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String Quartets On the Web?
rueger writes "Lots of people love iTunes. I'm partial to emusic.com. Ubuntu comes pre-equipped for Jamendo and Magnatune. These are great for those of us hunting popular music — but where do lovers of classical music go to find new artists and albums, download music, and generally keep informed, up to date, and satisfied? As my girlfriend put it, 'I used to go to the big classical record stores downtown, but they're gone.' Where do people go to find the newest Ligeti String Quartet recording?"
iTunes carries a pretty good classical catalog for a casual listener as myself. If you can't find what you want online maybe you could contact the artists/label directly? I can only imagine the website sells the cds if they aren't selling digitally through another outlet.
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http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=The%2BParker%2BQuartet%2BLigeti&x=12&y=16&fsc=-1
DRM-free MP3s to boot.
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Jamendo and Magnatune are great for finding popular music?
Seeing as I'm pressed to find any Top 40 tracks on either website, I would say that they're good for finding obscure music.
(And so we're staying on topic here: I can find tons of classical music on Magnatune. String Quartets aren't out-of-mainstream enough for Magnatune or what?)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=classical+music+radio
I think you mean quark strings.
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Depends what you're looking for, of course. The major works are pretty well represented.
There's all kinds of scripts that download the .flv's to your hard drive.
Why don't you at least click on that link to Magnatune that you went to the trouble of inserting before presuming to say things about them?
I don't know if you've ever checked out Magnatune's offerings or not, but you're a lot more likely to find what you're looking for there than you are to find anything resembling popular music.
Try eMusic. They have tons of classical, and it's probably a bit cheaper than Amazon in some cases. Although there is one annoyance - if a track is longer than a certain length, you might have to download the whole album to get it, which sucks if you already have different versions of the rest.
ie You find an album with a symphony and a overture piece, but you have the symphony already (perhaps a different group, or same group just different album). If the overture is over some length (I don't remember how much, something like 7 mins or so), you'd have to get the symphony anyway, burning 12 credits rather than just one. Before that, you could get some long symphonies (Bruckner...) for just 1 credit per movement.
You can also try ClassicalArchives.com . I used to be a member, but I let it lapse. That was before the new site though, and I've considered going back. (Before, they only had public domain performances, stuff put up by the groups themselves, etc, and a crapload of MIDI)
I'm kind of partial to Baroque and Renaissance music, especially when I have difficulty sleeping[1]. So I found some obscure corners of the web that had streaming audio and everything was as fine as Vivaldi's spring day.......until the day that my PC caught a nasty virus, probably through Windows Media Player. They didn't offer other streaming formats, so please don't suggest Linux.
If you only download MP3 files directly, things may be a little safer than streaming, but content files can contain malware also. You may be safer paying more for a reputable store. They have more to lose from an outbreak, and are thus more likely to scrub their content and respond to suspicious activity.
[1] In rough general, Rock is for waking me up, Baroque is for relaxing, and Renaissance for sleeping.
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http://www.linnrecords.com classical, jazz and the studio master quality files are very nice!
All there classical performances are for all intents and purposes (assuming your living "in the UK" (nod nod wink wink,) and it's personal use) in the public domain.
Classical performers were trying to pull them over the coals for it a year or so back for knocking out all this free music and putting them out of business.
Is that whoever posed this question has never done even 10 seconds of research to answer it himself as one can easily find vast amounts of classical music online, on iTunes, Amazon, or one of the various "lesser known" stores.
I mean come on, I've downloaded several classical tracks straight from the iTunes promoted weekly single. So not only is classical available there, it's occasionally even promoted.
On top of that, every few weeks you'll see a deal on some bulk track sale on Amazon or similar stores posted to the old standby slickdeals.net site.
So really, why is this question here on slashdot? Is /. looking to compete with google by crowdsourcing search result for the most mundane and trivial bits of information out there?
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My classical collection has been built through the following method:
1. Get borrowing privileges at your local university library. (These are generally available to the general public for a small fee.)
2. Check out classical CDs.
3. Burn and/or rip.
If you are a student or faculty, then you also have access to interlibrary loan for the rare stuff.
Ironically I have been following this topic for a while. Today EMH Classical has launched 6 of their newest and most popular recordings as exclusive iTunes releases. A classical first.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/emh-classical-music/id385488162
I totally listened to that band you are talking about...
