This is the only piece he writes in 1820. He knows he's sick with the illness that's going to end up killing him. And this is like... It's like reading his diary. This is what he writes. I'm going to play you the opening as he wrote it. After about 40 seconds, there's an A, a single note and he repeats it like 28 times. That's the first three bars. Within those three bars is almost all the thematic material from the first movement, parts of the second movement, and almost all the theyatic material of the last movement,. condensed.
Intelligence Squared has been producing agenda-setting events for over a decade. During the holiday season we're looking back over that extensive archive to pick out some of our favourite and most enlightening listens. For this episode we revisit 2018 and our event with James Rhodes and Armando Iannucci reflecting on the Transformative Power of Music. The chair was broadcaster, author and leading voice on all things musical, Clemency Burton-Hill.
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