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What happens when one of history's greatest composers begins to lose the very sense he relies on most? In this episode, we explore how Ludwig van Beethoven continued to create groundbreaking music even as his world fell into silence. Along the way, we uncover the myths, inventions, and raw determination that fueled Beethoven's defiant creativity, and hear how his lifelong struggles are reflected in his music. Featuring musicologist Laura Tunbridge, author of Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces. Enter the “Sound Off” Story Contest at ⁠20k.org/soundoff⁠. Submissions close on May 7th, 2025. Explore the all new ⁠Defacto Sound website⁠, and click the ⁠Contact Form⁠ to get in touch. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at ⁠mystery.20k.org⁠. Follow Dallas on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠TikTok⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠ and ⁠LinkedIn⁠. Join our community on ⁠Reddit⁠ and follow us on ⁠Facebook⁠. Start your free online visit for hair loss treatment at hims.com/20k. Cut your current cloud bill in half with OCI at ⁠oracle.com/20k⁠. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: ⁠www.20k.org/episodes/the-deaf-composer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Tunbridge joins Andrew to discuss lieder by Clara Schumann in Building a Library.

Laura Tunbridge chooses her favourite recording of Schumann's Cello Concerto

There are approximately one bajillion biographies of Beethoven: do we need really another one? In fact, we do, because Laura Tunbridge has written an engrossing, provocative, and genuinely fresh book about Beethoven's life and times. A conversation about what it means to write about one of the most well-trodden composers in music history, and the rich new perspectives that Dr. Tunbridge brings to our understanding of Beethoven.Laura Tunbridge is Professor of Music and Henfrey Fellow and Tutor at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford.Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.org!A new call to action: tell us why you listen to the show! Tag Will on Instagram/Twitter @seatedovation or email our inbox, soundexpertise00@gmail.com

Laura Tunbridge recommends her favourite recording of Beethoven's String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1. In Vienna at the end of the 18th century, Beethoven was in his late 20s, the supreme keyboard composer-improviser of his day. With dogged determination and a degree of circumspection he began picking off various genres over which the shadows of the late Mozart and the very much alive Haydn loomed large. With piano sonatas, piano trios and string trios under his belt, it took two laborious years to complete the Op 18 set of six string quartets. The first of the set was intended to make a big impression. Its imposing scale and wide expressive range are typical of the young Beethoven, including a restless dynamic energy and a tragic slow movement inspired, he said, by the tomb scene of Romeo and Juliet.

Empiezo este episodio con una especie de nota en cuanto a un hilo en mi cuenta de Twitter personal @licjaimearturo. Este hilo es producto de mis observaciones y confirmaciones en la lectura del libro de Laura Tunbridge de Beethoven, A Life in Nine Pieces. Es mi opinión personal en cuanto a los críticos de las artes, en todas sus manifestaciones, y como ellos, en su absoluta soberbia, quieren determinar lo que es arte y aceptable. No es una critica sino un juicio personal. No intento convencer a nadie con mi opinión, pero expresar cuanto daño estos mercaderes de la ortodoxia producen en creadores. Dejando de un lado esta opinión, mi invitada de hoy es Dominique Molina, una difusora del folclor chileno a través de la radio independiente Radio Folclor Chile con su espacio radial Canto Chile Folclor (www.radiofolclorchile.cl). Con Domi hablé sobre sus comienzos en la radio, los grupos que ella ha apoyado a traves de la difusión radial, su trabajo de producción en la radio y en la cultura, en especial desde diferentes posiciones como folclorista. A pesar de que ella no se considera folclorista, ella hace mucho más trabajo como folclorista que los propios miembros de un gabinete gubernamental. A ella y a todos los conjuntos folclóricos, cantautores y exponentes del folclor chileno, mi AGRADECIMIENTO por el trabajo que ustedes hacen. Si escuchas este episodio en la plataforma de Ivoox, quiero que sepas que el botón de “Apoyar” o “Fans” está activado. Gracias a Iñaki Sánchez por ser un Fan de mi podcast y apoyarme constantemente. Si no puedes apoyarme económicamente, otra forma de apoyarme es compartiéndolo en tus redes sociales favoritas como Twitter y taguándome con @M2FM2S. De igual forma agradeceré que te suscribas al mismo, si aún no lo has hecho. Si lo has hecho, un millón de gracias por haberte suscrito y espero leerte pronto. Todos los derechos de este episodio están reservados y se prohíbe la reproducción del audio aquí incluido. El contenido de este episodio está protegido por las leyes de Propiedad Intelectual de EE UU (Copyright Act de 1976). Se prohíbe la reproducción de la misma mediante cualquier formato sin las autorizaciones o consentimiento de los autores de este episodio y su música. El logo de Music in 2Flavors/Música en 2Sabores es una marca registrada ®. Se prohíbe el uso, replica y distribución de la misma sin autorización de su titular al igual que parte o todo el contenido de este episodio. Me pueden contactar y seguirme en mis redes sociales: Twitter : M2fM2s Instagram : Music2Flavors Website : www.musicin2flavors.com YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEgWE1iT74RBzRTZDpT20Ww Tienda de artículos: https://m2fm2s.myspreadshop.com/

