In this dramatic recital Michael Hatchard doesn’t just play the music of Beethoven, he becomes Beethoven. Assuming the role of the great man towards the end of his life, he looks back on the highs and lows, his passions, disappointments, financial struggles, self-doubt, ill-health, legendary irascibility and all-consuming deafness – how all these things succumb to the magnificence of the music which will be played with utmost authenticity as a live stream.