This is a family affair: two generations of Kuijkens – Veronica, Sigiswald, Sara and Wieland – play Beethoven's three middle-period Opus 59 Quartets, the "Rasumovskys". The set may not replace ...
In the spring of 1825, when Beethoven was 54, he became terribly sick. He was in bed for a month and he wrote to his doctor, "I am not feeling well ... I am in great pain." The doctor put Beethoven on ...