All of Ludwig Van’s symphonies in MP3 – free
If you hop to it, you can get free MP3 files of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, as recorded by the BBC Philharmonic. At this writing it’s just numbers 1-5, but in a couple weeks the other four will be available (mark your calendar!).
BBC – Radio 3 – Beethoven Experience – downloads
Please note that they’ve taken the monolithic approach to ripping these MP3s — each file contains the ENTIRE symphony, instead of one file per movement — so if you’re short on time and/or bandwidth and/or disk space then you should probably explore other venues. (especially if you’re after that Third Symphony, “Eroica” [please note the absence of the letter "T"], at 51MB). Of course, some kind soul is bound eventually to split them into MP3s for each movement of each symphony.
w00t for BoingBoing for publicizing this one.
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