Thursday, July 21, 2005

Free/Inexpensive Classical Music

I can't quite figure out why I never looked for it earlier, but there's a good amount of free or very inexpensive classical music available on the net. I vaguely remember looking for classical music back in the Golden Age of Napster but giving up because there was nothing much there.

Last month, BBC's Radio 3 celebrated 'The Beethoven Experience', broadcasting each of Beethoven's nine symphonies. These were performed by the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda. Best part was that they also made available MP3 recordings for free downloading for a week after each broadcast.

Looking around, I found the amazing eClassical, which has a huge library at amazing prices.
Will update this …

The Beethoven page on Wikipedia has free recordings of Moonlight Sonata and the Fifth (what else?)

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