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EPISODE · Feb 28, 2026 · 56 MIN

100 years of recordings of Beethoven’s Symphonic Cycle

from The HiFi Hobbyist Podcast · host alan gillies

This week’s podcast is the third of a four-week cycle. This week will review recordings of Beethoven’s nine symphonies from the last one hundred years. This will be followed next week by letting our AI protagonists discuss the most significant recordings of Beethoven’s symphonies.  The podcasts are all accompanied by extracts from the Symphonies. This week’s recordings of the Eroica Symphony are performed by The Czech National Symphony Orchestra and published by the Musopen Kickstarter Project under a Creative Commons PDM 1.0 Licence and hosted at classicals.de I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast, and if you do, please come back next week for the last podcast in the cycle, or if you have not done so, catch up with the previous podcasts.

This week’s podcast is the third of a four-week cycle. This week will review recordings of Beethoven’s nine symphonies from the last one hundred years. This will be followed next week by letting our AI protagonists discuss the most significant recordings of Beethoven’s symphonies. The podcasts are all accompanied by extracts from the Symphonies. This week’s recordings of the Eroica Symphony are performed by The Czech National Symphony Orchestra and published by the Musopen Kickstarter Project under a Creative Commons PDM 1.0 Licence and hosted at classicals.deI hope you enjoy this week’s podcast, and if you do, please come back next week for the last podcast in the cycle, or if you have not done so, catch up with the previous podcasts.

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