... before they were popular enough for Magnatune.
First off, mp3 is simply not good enough for Classical. If you must buy digital, go for 320 kbps or lame alt-preset-extreme equivalent. As a giant Classical snob (I listen to Classical exclusively), the only way I buy music is physical CDs, and then rip to FLAC once it arrives.
For purchasing physical media, I enthusiastically recommend ArkivMusic. They have a pretty damn good selection, and a really good sorting method where you can browse by composer, conductor, orchestra, soloist, et al., in a very granular fashion. I too checked the local brick-n-mortar stores in Atlanta when the recent re-release of Golijov's Passion of St. Mark hit the shelves only to find no one carrying it. I ended up ordering it from ArkivMusic.
Naxos also has a pretty decent online presence. You can buy from their comprehensive catalog on their site, as well as pay a subscription fee for unlimited mp3/radio quality streaming off their site from their entire collection. While the performers on Naxos aren't always the highest quality, I'd be willing to bet that Naxos has the most comprehensive Classical catalog of any publisher on the planet. Considering the breadth of their collection, if you just want to try new music, the streaming subscription is a pretty damn good deal, poor to middling quality or not.
Interested in unknown, but accomplished classical musicians? Check out wedding musicians. My wife manages a string quartet. They play mostly weddings and events. These women all have post graduate degrees and they are excellent classical musicians. I suggest if you search wedding musicians in your area and check out their websites, you may discover some excellent classical musicians right in your backyard and they may even perform in public as themselves or as part of other groups. Almost all of them will have recordings on their websites or otherwise available.
CBC radio has a bunch of fantastic classical options, especially for those who don't know what they want and its free(unless your Canadian, in which case its tax dollars well spent).
How about YouTube? Seems to me that you're more likely to run into new, cutting edge stuff (or old, obscure stuff) there than on a site that is trying to sell you things. Sure, you might run into say, drunk frat boys humming an ear-bleeding rendition of "Aria on a G String" with kazoos, and the recordings are frequently poor, snippets, or abominations. But it does have the advantage of being a great place to scout stuff out. If you run across something interesting, then you can check it out for real on a more sophisticated site.
If you're just looking to explore the world of classical music, youtube is a decent place to start. There are a number of GREAT channels there with hundreds of pieces. Here are two of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HARMONICO101
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGravicembalo
Hi all,
I think the poster means not where to get the record, but where to get a sence of new released works.
With a record store that specializes in classical, that is pretty easy because the people there are passionate about that type of music.
With itunes and the likes, you get just what the major record labels think you should be listening to.
And that may not be what the poster is interested in.
So I think that the question is: Where do you get news about what is interesting to buy...
No, I am not trolling. I go to what.cd for classical music.
http://what.cd
Best audio tracker there is. Lots of classical stuff.
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... if you're not in the US, and you don't use a Mac or Windows PC. Amazon does not sell MP3s to Australians; iTunes is Mac/Windows only. Personally, I've had most success with emusic.com, but as the querier has noted, their range is limited.
I really miss being able to walk into a store with a large classical range, have a listen, chat with knowledgeable staff, and have the chance of a serendipitous discovery. The web can theoretically provide the equivalent and more besides, but is hobbled by overly restrictive domains and copyright paranoia.
Obviously one of *the* labels for classical music. The awesome thing about their web store is that, in addition to 320kbps MP3s, you can buy FLACs. Very appropriate for fans of classical music which are often crazy about sound quality.
As a non-casual "classical" listener, I can heartily recommend the Naxos Music Library. This is a little different from naxos.com suggested above: naxos.com only has recordings from the Naxos label, while the NML includes many sister labels (including some great ones, like Wergo). They add about 1000 CD's every month, about 40 a day. I've rapidly expanded my knowledge of new composers, and great recordings of old composers. They have multiple recordings of the Ligeti string quartets, including the Arditti Quartet, for example. They're not cheap, though. :(
I listen to WQXR, a classic station native to New York City. Its my portal to classical music and they feature a great variety. Their website has a live stream.
I don't follow classical regularly, but emusic seemed to be well stocked. Their supply of obscure free jazz impressed.
