5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven [View all]

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?