Yuan joins BBC Symphony to make a Beethoven album

Lying on his death bed, Beethoven talks about composition to Anna, a young conservatory student and composer. As he waves his hands in the air to make a point, the sun sets outside his window, with cornflowers visible in the horizon.

That's the final scene from Copying Beethoven, a 2006 film that depicts the last years of the German composer's life.

It is also one of Chinese pianist Yuan Fang's favorite movie scenes. That's because performing Beethoven is the 33-year-old pianist's specialty.