Honoring Ludwig van Beethoven's 245th birthday and classical music

Dear readers of my blog!

In order to honor Ludwig van Beethoven's 245th birthday, I would like to present you some of my favourite pieces of classical music and opera of the past three centuries, including works by Beethoven, Ifukube, Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi among others. This kind of music is particularly enjoyable in winter and especially around Christmas in my opinion. Next time, I will introduce you to some of my favourite scores or movie soundtracks. I hope you really enjoy these musical pieces of art.

Sincerely yours,

Sebastian Kluth

Antonio Vivaldi's Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (Le quattro stagioni) (1725)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's and Franz Xaver Suessmayr's Requiem Mass in D minor (1793)

Ludwig van Beethoven's neunte Sinfonie in d-Moll op. 125 (complete) (1824)

Richard Wagner's Die Walkure (complete) (1870)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 6 in B minor, op. 74, Pathétique (complete) (1893)

Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (complete) (1911)

Edgard Varèse's Amériques (complete) (1921)

Giacomo Puccini's Turandot (part one) (1926)

Giacomo Puccini's Turandot (part two) (1926) 

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (1937) (complete)

Akira Ifukube's Symphonic Fantasia - Volume I (1983) 

Akira Ifukube's Symphonic Fantasia - Volume II (1983)

Akira Ifukube's Symphonic Fantasia - Volume III (1983)