Proms Extra: Beethoven and German Romantic Poetry

Published: July 24, 2015, 8 p.m.

Professor Karen Leeder and Professor Robert Vilain explore the great German Romantic poetry which inspired Beethoven throughout his life from Schiller's Ode to Joy to Goethe's Egmont and Treitschke's Fidelio.

Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music