Classical Music Archives

[Aloysius]

[url="http://www.classicalarchives.com"]http://www.classicalarchives.com[/url]



$25 a year? I think I could afford that!

[Aloysius]

drool: drool: drool:


[url="http://www.classicalarchives.com/beethoven.html"]Beethoven[/url]
[url="http://www.classicalarchives.com/mozart.html"]Mozart[/url]










and... and..

drool:

[url="http://www.classicalarchives.com/early/p.html#PALESTRINA"]Palestrina[/url]\


If heaven were a website... it would be a mix of this and phatmass.

[homeschoolmom]

Quit drooling... You're getting my desk all wet...

[Theoketos]

There are free things like this.

[Aloysius]

you can get five songs a day free here. but for $25 a year you have access to ALL of it... I don't think you can find any more complete archive of classical music.

[Rebirth flame]

Theo, what other sites are there like that? This one won't let me download songs unless i do the $25 thing, which i don't have money for at the moment...

[Aloysius]

It will let you have 5 free ones per day... it's hard to find the signup thing but it's called a free limited membership. it won't let you download the zip drives of like, a whole ton of songs, but it will let you download up to five of the individual midis and live recordings per day.

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

Is there any Dvorak?

[Theoketos]

OK I misunderstood. I thought this was a classics as in Homer, Ovid, Cicero thing.

I too also am drooling until I fall out of my chair.

[Aloysius]

I hit my limit in under half an hour! (after downloading each I listened to them so that made it take longer)

I think I would be a candidate for the $25 subscription

[Aloysius]

[url="http://www.classicalarchives.com/main/d.html#DVORAK"]Dvorak[/url]

[Theoketos]

Gasp...they have no Hildegard...

[theculturewarrior]

it only has midi files for the onces I want, though. Isn't that where it sounds like it was made on a Commodore 64?

[Aloysius]

no, it works really well especially with instrumentals. download it.

[Philippe]

any vivaldi?

[Aloysius]

look for thine self, they're arranged very nicely in alphebetical order. you can even make an option for solely pre-1600 or solely post-1600

[Philippe]

i dont really like the sound of the free downloads... its so synthesized

[Aloysius]

there are also live recordings available, you just have to know where to look.

but the piano sonatas are good with the midi. maybe a bit too perfect making me feel very very inferior as a pianist ... but still great to listen to.

you should find a link under the composer you're looking up that says "live recordings only"

sometimes they're split into parts (each of which takes up one of your 5 downloads) but you could get the whole thing in a streaming (unsavable to your computer) media

[Aloysius]

I've had mozart stuff playin quietly in my headphones... but I just got the most brilliant idea!

everyone around me knows I have this dope keyboard that's really just like a real piano in most ways (all keys, real-feel to the keys, good real sound)

so I should blast this perfect mozart song while my door is locked, and everyone will think I'm playin it! they've heard me play the ONE complete beethoven sonata that I'm really good at so they'd believe it too! :

hmm... maybe that's dishonest and prideful?

[Aloysius]

for your vivaldi:

[url="http://www.classicalarchives.com/live/v.html#VIVALDI"]http://www.classicalarchives.com/live/v.html#VIVALDI[/url]

click "Play All" for the full song there, they're live recordings of actual musicians so you won't get that synthesized feel.