Beethoven Downloads

The BBC is about to broadcast every single note of all of Ludwig van Beethoven’s works this week on Radio 3.

What’s more, it’s going to offer all of Beethoven’s symphonies in a downloadable format for a period of one week after they have been broadcast.

To quote Alex de Large:

"And it was like for a moment, O my brothers, some great bird had flown into the milkbar and I felt all the malenky little hairs on my plott standing endwise and the shivers crawling up like slow malenky lizards and then down again. Because I knew what she sang. It was a bit from the glorious Ninth, by Ludwig van."

And again:

"Oh bliss, bliss and heaven. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a space ship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied I knew such lovely pictures."