[Agent Kang]

Just a heads up to classical lovers:

To celebrate the 120th anniversary of RCO......

"Starting on October the 15th you will be able to download a free recording of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra every day. The recordings are available until the 24th of November 2008."

The 10 symphonies are:

Franz Schubert - Symphony no. 8 'Unfinished' 15-10-08
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 2 16-10-08
Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony no. 4 'Italian' 17-10-08
César Franck - Symphony in D minor 18-10-08
Gustav Mahler - Symphony no. 1 19-10-08
Antonin Dvorák - Symphony no. 8 20-10-08
Camille Saint-Saëns - Symphony no. 3 'Organ' 21-10-08
Jean Sibelius - Symphony no. 2 22-10-08
Anton Bruckner - Symphony no. 8 23-10-08
Johannes Brahms - Symphony no. 2 24-10-08

Link

 

[spookygonk]

Thanks, I have Shubert's Symphony No.8 quickly downloading, it's a 66.11MB 320kpbs file, btw (and the booklet is in Dutch).
Look forward to listening to these.

 

[jonathanjong]

bump. This has to be made known to the world!

Muchos gracias, Agent Kang!

 

[Jubei]

Thanks . . . very much worth the bump!

 

[Rlynn]

Many, many thanks to Agent Kang for the post.

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Originally Posted by spookygonk /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks, I have Shubert's Symphony No.8 quickly downloading, it's a 66.11MB 320kpbs file, btw (and the booklet is in Dutch). Look forward to listening to these.

The booklets I downloaded are in English. I clicked the "English" link in the upper right of the download page.

 

[dopeboyfresh]

Free music? No way!!

 

[Feather225]

GOSH this is amazing...hoped they were FLACs though, but what more to expect~ITS FREE ^ ^