What I really want is to purchase music which is already properly entered into musicbrainz with *all* relevant extended information, so that I can auto-tag it how I like... and I'd like this to be the case for medieval music and other 'obscure' areas of classical music... *sigh*
A few years ago the torrent version of the answer would have been Oink, easily the best publicly available collection of music in the history of of music. I'm only bothering to post this to bemoan the fact that even the sum of all legal electronic music outlets doesn't come close to the selection Oink had, nor the quality (flac on anything you wanted and asked for, or usually 320 kbps music if you preferred that). And if something wasn't there, you could get real results from a request, no matter how obscure.
Where do people go to find the newest Ligeti String Quartet recording?
Gay bar?
(kidding!)
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It's private, so you don't, unless you know someone with invites. It is excellent, however.
He says he has a girlfriend and uses Ubuntu. One is a lie. Geeks don't have girlfriends.
Maybe he met a girl who uses Ubuntu and is fantasizing about both.
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If you want a general classical music store that sells CDs, DVDs, downloads, etc., it'd be hard to beat Arkiv Music (arkivmusic.com). Good web site, good service, prices are reasonable, etc. Not only do they stock just about anything you can think of, they've also cut a deal with most of the major labels to reproduce on demand many items in the back catalogs that have gone out of print. No personal connection with them other than being a satisfied customer.
Same selection as iTunes, and that's in *addition* to magnatune and jamendo. Even Fedora and them have *those* two.
I never use magnatune, and I only listen to stuff on jamendo because it fulfills what amounts to my liberty religion. Most of it sucks.
Not that this helps you at all, but your list above should include it to be complete.
I have found http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/ brilliant for ordering CDs - I can see the different versions of pieces that are available and how they were reviewed. Presto will ship CDs all over the world faster than Amazon does. Also Linn records (http://www.linnrecords.com/) has the best download model I have yet found: for different fees, you can download tracks or albums in a variety of formats and resolutions, from 320k MP3 to 24-bit Flac.
Lovers of classical music usually take their horseless carriage to a convenient local musical emporium. A variety of cylinders are available for the various gramophones on the market. Please note that one does not actually purchase the cylinder -- one instead purchases the right to play the cylinder under certain circumstances, as laid out in the license agreement that accompanies it.
to find new artists or composers if you are into 20th / 21st century classical, or fusion/m-base/post bop jazz. For classical stuff I mostly hear of new composers on the Los Angeles classic station KUSC. Sometimes I stumble onto interesting stuff on Rhaspsody.
Nice to see there are a few other folks that like left brain music. I guess we spent too many nights performing pop music in bars and want to hear something different.
How about trance music? I only have http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/list.php?which=genre&id=11&order=score&sortorder=desc&page=1 for homemade audio tunes. What about commercial trance music videos? :(
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My fiancee is going to hate you. I go through periods of different genres of music. She dreads my classical kicks, and I have a feeling this thread will certainly set one off.
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Try Last.fm
HDTracks.com
No DRM
lot's of 96khz/24bit
flac/mp3/aiff
Individual tracks
Full albums
All styles of music
Very rapidly growing
New recordings
Lot's of re-releases.
http://www.passionato.com/ It's an online classical music store offering a nice catalog in both mp3 and flac. Lots of 25% off sales. But seriously, what.cd ftw.
Recently i've discovered Spotify as a relatively good source of classical music. Not only the popular collection - which certainly is present - but also quite some obscure ones. Of course, the downside is that you can't simply download mp3's and often the recordings are labeled poorly (sometimes no or incomplete listing of performers so you have to find other sources to find out who you are listening to), but it's the best available collection i've seen so far. Not sure in which countries it's available.
There is also at least one DC++ hub which started because more people had the exact same problem. If you have a large and very well sorted and labeled (group, soloists, year and conductor) collection, you can share and download there and find nearly everything you want. Of course, in many countries this is illegal, but for many recordings, it has been the only normal available way to acquire them. You should be able to google the right hub easily.
I must say around here we're lucky enough to have a store with classical music opened again - after they all closed or reduced their classical music section before.
http://hyperion-records.co.uk/ http://www.theclassicalshop.net/ http://linnrecords.com/ http://www.dacapo-records.dk/ and http://www.analekta.com/ http://www.classicsonline.com/ absolutely deserves mention, but has little on flac http://www.passionato.com/ and http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/ are good, but don't provide booklets
Maybe he does use Ubuntu and he met a girl who is using him.
if I only had a brain....
