The marathon will give listeners a chance to put Beethoven's best-known works in context, Radio 3 controller Jim Wright told the paper. "There are so many mountaintops in Beethoven that will reveal themselves more fully if we put the valleys in between," he said. "There will be a learning journey that will take people through pieces they didn't even know existed."
The station plans to broadcast the complete works of Bach, Schumann, Brahms, and Anton Webern in the future.