Beethoven For All: Symphonies 1-9

BEETHOVEN… Everyone knows his music even if they don’t know they know. The ‘da-da-da-dum’ opening of the Fifth Symphony; the Ode to Joy from the Ninth Symphony; Für Elise – a favourite piano piece you’ve all probably learned, if not heard. The force of this project is DANIEL BARENBOIM - an icon of our time, a pianist and conductor who crosses over into popular and political culture. Now, in the year he turns 70, he brings the universal appeal of Beethoven’s music to a wider audience with an ambitious new project: Beethoven For All. The Symphonies were recorded in August 2011 in Cologne, the glorious installment of a worldwide tour that began in August 2010 at the legendary Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and will cover four continents by 2012.