Download Beethoven's symphonies free and legal

[Gothmog]

I've been pretty busy lately, but I wanted to pass this on to the OT croud.

The BBC is releasing MP3's of Beethoven's symphonies as performed by BBC Philharmonic, and conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Symphonies 1-5 are already available, with the rest to be posted later.

I haven't gotten to listen yet (pretty slow to download) but given the BBC, I can only assume the quality is good.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/beethoven/downloads.shtml

Well, back to work: enjoy.

 

[Rambuchan]

I've been pretty busy lately, but I wanted to pass this on to the OT croud.

The BBC is releasing MP3's of Beethoven's symphonies as performed by BBC Philharmonic, and conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Symphonies 1-5 are already available, with the rest to be posted later.

I haven't gotten to listen yet (pretty slow to download) but given the BBC, I can only assume the quality is good.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/beethoven/downloads.shtml

Well, back to work: enjoy.

Got any NWA?

 

[Wolfe Tone]

Makes sense. I'm sure they've fallen into public domain. I'll have to download them

 

[Goonie]

Got any NWA?

Naughty by Nature?

 

[stormbind]

Gotta love the BBC!

Don't forget though, the British public paid for these to given out free. Production, marketting, and bandwidth is nothing to be sniffed at. One of them is 51Mb and how many people will be downloading it?

 

[handyandy]

i found them realy quik to download going at about 300kb a second, so in total taking only a couple of min, i was incredible surpised by the speed

 

[Shaihulud]

Nice, I will download them from school tommorow. My housemates porn downloading habit has eaten up most of the bandwidth !

 

[thetrooper]

Bah - I have all the CDs anyway.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I've nearly got all of them that are availible. I'm going to have to edit out the intro, I don't need an introduction spoiling the file. Hopefully I'll remember to get the rest on the 28th of June. I would ask if anyone remembers they bump up this thread to remind me. It would suck to only have the first half I've got a bit of a thing about completing collections.

 

[Gothmog]

I'm listening to them now, and the quality is very nice.

Rambuchan wrote:

Got any NWA?

Yes, but not for free and legal download...

stormbind wrote:

Don't forget though, the British public paid for these to given out free. Production, marketting, and bandwidth is nothing to be sniffed at. One of them is 51Mb and how many people will be downloading it?

Yes, thank you to the BBC and the British public for supporting them. I like most of what the BBC puts out.

handyandy wrote:

i found them realy quik to download going at about 300kb a second, so in total taking only a couple of min, i was incredible surpised by the speed

mine took a lot longer, maybe I got unlucky with server selection (but all 5 came in at the same speed a few kb/sec) - or maybe you're in Europe?

thetrooper wrote:

Bah - I have all the CDs anyway.

I have a few of them, but not the whole set. Also it is nice to have a full set by one symphony and conductor, my other's are varied.

Wolfe Tone wrote:

Hopefully I'll remember to get the rest on the 28th of June.

I'm planning to, I have it bookmarked - if I remember I'll bump the thread and would ask anyone else to do the same. The BBC is only going to host the files for 1 week due to the constraints already mentioned by stormbind.

 

[wit>trope]

What is NWA?

Thanks so much for the link!

 

[classical_hero]

Bah - I have all the CDs anyway.

I've only got the ones that I like. I have the 6th, 9th. I also have the 5th, but it has been played too much and is therefore boring. If you have a look at my Profile, you will see that I have the man in question as my profile picture.

 

[OrpheusPrime]

Good music that is free, vary nice indeed. Thanks Gothmog.

 

[nonconformist]

Seeing as this comes out of my lifeblood, they may as well give me something back.

 

[Rambuchan]

What is NWA?

Probably the world's first ever gangster rap outfit. These guys rocked it HARD and they were RUDE!

Check it out: 'NWA - biography'

 

[thetrooper]

I've only got the ones that I like. I have the 6th, 9th. I also have the 5th, but it has been played too much and is therefore boring.

Just adding that #3 = Eroica and #6 = Pastorale.

If you have a look at my Profile, you will see that I have the man in question as my profile picture.

I know

The same pic is on the front of my LvB box.

 

[King Alexander]

Well done, Gothmog, thanks for the link

 

[ummmm........]

Probably the world's first ever gangster rap outfit. These guys rocked it HARD and they were RUDE!

Then they released efil4zaggin and lost all credibility . . .

 

[vbraun]

Download is going to slow right now, so I will download these later. Thanks for the link!

 

[Birdjaguar]

Awesome, thanks gothmog!