Author and scholar Laura Tunbridge and conductor Devin Patrick Hughes discuss the historical Beethoven in rehearsals, as the entrepreneur, the conductor, the early adopter of technologies, the family man, his controversial metronome markings, and the authenticity behind historically informed performance practice. Tunbridge is a Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, UK and the author of books about Robert Schumann, art-song, and Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, and is currently working on a book about string quartets.    The book is Laura Tunbridge's Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, published by Yale University Press. Thank you Laura for sharing your amazing passion and wealth of knowledge about Beethoven's life and music. Thank you to all record labels and performers that made this episode possible, musical excerpts came from Fidelio, the Third Sonata for Cello and Piano, the Choral Fantasy, Symphonies Three and Seven and the Piano Trio in C minor, performed by Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, Angela Denoke, Jon Villars, Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Cleveland Orchestra, Andre Previn and the Royal Philharmonic, Henryk Szeryng, Pierre Fournier, Wilhelm Kempff, Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and Sony Classical. You can find the book wherever books are sold, and follow Laura Tunbridge on Twitter. You can check out more info about One Symphony or lend your support for the show at OneSymphony.org.  Thank you to our most recent supporters Jessica, Bonnie, Carl, Lauren, and Steven. Please feel free to rate, review, and share the show on all platforms. Until next time, thank you for being part of the music!

Tom Service talks to the pianist Piotr Anderszewski about a new album he’s recorded and edited featuring Bach's preludes and fugues – a project undertaken during lockdown. He reflects how the quest to achieve perfection is one of the drives that still keeps him searching, as well as what he describes as the need to 'tame the beast' – his piano. The scholar Laura Tunbridge, expert on 19th-Century lieder, reviews 'The Songs of Fanny Hensel', a new collection of essays edited by Stephen Rodgers about this pioneering composer and sister of Felix Mendelssohn, who remains mostly undiscovered. We hear from the violinist Maxim Vengerov about his latest project, an educational website designed to give masterclasses to both his regular students at prestigious institutions.... and any players from around the world who subscribe and who are selected for free lessons from an open lottery. We learn about the touching stories behind the first two winners. And we take a look at two projects aiming to engage young audiences and bring them to Classical Music, including 'Classics Explained' – a YouTube channel dedicated to short video animations that throw light on the greatest pieces of the classical repertoire; and a new radio station for children, 'Fun Kids Classical', which is reviewed by radio critic, journalist and broadcaster, Gillian Reynolds. Photo credit: Simon Fowler, © 2020 Parlophone Records Limited

If you're looking where to start listening classical music, this is a place. Professor Laura Tunbridge reveals the personality of Beethoven through the composer's nine masterpieces. However, if you're already familiar with Beethoven, Laura's research will reveal a side of Beethoven you might not have heard before. Laura's page: https://artidote.uk/episodes/laura-tunbridge Twitter: https://twitter.com/LTunbridge Get Audible Free Trial: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=artidote-21 Book Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/he7YKD

