Catalog > Beethoven, Diabelli Variations

"It is amazing to me that Beethoven’s mind, so profound and so complex, could encompass both the glorious transcendence of the Op. 111 and the ambiguity, or perhaps renunciation, of the Diabelli Variations.  Which of these is the appropriate reaction to the conundrum of life, the prayer or the shrug? 

Every human being must make that decision for himself". - Gabriel Chodos