We have donated the ticket costs and cancelled our travel, and all that is left is for us to play some of the late bagatelles on our piano that desperately needs a socially distanced tuning, or to scroll through an overtaxed youtube to get our fix of this titan, the man who changed sonata form forever and transformed the symphony into an expression of indefatigable human triumph. One of the most bitter casualties of the Great Virus of 2020, Beethoven lost out on all of his 250th birthday celebrations worldwide. Welcome to the 81st work in the Slipped Disc/Idagio Beethoven Editionīefore we come down to the final selection, pianist Lori Kaufman in Chicago has sent us these thoughts of pressing relevance:
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