The violinist Peter Cropper was an inspirational player of enormous integrity who was unafraid to set aside "received practice" in order to plumb the depths of the composer's psyche in search of the meaning behind the information on the printed page. Committed to the music, he played with raw passion, "like a man possessed", as one critic put it, though without affectation. In an interview in The Strad magazine in 2009, he admitted that "it was Beethoven who first inspired me to try to earn a living from playing music. I wanted to share his vision and his humanity with as many people as possible... I have spent so many hours trying to get inside his mind, to understand each sforzando,...
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