Beethoven’s symphonies downloadable from the BBC
Posted by: Richard in BBC, Media, Music, Radio, UKI’ve often been struck that there is a huge repository of classical, and more modern music, that is long past it’s copyright expiration dates. With the growth of wikipedia, I’ve often wondered when enthusiastic musicians might get together to release free versions of such pieces.
Enter The BBC. Their podcasting experiment (which I’ve mentioned before on my techie weblog) is making high quality programming available for download as MP3’s for listening to on MP3 players (not just iPod’s! You just need an MP3 player, and iTunes is free and the best available).
So in today’s Observer, the Review section contained a set of letters responding to an article on iPod’s and Podcasting, and it seems BBC Radio 3 is making all of his symphonies available for download over the next few weeks. Symphonies 1 to 5 are available now, and the remaining ones will be available to download over the course of the next month for a week after broadcast. Stunning stuff.
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July 25th, 2005 at 10:51 pm
[...] I spent much of the morning listening to Beethoven’s 3rd and 9th symphonies whilst working. I’d downloaded them last month, and wonderful it was too: certainly made for difference to my normal music choice. [...]