Free Beethoven!
Published June 2, 2005 by Ed Bott
Loyal reader Ken Gardner has been pestering me to broaden my musical horizons and listen to music written by guys who have been dead for hundreds of years instead of those who are either still alive or died in the past 20 years. “For me there are also only two kinds of music,” says Ken. ”Anything written by Beethoven and all other classical music.”
Well … The BBC is making an offer neither Ken nor I can refuse: all nine of Ludwig van Beethoven’s sypmphonies, in digital format, as performed by the BBC Philharmonic. Free.
The live broadcasts start on June 6, and the downloads are available for a week or so after each broadcast. Cool!
(Thanks to Wendy at Legal Tags for the pointer.)
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Wow. Thanks for the info!
Free Beethoven from the BBC
I first read about this in Ed Bott’s blog. The BBC site explains it this way:
Download all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies here the day after they are broadcast. All the symphonies are performed by BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
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