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Catherine Bott is a singer and broadcaster and co-presents The Early Music Show

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Catherine Bott's favourite Beethoven pieces
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'I remember studying this at the Guildhall School, with that piano solo and the joyous choral writing, so much more appealing than the Ode to Joy'


'I discovered the emotional perfection of this QuartetÌý when I was about the same age as the love-struck teenager Marzelline, and I remember actually singing it in a local concert - first love in the Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa'!


'This was an A-level set work - Ìýfull of tenderness'


'People who say "ah, the late quartets" - I wonder if they've bothered with the early ones?'




'As revealed in the film Fantasia when I was 5. Still my favourite bit.'