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Paul Griffiths, the author most recently of the novel Mr Beethoven, to discuss the heroic oeuvre of the great composer, 250 years after his birth; Joseph Farrell takes us through the life and work of Gianni Rodari, a kind of Italian George Orwell transplanted to Neverland.Selected books:Beethoven's Conversation Books, translated and edited by Theodore AlbrechtBeethoven's Lives by Lewis LockwoodBeethoven: A Life by Jan CaeyersBeethoven: A life in nine pieces, by Laura Tunbridge– read the full piece here Telephone Tales, by Gianni Rodari, translated by Antony Shugaar See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week I am joined by Professor Laura Tunbridge, whose book Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces (published earlier this year by Viking Books) offers new perspectives on the man, the music and early nineteenth-century Vienna in this, the year of his 250th anniversary. Laura guides us through the nine works that she chose for the book, offering new perspectives on some of the choices made by this complicated genius. www.prestomusic.com/classicalYou can buy Laura's book here:Beethoven: A Life in Nine PiecesLaura Tunbridgehttps://www.prestomusic.com/books/products/8719490--beethoven-a-life-in-nine-piecesThe recordings in this episode:Beethoven: Septet, Op. 20 & Clarinet Trio, Op. 11Berkeley EnsembleResonus Classics - RES10255https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8719600--beethoven-septet-op-20-clarinet-trio-op-11Beethoven: Spring & Kreutzer SonatasAnne-Sophie Mutter (violin) & Lambert Orkis (piano)DG -  4791679https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8031599--beethoven-spring-kreutzer-sonatasBeethoven – Complete Symphonies & ConcertosChamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus HarnoncourtWarner Classics – 2564637792https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7951068--harnoncourt-beethovenBeethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Choral FantasyChristiane Karg (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo), Werner Güra (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Pablo Heras-CasadoHarmonia Mundi - HMM90243132https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8784812--beethoven-symphony-no-9-choral-fantasyBeethoven: LiederMatthias Goerne (baritone), Jan Lisiecki (piano)DG – 4838351https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8736187--beethoven-liederJonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Nina Stemme (Leonore), Falk Struckmann (Pizarro), Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Claudio AbbadoDecca – 4782551https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7997601--beethoven-fidelio-op-72Beethoven - The late Piano SonatasMaurizio PolliniDG – 4497402https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7930708--beethoven-the-late-piano-sonatasBeethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), James Gilchrist (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass). Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique & Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot GardinerSDG - SDG718https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8034633--beethoven-missa-solemnis-in-d-major-op-123Beethoven - Late String QuartetsTakács QuartetDecca - 4708492https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7933919--beethoven-late-string-quartets

Donald Macleod explores the enduring power, pathos and innovation of Beethoven’s late string quartets with guests Laura Tunbridge and Edward Dusinberre. Just two years before he died, Beethoven returned to an old treasured form, the string quartet. The five quartets he ended up writing would come to be his final major works, and would change the paradigm beyond recognition. Though dismissed by audiences in their day, their composition is now considered a pivotal moment not only in Beethoven’s life, but in the history of classical music. Donald is joined by musicologist Laura Tunbridge, and violinist Edward Dusinberre of the Takács Quartet, to discuss these extraordinary, watershed works that have bewildered and beguiled listeners ever since their creation. Throughout the week, they focus on each of the five late quartets, uncovering the stories, circumstances and conversations that surround them. Composer of the Week is 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. Music Featured: String Quartet No 12 in E flat, Op 127 Symphony No 9 (Finale, part 1) Bagatelle in E flat, Op 126 No 3 String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 Fidelio, Act I: ‘Abscheulicher, wo eilst du hin?‘ String Quartet in B flat major, Op 130 Piano Sonata in G major, Op 79 Grosse Fuge, Op 133 Piano Sonata No 30, Op 109 (1st movement) String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131 Lob auf der Dicken, WoO 100 Falstafferel, WoO 184 String Quartet in F major, Op 135 Coriolan Overture, Op 62 Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Amelia Parker for BBC Wales For 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: Return to Form https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jnlz And 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

In 1649, a month after the execution of King Charles I, the distraught composer Thomas Tomkins wrote a piece of music called "A sad pavan for these distracted times". And in our own confusing times, is sad music what we need - or not? Tom Service looks at music's power to heal, to build community and to redefine historical events. With Associate Professor at University College London, Dr Daisy Fancourt, and author of "Singing in the Age of Anxiety", Laura Tunbridge.

