A better 2012 for everyone - please, God!

[fpb]

A few things about 2011 have been good - such as my days in Canterbury and the lovely people I met. But I doubt many of us will be sad to see the back of it. A better year to everyone, and a question - what if the greatest musician who ever lived had rewritten the loveliest friendship song known to man?

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Something like this might happen... 8-)

Comments

[eliskimo]

Happy New Year!

[shezan]

OMG PURE GENIUS!

(and lovely from such good singers!)

[shezan]

... isn't it, actually, BY Beethoven, rather than a clever pastiche?

[fpb]

Beethoven, like Haydn before him, composed hundreds of folksong arrangements. Numerically, they are the largest by far set of his compositions, and some of them are astounding. Actually, the Auld Lang Syne is far from his best. Favour me with your opinion of the following (and remember there's hundreds more where these came from):