France Musique.
They have exactly what I'm looking for, with lots of not-necessarily-on-the-shelf, mostly classical music
http://mp3.live.tv-radio.com/francemusique/all/francemusique-32k.mp3
There is also a high-quality stream; but my place of work has a lousy connection, and so has my ISP.
YMMV
I'm a big fan of KUSC (http://www.kusc.org), particularly their evening show. Jim Svejda does some pretty obscure stuff at times, and I find his interviews and commentary particularly insightful. Too bad he's on so late on east coast time. Also for really avant-garde stuff, there's John Schaefer's New Sounds on WQXR (turned me onto minimalism back in the early 80s.)
But at home, I've ripped my CD collection and stream via iTunes, Airport Express/AirTunes and an FM transmitter with enough power to reach the entire house and yard. I'm into Early Music and about half my stuff is Medieval or Renaissance. There's nothing like Krummhorns in the Morning :-)
Not sure why no one has suggested the obvious best venue: Piratebay. This way you can find whatever you need in whatever bitrate you want (as someone else has said, mp3 is fucking trash for classical music.. even death magnetic a heavy metal album sounded like dogshit in nasty compressed mp3) and not have to shell out 95% of the bill towards a greedy publisher.
Last two albums I wanted:
-realize an album is out
-check wikipedia to confirm album name/release date
-download torrent from piratebay
-double click an icon on my desktop
I now have it. Forever. No DRM. No greedy publisher getting their filthy hands on one mother fucking cent.
And though most people don't believe me until they see me doing this in person, I mail a check for the price of the album (the actual price as if I bought it in a store) to the artist/studio.
Of the 87 checks I've mailed, only 13 have been cashed. 48 have been returned. 26 lost and forgotten or whatever. To me that simply means 13 artists have accepted payment and 74 wanted me to have their work for free. That was nice of them and I appreciate it.
Now I want to see some fire.. some flames and rage from all the legal and ethical geniuses of /.
I strongly second http://www.classicsonline.com/
I'm tempted to make some lame joke about Sackbutts, but I suspect that I already did. How-evar... I'm a recent convert to the wonderful sound of Citterns... I don't suppose you know which shady alleys might serve my deviant tastes in music?
Here in Spain I use Diverdi, at www.diverdi.com. I only buy classical music in SACD, and they have a really huge catalog. SACD Hybrid discs have a CD layer, making it simple to move tracks to your computer or portable audio player. It's true that you have to buy additional equipment (I recommend Oppo's BDP-83!), but the difference in sound quality is staggering, and well worth the added cost.
if you're into the more cutting edge classical world, check out the Avant Garde music project website. This guy rips some obscure and out of print classical records to MP3s and FLACs. i was able to find the original World Of Harry Partch double album (long out of print on Columbia) plus some Mauricio Kagel pieces. Check them out;
http://www.avantgardeproject.org/
The best option is Classical Archives:
http://classicalarchives.com/
Great selection, great editing of the site by musicians who know what they are doing, unlimited streaming for $6/month or buy tracks as you like.
Depends what stores are open near where you are.
The parent is right. Listen to a harpischord recording at 128kbps. It's awful. Or a soprano. If you can't hear any effects of MP3 encoding, you're not trying hard enough. Perhaps 256 or 320 is fine, but Amazon doesn't sell them.
I think that you would be pleased with hdtracks.com's classical selection. They don't have anything composed by György Ligeti. But you could always visit thepiratebay.org since you don't seem to mind US copyright law. Also, Wikipedia seems to provide some useful links to György Ligeti recordings.
It is not just the Mozart and Bach type of classic that is missing. Things like Dixieland jazz and Rockabilly also are quite hard to come by. Our musical heritage is being lost. A lot of this loss is caused by the copyright nuts. If they would let outfits like Stream Tuner alone much music could be preserved. As it is many of the tunes could not be properly recorded when originally created as machines did not exist that could do the job. So what we are left with are people in the 1950 era playing the old tunes and re-issuing that music. That creates that copyright nightmare all over again.
http://www.qobuz.com/ also offers a pretty good (not only) clasical catalog in mp3, wma lossless and apple lossless.