This week Kate talks a bracing walk along the sea shore in Blyth, Northumberland, and talks to wildlife sound recordist and composer Chris Watson about his life and work. Starting out as a musician at the centre of the Sheffield electronic revolution, making music with tape recorders with his band Cabaret Voltaire, influenced by the sounds of heavy industry, Chris eventually turned his back on the lure of pop-fame to pursue a career in TV and film, providing the sound tracks for nature programmes from around the world. Kate also discusses what makes a musical masterpiece with French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, and hears about his approach to reinterpreting the Beethoven piano concertos and French piano music. Scottish folk musician Alasdair Roberts reveals what influences him and why he feels his music is not quite in the mainstream. And, as the League of Nations celebrates its centenary, academic researchers Laura Tunbridge and Sarah Collins investigate a spin off international project using music and culture to bring peace and harmony to a post WW1 world.

Laura Tunbridge recommends recordings of Schumann's poignant song cycle "Dichterliebe"

A celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven, marking the composer's 250th anniversary year. To discuss what sets Beethoven apart from other composers, John Wilson is joined by pianist Stephen Hough, poet Ruth Padel, Oxford Professor of Music Laura Tunbridge and conductor Sir Simon Rattle, who says of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: "It is too much of everything!... this is a composer inventing the music of the next one hundred years" Throughout 2020 Simon Rattle will be conducting Beethoven with the London Symphony Orchestra, starting in January with Symphonies 7 and 9 and the rarely performed Oratorio, Christ on the Mount of Olives. Stephen Hough's recording of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos will be released later this year, as will Laura Tunbridge's major biography of the composer. Ruth Padel's collection Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life is published at the end of January. Radio 3 is celebrating Beethoven’s 250th anniversary with a year-long series, Beethoven Unleashed, launching on 13 January with Composer of the Week. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Timothy Prosser

"The sociable side of nineteenth-century musical life is not acknowledged as often as it should be..." – Laura Tunbridge discusses the interconnected, complicated and often contradictory myths and realities that link Chopin, Schumann and Brahms; the TLS's music editor Lucy Dallas takes us through a selection of other pieces on music in this week's issue, including new histories of the blues and the poetic pop of Kate Bush and the Pet Shop Boys; when Irving Sandler wrote his seminal history of abstract expressionism, he neglected to mention Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan and Elaine de Kooning – Jenni Quilter joins us to put these artists back in the frameNinth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler: Five painters and the movement that changed modern art, by Mary Gabriel Fryderyk Chopin: A life and times by Alan Walker Schumann: The faces and masks by Judith ChernaikBrahms in Context, edited by Natasha Loges and Katy Hamilton(with Liebeslieder Walzer, Opus 52, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra)Up Jumped the Devil: The real life of Robert Johnson by Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean WardlowThe Original Blues: The emergence of the Blues in African American vaudeville, by Lynn Abbott and Doug SeroffOne Hundred Lyrics and a Poem by Neil TennantHow To Be Invisible by Kate Bush See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Laura Tunbridge recommends recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Quartets

Laura will be joined an expert panel to discuss the book and its themes; Dr Benjamin Walton (Jesus, Cambridge), Professor Kate McLoughlin (Harris Manchester, Oxford). Chaired by Professor Philip R. Bullock (Wadham, Oxford). In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder -German art songs- was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s, so too did the songs of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and Richard Strauss. Lieder were encountered in a variety of venues and media-at luxury hotels and on ocean liners, in vaudeville productions and at Carnegie Hall, and on gramophone recordings, radio broadcasts, and films. Laura Tunbridge explores the renewed vitality of this refugee musical form between the world wars, offering a fresh perspective on a period that was pervaded by anxieties of displacement. Through richly varied case studies, Singing in the Age of Anxiety traces how lieder were circulated, presented, and consumed in metropolitan contexts, shedding new light on how music facilitated unlikely crossings of nationalist and internationalist ideologies during the interwar period. Laura Tunbridge is Professor of Music and Henfrey Fellow and Tutor, St Catherine's College, at the University of Oxford. Editor of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association from 2013-2018, in 2017 she was elected to the Directorium of the International Musicological Society. Laura’s research has concentrated on German Romanticism, with a particular interest in reception through criticism, performance, and composition. Among her publications are the books Schumann’s Late Style (Cambridge, 2007) and The Song Cycle (Cambridge, 2010). Laura will be joined an expert panel to discuss the book and its themes; Dr Benjamin Walton (Jesus, Cambridge), Professor Kate McLoughlin (Harris Manchester, Oxford). Chaired by Professor Philip R. Bullock (Wadham, Oxford)

