Episode Synopsis "Episode 6: Dynamic Duo – Petra Somlai and Bart van Oort"

Performing the music of Beethoven and his contemporaries on a modern piano can certainly be done. But to appreciate the rhetoric and challenges music poses, we turn to the instruments of Beethoven’s time. Join Tom and historical performance power couple Petra Somlai and Bart van Oort for a conversation about the fortepiano, life in the Netherlands during lockdown, and the surprising merits of virtual performance.

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