Classics Online, owned by the decidedly non-RIAA Naxos label, is by far the best source I've ever found. Not only do they have *everything* from Anonymous Four onwards, but they're not Evil, don't have any DRM, give away a free track a week, and frequently have "samplers" of composers you'll never have heard of, where you get ~20 tracks for £2/$2. I'm not affiliated with them, but I am a rather satisfied customer.
My UID is prime. Is yours?
Also check out KDB Radio at kdb.com. Monthly advance listings are where to look. Pretty good signal for internet radio. Annoying plugin, but i beleive that's an acceptable trade, see this next bit:
Here you go: http://kdb.com/musicsched.htm
sure, it's "programmed music" i.e. to fit their day plan / style, but i've never heard an interruption to any piece.
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Trouble is the people who distribute classical music have got their head up their ass and cannot see the forest for the trees.
I'm serious. The chance of you finding a specific recording of classical music is much higher on PB (or some other bittorent site) than on, for instance, iTunes. Especially if it is public domain or has some free for distribution license.
Same goes for old blues and jazz recordings and PB is THE source to find 1880-1960's Swedish popular music, lot of old Swedish people digitazing their old grammophone records and sharing.
Unfortunatly it is much less of that stuff on PB than it used to be a couple of years ago.
DG did an early digital (Philips) recording of Tchaikovsky's 4,5 and 6th as performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker and conducted (of course) by Von Karajan. This was, for me, "the" recording ever since I was a teen and first heard it. Anyway, you can buy even those recordings on their site. It's not as if they just have new stuff, or just have giant classics (although that recording was important in many ways) - they've been moving toward having EVERYTHING in their catalog online. And once you buy it, it's yours - I've had two oops events and all it took to regain them was to log back into the site and add them to my download queue. They also have been known to give out freebies on certain holidays.
Oh yeah - and there's usenet. You may find it hard to believe, but there's quite a lot being shared there.
There are thousands of radio stations acessible via Streamtuner and these can of course be saved with Streamripper.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
I have nothing really constructive to add but more of an off shoot that is semi-related. The Vitamin String Quartet can be rather amusing. Basically they are a revolving cover "band" that does string arrangements of some what popular artists work. They tend to do mostly punk/metal/rock type stuff. Mainly a novelty act from what I can gather but I would recommend the album they did of Bad Religion (mega fan of them). Its interesting to hear works that you know (especially in genres not known for their technical merits) become "classicalized". Do a Google or YouTube search and youll find a some of their stuff. If I remember properly you can get their stuff through iTunes. Good luck
That's where I bought them. So are Lisa Bielawa, Zoe Keating, several Golijov recordings, El-Khoury, and plenty of other contemporary classical music. Have you actually bothered looking?
http://magnatune.com/ has already been mentioned, they have some good Early Music recordings. Check out the folk stuff, too, there's some good crossover material.
For buying CDs and SACDs, you can try CanadaCD.ca
Greg (the owner) is super friendly and knowledgeable and likes to help people find good music.
(yes, I know them, so this is a bit of a shameless plug, but it's true)
Honestly, find a few labels that carry the stuff you know you like, and sign up for their newsletter or just check the release schedule on occasion. The other alternative, as someone mentioned, was to find a group of similar minded individuals and join their forum (Google can help you with that).
Aside from that, you can try the usual streaming suspects (last.fm and Pandora, etc..) but you might also try some off the wall streamers like Soma.fm, etc.
Is MySpace still an e-venue for bands trying to do promotion? Does Wikipedia have articles for bands you like?
Also, if you can describe what types/aspects of 'classic' you like, especially for the historical stuff, that will help you tons. For example I perfer Harpsichords over Pianos, and especially accompanied by strings... alittle hunting brings up a few hits that that gets you started.
Once you FIND what you're looking for, I'm sure you still have some sorta media store like a BestBuy that you can put in special orders from, or just buy their stuff on Amazon, etc
----- The internet has given everyone the ability to have their voice heard equally as loud.. even if they shouldn't be
Most of the popular music delivery services (you can parse this in two ways) consider music contents as constituted of one single sound file (or stream). Classical music works are usually much more than one single "track" and are structured - one level (movements) or more (e.g., for operas: acts, scenes; multiple works, etc.). Only few metadata systems take this into account and know how to present a work as a whole yet structured into its "parts", and without repeating the whole title on each of the parts. Additionally, in most of these systems, there is no real distinction between performer(s) and author(s) (composer of the music, author of the lyrics, etc.).
