Including premiere recordings, this programme provides us with a privileged opportunity to engage with 36 of Ludwig van Beethoven’s rarely heard sketches, variations and briefest of compositions, even the earliest of which have much to teach us about the emergence of his unique voice and style. The range of Beethoven’s musical experimentation reveals a lasting interest in counterpoint, as well as practical pages such as cadenzas for a Mozart concerto, an incomplete sonata and a second version of the famous bagatelle Fur Elise. A significant supplement to his greatest works, these miniatures bring the full arc of Beethoven’s singular genius into ever clearer focus.

• Beethoven: 3 Imitative Movements, Bia. 69
• Beethoven: Adagio in G Major, Hess 70
• Beethoven: Allegro in C Major, Bia. 279
• Beethoven: Andante in C major
• Beethoven: Canon a 2 Hess 274
• Beethoven: Canon in A flat major, WoO 222
• Beethoven: Draft for Piano in A Major, Hess 60
• Beethoven: Kaplied, Hess 63
• Beethoven: Molto adagio in G Major, Hess 71
• Beethoven: O Hoffnung, Exercise for Archduke Rudolph, WoO 200
• Beethoven: Pastorale in C Major, Bia. 622
• Beethoven: Piano Etude in B flat major, Hess 58
• Beethoven: Piano Exercise in C Major, Hess 59
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D Major, Bia. 213 'Quasi una fantasia'
• Beethoven: Presto in G Major, Bia. 277
• Beethoven: String quintet movement in C major
• Beethoven: Theme & Variation in A Major, Hess 72
• Beethoven: Two Movements from a Sonatina in F major WoO 50
• Beethoven: Variations (13) on the Arietta 'Es war ein alter Mann', WoO 66
• Beethoven: Variations (6) in F major on a Swiss Song, WoO 64
• Beethoven: Variations (9) on a March by Dressler, WoO 63