June 05, 2005

Calling all classical music lovers...

Starting Tuesday, the BBC will be offering all 9 of Beethoven's symphonies for FREE AND LEGAL download!!!

Here's the schedule:
"Symphonies 1 & 3 will be broadcast on Monday 6th June, and available to download from Tuesday 7th June to Monday 13th June.
Symphonies 2, 4 & 5 will be broadcast on Tuesday 7th June, and available to download from Wednesday 8th June to Tuesday 14th June.
Symphony 6 will be broadcast on Monday 27th June, and available to download from Tuesday 28th June to Monday 4th July.
Symphony 7 will be broadcast on Tuesday 28th June, and available to download from Wednesday 29th June to Tuesday 5th July.
Symphony 8 will be broadcast on Wednesday 29th June, and available to download from Thursday 30th June to Wednesday 6th July.
Symphony 9 will be broadcast on Thursday 30th June, and available to download from Friday 1st July to Thursday 7th July."

Beethoven is my favorite classical composer, so I'm psyched. I don't actually have all of the symphonies.

Quick bit of trivia: Symphony #3 is entitled "Eroica" and was originally dedicated to Napoleon.... Of course, after Waterloo, Beethoven scratched Napoleon's name out the original score so hard that he ripped the page....

Drop by and indulge :)
(h/t VW and third world county)

Posted by caltechgirl at June 5, 2005 09:55 PM
Comments

Damn! And here just a few months ago, I ordered all nine of Beethoven's symphonies on CD from Amazon, so's I could rip them to my hard drive...

Posted by: Paul Burgess at June 6, 2005 11:01 AM

I still prefer Karajan's 1963 set for Deutsche Grammophon (although his 1948 Ninth for EMI is the superior one).

Posted by: Doug McKay at June 6, 2005 04:02 PM