The HiFi Hobbyist's guide to Beethoven's 9 Symphonies in which select our top 5 Beethoven symphonies

This week’s podcast is the first of a four-week cycle. This week we will review Beethoven’s nine symphonies and choose a top five. This will be followed next week by letting our AI protagonists discuss the symphonies and the Hi-Fi Hobbyists ranking.

After that, the following week’s podcast will consider some of the greatest recordings of Beethoven’s 9 Symphonies cycles, both from a musical and audio perspective, as befits a Hi-fi hobbyist podcast. The four-week cycle will conclude with an AI discussion of the different recordings.

The podcasts are all accompanied by extracts from the Symphonies. This week’s recordings are performed by performed by The Fulda Symphonic Orchestra, who were recorded live on March 10, 2002 at the Grosser Saal der Orangerie. The recordings are provided by classicals.de and used under Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast and if you do, please come back in future weeks for the later podcasts.