{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Beethoven Unleashed: At the Keyboard","description":"Pianist Jonathan Biss shares the wonder of Beethoven's piano sonatas with Donald Macleod. \n\nRecorded at the piano, in the Angela Burgess Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Jonathan shares his life-long passion for Beethoven with Donald. As they talk, he demonstrates how and why Beethoven's piano sonatas advanced the genre far beyond anything that anyone had ever achieved previously. As they talk we will gain a performer's perspective of Beethoven's developmental trajectory. \n\nComposer of the Week will be returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020. Part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.\n\nMusic featured:\n\nPiano Sonata No 2 in A major, Op 2 No 2 \nSonata No 4 in E flat major, Op 7 (Grande sonate) \nPiano Concerto No 2 in B flat major\nPiano sonata No 15 in D, Op 28 (Pastorale) \nPiano Sonata No 17 in D minor, Op 31 No 2 (The Tempest) \nPiano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata)\nPiano Sonata No 21 in C major, Op 53 (Waldstein)\nPiano Sonata No 30 in E major, Op 109 (excerpt)\nPiano Sonata No 31 in A flat major, Op 110\nPiano Sonata No 5 in C minor, Op 10 no 1\nPiano Sonata No 12 in A flat major, Op 26 \nPiano Sonata No 17 in D minor, Op 31 No 2 (The Tempest) \nPiano Sonata “quasi una fantasia”, Op 27 (Moonlight) \nPiano Sonata No 20 in G major, Op 49 No 2\nPiano Sonata No 3 in C major, Op 2 \nPiano Sonata No 27 in E minor, Op 90 \nPiano Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111 \n\nPresented by Donald Macleod\nProduced by Johannah Smith for BBC Wales\n\nFor full tracklistings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Beethoven Unleashed: At the Keyboard \nhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h02g \n\nAnd you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z","author_name":"BBC Radio 3"}