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Originally Posted by imcarthur
The music is in public domain, but the recordings would not be. But that is a disjointed mishmash of music. They give you 3/4 parts of the 9th, 2/4 parts of the 5th . . .
I guess it would be fine since it's free.
Ian
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Ugh. The result of our 2-second attention span world. It's not just kids anymore.
You can't properly appreciate the 4th movement of the 9th symphony without first hearing the first 3 movements. That's why the whole symphony is so long. To really "get it", you need to invest the time, just like anything else in life.
Beethoven is not background "wallpaper" music. If you really want to be blown away, get Karajan's recording with Berlin, set aside an hour where nobody will bother you and give it the proper time it deserves.