Beethoven for All

[bruceb]

This is just amazing, and I want to share it with you all.

Mom's visiting this weekend, and I went looking for some classical music to add to my library. I saw the iTunes store giving front-page attention to new recordings of Beethoven by Daniel Barenboim. Well, thought I, Barenboim's an awesome conductor, let's see...and here's the complete

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[whswhs]

I believe that Beethoven's friend Goethe published a late collection of poems titled the West-Östlicher Divan (reflecting the era's widespread image of the "East" as a realm of exoticism, splendor, and sensuality). The orchestra's name could be a reference to that.

[bruceb]

That's exactly what it is, in fact.