchen. Mass in C, Op 86 (Sanctus). London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, conductor Colin Davis. String Quartet No 15 (III. Molto Adagio "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" (Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity, in the Lydian Mode). Tetzlaff Quartett