Laura Tunbridge recommends recordings of Debussy's String Quartet

Britain has imported its culture from Europe for generations. Andrew Marr presents a special edition from Hatchlands Park in Surrey, home to the Cobbe Collection of musical instruments including pianos owned by Chopin, Mahler and Marie Antoinette. Frederic Chopin had a pan-European career. He swapped his native Poland for Paris, fled to Mallorca in search of sunshine and inspiration, and toured Britain twice, complaining bitterly about the 'crafty' locals and 'dreadful' British weather. But he had a huge impact on the musical scenes he left behind. Paul Kildea charts Chopin's journey across Europe. Sitting at the keys of Chopin's own piano, Kildea explains how this visionary composer shaped Romanticism. European composers and performers in Britain faced a tougher reception in the wake of two world wars. In her new book, Singing in the Age of Anxiety, Laura Tunbridge depicts the contradictions of a generation that viewed Wagner as a cultural high-point - but decried all things German as enemy propaganda. At the same time radio and gramophones dramatically altered the way people heard and responded to music. The digital world offers vast new audiences, but also brings new challenges to those in the arts. Munira Mirza is Director of HENI Talks, an online platform that aims to share cultural information and understanding with much wider audiences. By combining leading experts and world-famous works such as the Mona Lisa, she wants to take art outside the gallery. As former Deputy Mayor for Culture in London, Mirza envisages a future in which we have a truly international cultural scene. Producer: Hannah Sander.

Laura Tunbridge recommends recordings of Franz Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin

On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe delves into the world of transhumanism, a movement whose aim is to use technology to transform the human condition. The writer Mark O'Connell has explored this world of cyborgs, utopians and the futurists looking to live forever. Raymond Tallis seeks to wrest the mysteries of time away from the scientists in his reflections on the nature of transience and mortality. Laura Tunbridge listens to the late works of Beethoven, Schumann and Mahler to ask whether intimations of mortality shape these pieces, while the mortician Carla Valentine uncovers what the dead reveal about their past life. Producer: Katy Hickman.

Schumann's Maria Stuart songs Laura Tunbridge, Sarah Connolly, Eugene Asti, Richard Wigmore and Roger Vignoles introduce Schumann's Maria Stuart songs, op. 135 Musical credit: Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op 135: Juliane Banse and Graham Johnson, Hyperion, 1999 (CDJ33103)

Schumann's Lenau lieder Laura Tunbridge introduces Schumann's Lenau lieder, op. 90, in conversation with James Gilchrist and Roger Vignoles. Musical credit: Sechs Gedichte von N. Lenau und Requiem Op 90: Christine Schäfer and Graham Johnson, Hyperion, 1996 (CDJ33101)

Schumann in 1849 Laura Tunbridge, Frankie Perry, Richard Wigmore and Roger Vignoles introduce Schumann's late songs and discuss his Goethe settings from 1849. Musical credits: Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister Op 98a: Christine Schäfer and Graham Johnson, Hyperion, 1996 (CDJ33101); Spanisches Liederspiel Op 74: Geraldine McGreevy, Stella Doufexis, Adrian Thompson, Stephan Loges, Graham Johnson, Hyperion, 2002 (CDJ33106)

Schumann and literature (opp. 132 and 133) Laura Tunbridge talks to Professor Barry Murnane and pianist Tim Horton about Schumann's relationship to literature, manifest in the 1850s through his fairytale-themed chamber music, the Märchenerzählungen op. 132, and his piano pieces Gesaenge der Fruehe op. 133. Musical credits: Märchenerzählungen Op 132: The Nash Ensemble, Hyperion, 2012 (catalogue number: CDA67923)

Highlights from the Knowledge Exchange Showcase, 26 November 2015. Highlights from the Knowledge Exchange Showcase at Ertgeun House on the 26th November 2015. Featuring Knowledge Exchange Fellows: Dr Joshua Hordern; Dr Andrew Papanikitas; Barry Murnane; Laura Tunbridge; Martyn Harry; and Tiffany Stern.