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The Music Room => General Classical Music Discussion => Topic started by: Carlo Gesualdo on January 11, 2020, 11:55:29 AM

Title: Any freebies albums on the web if I'm into medieval and renaissance
Post by: Carlo Gesualdo on January 11, 2020, 11:55:29 AM
Just a place to download for free, royalty paid since long time, label that does not exist anymore...

We wont to know, a perfectly secure download  of classical freebies.
Title: Re: Any freebies albums on the web if I'm into medieval and renaissance
Post by: steve ridgway on January 11, 2020, 07:53:51 PM
You can find some with the "search this collection" box on  https://archive.org/details/audio (https://archive.org/details/audio) although it's a bit disorganised and very annoyingly some of the results are 30 second samples only. My father downloaded Gb of old Schubert 78s he was very pleased with.
Title: Re: Any freebies albums on the web if I'm into medieval and renaissance
Post by: Mandryka on January 11, 2020, 08:24:28 PM
https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Servir%20antico
https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Super%20librum
Title: Re: Any freebies albums on the web if I'm into medieval and renaissance
Post by: DaveF on January 12, 2020, 12:47:48 PM
Quote from: 2dogs on January 11, 2020, 07:53:51 PM
You can find some with the "search this collection" box on  https://archive.org/details/audio (https://archive.org/details/audio) although it's a bit disorganised and very annoyingly some of the results are 30 second samples only. My father downloaded Gb of old Schubert 78s he was very pleased with.

Hang on - I've just found what is apparently the complete Bach Hänssler edition on archive.org - is this site entirely legal?
Title: Re: Any freebies albums on the web if I'm into medieval and renaissance
Post by: steve ridgway on January 12, 2020, 08:52:26 PM
Quote from: DaveF on January 12, 2020, 12:47:48 PM
Hang on - I've just found what is apparently the complete Bach Hänssler edition on archive.org - is this site entirely legal?

It shouldn't have anything illegal unless someone's uploaded something that hasn't been spotted - as with YouTube. There seems to be some rule about it being OK to hold recordings that are out of production and not commercially available. Which makes it rather complicated though if they suddenly get re-released :-\. Copyright law frightens me - I never upload anything.
Title: Re: Any freebies albums on the web if I'm into medieval and renaissance
Post by: Crudblud on January 13, 2020, 12:46:05 AM
Quote from: DaveF on January 12, 2020, 12:47:48 PM
Hang on - I've just found what is apparently the complete Bach Hänssler edition on archive.org - is this site entirely legal?
The Internet Archive is a digital preservation initiative that takes a Wikipedia style approach, so anyone can contribute to it. This means that occasionally some stuff slips through the cracks, but it is only intended to feature content that is either public domain, out of print, or given freely by the copyright holder.
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