5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven

[elleng]

Listen to the best of the stormy, tender work of the composer who changed music. ((His 250th Birth Anniversary is coming up, December 16.))

'In the past, we’ve asked some of our favorite artists to choose the five minutes or so they would play to make their friends fall in love with classical music, the piano, opera, the cello, Mozart, 21st-century composers, the violin, Baroque music and sopranos.

Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the stormy, tender music of Beethoven, who was born 250 years ago this month. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy; leave your choices in the comments.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/arts/music/five-minutes-classical-music-beethoven.html?

[wryter2000]

1. I already love Beethoven

I get so frustrated with the dog food commercial that uses part of the seventh symphony. It stops just short of one of the best parts.

[Jeebo]

2. I already do love Beethoven.

I don't need any persuasion. Of the options that are listed in this article, I choose the second movement of the seventh symphony. So incredibly beautiful, positively heavenly. I love the first movement of that symphony too, it has this relentless pounding cadence that just gets me every time I listen, I'll never get tired of it. I think I'll listen to it now.

-- Ron

[ret5hd]

3. Those were all covers...

why didn’t they feature any of his original recordings?

(I kid, I kid!)

[joshdawg]

4. Have enjoyed listening to Beethoven

for many, many years.

Quite some time ago, read Thayer's Life of Beethoven.............a very worthwhile read.