Beethoven documentary

[Peter]

I didn't realise this was on Youtube - I remember watching this excellent BBC series some years back.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNoZw6Im86k[/YOUTUBE]

[Michael]

I think there were seven programmes in total and they went out around 1997. I have the Beethoven one on a DVD (paired with Wagner) and it was a particularly good documentary. Peter Cropper (now sadly deceased) spoke movingly about the Opus 130 string quartet and the opening of the programme showed Ira Brilliant (also now deceased) being present at the unsealing of a locket containing a lock of Beethoven's hair.