Sunday Music Treat

Music is naturally subjective, but I probably won't get much argument that one of the most sublimely lovely pieces ever composed is Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5 ("The Emperor"), with the middle movement being particularly haunting (it's one of Scott Drayco's favorites, and Beethoven is featured prominently in the next Drayco mystery, Lethal Lament). Here's a version played by the late Van Cliburn in Moscow in 1962 (the movement ends attaca into the 3rd, so if you want to "see how it ends," try this link):