Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Last Master: Passion and Glory brings us through the last years of Beethoven's life, a time of great artistic triumph for the Composer as well as unrelenting personal anguish. With his one great love, "Eternal Beloved, " now in the past, Beethoven returns with renewed artistic purpose to Vienna, a city celebrating the defeat of Napoleon.
This is the era of Symphony No. 9 with its "Ode to Joy, " the "Battle Symphony, " and Symphony No. 7. It is also a time of grave internal torment, as the composer's o encroaching deafness reduces him to a pitiful figure among those royal patrons he once awed. With the final movement of his saga, John Suchet completes a remarkable portrait of this great composer, both as a musician and as a man.