Since debuting with the Orchestre de Paris in 1999, Francois-Frederic Guy has become one of France's most captivating performers of classical music. Though he has an intimate knowledge of the Romantic composers, his undying devotion is to Beethoven, whom Guy has called “the Alpha and Omega of music”. Beginning in 2009, he staged a complete cycle of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. In this playlist, he allows you to climb inside the soul of the world's most celebrated composer to illuminate unseen streams of desire, passion and brilliance.