The first in the Life & Times series which sets Beethoven's violin sonatas in their social and musical context. On this disc the context is...

The first in the Life & Times series which sets Beethoven's violin sonatas in their social and musical context. On this disc the context is provided by Beethoven's pupil, patron and confidant Archduke Rudolph Esterhazy of Austria in his Variations on a theme of Prince Louis Ferdinand.