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“A couple of Beethoven's friends said that he was a hypochondriac,” says Meredith, “but then when I was going through this list of symptoms ... of his time in his music, Beethoven appears ...

Gerard Willems was the first Australian to record the complete piano music of Beethoven. Hear the complete fifth Piano Concerto, the 'Emperor', recorded here with Sinfonia Australis and Antony Walker.

5 traced a progression “from darkness to light,” he added, while the overture, written for Beethoven’s political prison break opera “Fidelio,” represented the “greatest music about fre ...