Celebrate Beethoven's birthday with a Spotify playlist

James Jolly
Monday, December 16, 2013

To celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday today, we've put together a Spotify 'Beethoven Playlist' with some classic performances including Nikolaus Harnoncourt's Symphony No 1, David Zinman's No 3, Carlos Kleiber's No 5, Karl Böhm's No 6 and Herbert von Karajan's No 9. We've also thrown in quite a few Gramophone Award winners and Hall of Fame honorees - as well as the Harnoncourt, we've Maurizio Pollini in the last piano sonata, Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Missa solemnis and Murray Perahia's piano concertos…

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