Mark Steel on Beethoven 1st of 4

[EnglishPub]

This really is pretty bad.. the 'violin concerto played upside-down' was not part of the program for the premiere of his first violin concerto. Inbetween the second and third movements, Clementi did an impromptu performance of his OWN composition, on the G string only, of his violin which he held upside-down. This was, if anything, an insult to Beethoven for having procured the score for the concerto so late, preventing Clementi from practicing it (it had to be sight-read).

[Faboba]

@EnglishPub No one is perfect. You can see why he would have made the mistake having simply read that the incident occured during the performance. Thanks for offering the correction. You should e-mail Mark.

[dazpatreg]

The will young bit made me laugh out loud!

[sewagedweller]

i love his lectures

[wardka]

Thank you for this. It has me laughing out loud. I'm a huge Beethoven fan and this is surely the most unusual documentary I have seen yet on his genius. If more lectures were like this, I would have learned a good deal more in college.

[TeeVeeNZ]

@wardka: Mark Steel has a lot of great material on Youtube

this channel has some of his best lectures.

[acerb45666555]

2- think of all the icky things in the Coloseum in Rome! all done to the sound of harps and flutes! and cheering crowds suffering from a homicidal mass psychosis!!!

[acerb45666555]

music has nuthin to do with violence in society. there was no Doom metal in the 11th century! and hundreds of massacres and naughty things went on!!

[manchester26m]

Has anyone noticed Dale Winton's face pops up just before Mark's at the beginning?

[pastrychef1985]

Only now! What?!!??

[vulpecula999]

germaine greer - explain how silence differs from silence

[vulpecula999]

thank you thank you thank you - this is a fantastic series. mark steel is a very entertaining and intelligent fella

[randompalindrome]

why are the ratings disabled?

mark steel rules. I love his radio stuff, there's so much more of it.

[leebtheloser]

...is that Dale Winton in the opening credits...!?

[fjordland]

Thanks for your Feed back.

don't forget the other Mark Steel

Lectures on this Channel : )

[spetsnazrules]

Thank you very much for posting these series. They all are awesome.

[matt18matt18]

Does anyone know the name of that piece of music the video begins with?

[dramon231]

possibly the open source nature of knowledge proposed by the posting of these videos will warrant a mark steel lecture on the life of mark steel.. thank you again.. ive watched em all at least 3 times... i only hope his perspective can save us from the confines of the current concepts of education... better yet is the character acting.. thank you... MORE!!!!! pls

[fjordland]

Thanks, Amazon UK is going to stock a new Mark Steel DVD on the French Revolution I believe

be sure to get one and help Mark Out

[callumalden]

thank you very much, made my (rainy) weekend.

[fjordland]

And thank you for the nice comments

and encouragement for Mark :-)

[euanpwilliams]

brilliant! thank you!

E.

[Futurecast]

Thanks very much again.

[0m12]

Awesome, these are much appreciated, by me at least! Oh and if you happen to have the Sigmund Freud one lying about somewhere, it'd be great if you could upload it at some point! :)