Deutsche Grammophon has a DRM-free web store (predictably at www.deutschegrammophon.com). Once you register with them, you can always go back to your account and re-download stuff you've bought, and the content is delivered as high-bitrate MP3s with no DRM, so you can move them between devices without difficulty.
I am not affiliated with these folks, I'm just a satisfied customer, and also slightly mystified that a DRM-free music store isn't more widely known.
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http://www.instantencore.com
Have you tried PBS.org? They seem to show all sorts of classical stuff - maybe through the site are others that target this genre.
One great place to buy CDs online (including but not limited to classical music) is http://cdconnection.com/ which is one of the oldest online stores--for all I know, quite possibly the oldest still in existence. They were selling CDs online (via a telnet interface, originally) before the world wide web escaped from CERN.
Although the interface to the store may be a bit old-school, the prices and service are good and the selection very good. I've been a very satisfied customer.
I don't expect to find classical on the net any more than at most record stores. The demand's too small, and if they have any at all, it's usually by crappy little eastern Europe orchestras at bargain prices.
If you're anywhere near a big city, public libraries often have tastefully chosen recordings; often they show little wear. There are also quite a few classical stations listed in iTunes; many of them have PD's who know their music. MN Public Radio has long had an excellent station.
Once I hear something on there I know I'll be appreciating for a lifetime, I'll go buy it. Else the day will come when those recordings are only available used.
"You must try to forget all you have learned. You must begin to dream." -- Sherwood Anderson
Yo. HDTracks.com. Also check out Linn Records, and 2L. Excellent quality recordings!
http://www.musicalheritage.com/
This might not fit your esoteric criteria, but for a naive listener (such as I) it had selections and off beat performances that I valued. To my surprise they still exist and they might sell some selections you might have an interest.
A text search of the comments did not show anyone had mentioned this option.
http://www.discogs.com/
Granted, this is a local public radio station in upstate NY, but you can stream it anywhere. WXXI is one of the vanishing breed of predominantly Classical radio stations here in the US. They have some jazz programs, and a little bit of news (and you have to put up with the occasional Public Radio fundraisers), but it is probably 90% high quality classical music programming: http://streaming.wxxi.org/fm-hi
(The station has been around for something like 40 years, so it's the station I grew up on!)
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Try Musistica.com
Title: Please Stand By
32 kbps 16 KHz
Automated message that keeps looping every 30 seconds:
While some ethnic or dream music is playing in the background, almost sounds like Enya.
I'm located in Tennessee, US.
This space is not for rent.
If you like "new music" you should really check out Mode Records at:
www.moderecords.com
Lots of Xenakis, Feldman, Cage, etc., etc. I think they are physical media only, but I know that at least some of their albums (e.g. the JACK quartet's recording of Xenakis's string quartets) are available on iTunes and Amazon.
Have you tried http://eclassical.com/ ?
They offer only mp3's, but at least they're DRM free.
I'm not like other individualists.
I use:
http://www.classicsonline.com/
http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/
http://www.linnrecords.com/
http://store.harmoniamundi.com/ (no download)
iTunes
Spotify
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Pre- turns a noun into an adjective. "Civil War" is a noun. Pre-Civil War is an adjective that we can use to describe things from before the Civil War. Pre means "chronologically before" not "in advance". Heated is not an event, but if it were... then a pre-heated oven would be ROOM TEMPERATURE. Unless it was a gas oven and the pilot light gave it some additional warmth.
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This collection contains some of the most miraculous recordings of the previous century.
Every Friday the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum hosts live chamber music; twice each month they post those concerts on their web site as mp3s that you can download for free (under the Creative Commons License): http://gardnermuseum.org/music/library.asp It's an eclectic mix of music performed by either local musicians or young talent... Not too many famous performers.
Have you tried The International Music Score Library project? http://imslp.org/ A friend of mine suggested it, it looks like you can search by instrument... -D