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BBC Offers Beethoven Symphonies for Download

Posted by Zonk on from the git-yer-free-music-here dept.

Simon80 writes "BBC Radio 3 is making performances by the BBC Philharmonic of Beethoven's 6th to 9th symphonies available for free download for the next few days only, as the second part of a trial to 'test listeners appetite for downloads'. During the first part, the first 5 symphonies were offered, and over 650,000 people downloaded them."

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  1. Re:Hmmm by lisany · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since this guy forgot to quote his source here it is. It's from Wikipedia (of course). Also, Ode to Joymakes an appearance in the last half of the 4th Movement without lyrics and again with lyrics in the 5th Movement.

  2. Only problem.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    There are many problems with BBC's hastily mounted campaigns. The one that's the most blatant, and the one that I will limit my discussion to, is related to its overt support of communism. Here's a quick review: Many people who follow BBC's hariolations have come to the erroneous conclusion that sin is good for the soul. The stark truth of the matter is that what I wrote just a moment ago is not the paranoid rambling of a yellow-bellied wacko. It's a fact. There is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until BBC and its lackeys started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that if the only way to put to rest nerdy and misguided magic-bullet explanations such as BBC's is for me to have a nervous breakdown, then so be it. It would really be worth it, because its most manipulative tactic is to fabricate a phony war between wily hucksters and silly, obtuse spivs. This way, BBC can subjugate both groups into helping it demonize my family and friends. I unmistakably don't want that to happen, which is why I'm telling you that we must reach out to people with the message that much of BBC's success is due to the rest of us bending over backwards to assist it and to overlook its failings.

    We must alert people of that. We must educate them. We must inspire them. And we must encourage them to keep our priorities in check. BBC's goal is to bathe in splendor while the rest of us go to work in the mines, but given the way things are these days, we must remember that the baneful nature of BBC's pleas is not just a rumor. It is a fact to which I can testify. What I had wanted for this letter was to write an analysis of BBC's plaints. Not an exhortation or a shrill denunciation, but an analysis. I hope I have succeeded at that.

  3. I already got Beethoven. by KrisCowboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can I have Bill Haley and His Comet's "Rock Around The Clock" plese? :-)

  4. Re:Torrent with all the symphonies by homerito · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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