![]() “This is probably something Beethoven himself wouldn’t have been given in the telling of his own story,” says Sophie. While Lloyd created the score, Sophie explains that she worked with writer Tim X Atack on earlier drafts of the story to focus more on deaf empowerment – something she says meant the authentic experience was included. It’s been really interesting to see the layers of the music build out. Lloyd goes on to add: “It’d be really interesting to start with one musician, and then see how other musicians then listen to the musician like, ‘alright, so they’ve made that choice, play a bit louder there, or be quieter there’ or whatever the choice might be. It would have been lovely to have that in the room, but it just wasn’t possible on the time that we had, the circumstances we had and the budget we had.” “You can never get that alchemy that you get between musicians and performing musicians. “I would always prefer to have musicians recording together in the same room where possible,” he says. Literally just finished recording this in my cupboard of duvet! Cannot wait for you all to be introduced to this – music by deaf composer Lloyd Coleman □ thanks for an incredible piece x While Sophie explains that her makeshift recording space involved padded out duvet and a tiny cupboard, Lloyd tells me that lockdown made the process longer, with each instrument recorded in isolation. The drama, produced as part of the BBC’s Beethoven Unleashed programming, has been announced in unusual circumstances, as a result of the ongoing coronavirus crisis. “We’re humans, and pretty flawed, so imagining going back to a time where we discover the history we’ve been fed was a bit of a lie, is pretty close to what we’re discovering now as we unpack a lot of historical questions. “People usually advise against that kind of thing because they’re never quite as heroic as we paint them to be,” she continues. “Well, in Peter’s case he’s been able to run around on adventurous escapades and negotiate with monsters and cyborgs, whereas I negotiated WhatsApp directions in a cupboard on my own, so it’s not quite the same level of exploration,” Sophie tells me about the role reversal, “but it did push my imagination into the realm of ‘what if I met my heroes from the past…?’ Sophie, who previously worked alongside Peter in an episode of Doctor Who, will be the one doing the time travelling this time around, starring as The Visitor. Created by Beethoven is visited by a deaf traveller from another time. Meanwhile Peter Capaldi will star as Ludwig van Beethoven in drama “Beethoven Can You Hear Me”, marking 250 years since the composer’s birth. “Then Sophie Stone, of course, as well, another actor I hugely admire, and I think all the creative decisions that James and Tim have taken in the project have been ones that have really, really excited me.” “I’m a huge fan of Peter Capaldi and the idea of having as Beethoven, I found too difficult to resist,” Lloyd continues. “I wanted to do it because it was a challenge and a new challenge for me about a man and a composer that I greatly admire, with a writer, Tim X Atach, who I also greatly admire. Our conversation takes place the day Lloyd finished recording the score for the 90-minute radio drama, which sees a deaf time traveller arrive in a world where the German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven never lost his hearing. With my phone picking up his audio, we agree that I will type out my questions using the in-built chat function. The deaf musician, who’s been commissioned to write the score for a new BBC Radio 3 drama, Beethoven Can Hear You, is unable to hear me on the call. There’s a particular irony in talking to Lloyd Coleman over Google Meet.
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