Free downloads from the Concertgebouworchestra (120th anniversary)

[otterhouse]

On the occassion of the 120th anniversary of the 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."
Download no. 1:
Franz Schubert - Symphony no. 8 'Unfinished'
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Nikolaus Hamoncourt
(recorded in 1997).
320 kbps MP3
http://kco.radio4.nl/?lang=en

There is registration required, but the recordings are unique!

Enjoy!

Rolf

[owlice]

Thank you for posting this!

[bhodges]

Wow, Rolf, thank you so much!  Looks like an amazing opportunity. 

--Bruce

[Maciek]

This is great! Thanks so much!

[Lethevich]

Another thanks from me, very kind to point this out to us

[imperfection]

On the occassion of the 120th anniversary of the 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."
Download no. 1:
Franz Schubert - Symphony no. 8 'Unfinished'
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Nikolaus Hamoncourt
(recorded in 1997).
320 kbps MP3

http://kco.radio4.nl/?lang=en

The 10 symphonies that will be given out are (in order, starting from Oct. 15):

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

There is registration required, but its free!

Enjoy.

[Lilas Pastia]

Nice, but it doesn't work. I can only play them on the computer. I can't burn them on thisc. Is there a special way to do that?

[Drasko]

Nice, but it doesn't work. I can only play them on the computer. I can't burn them on thisc. Is there a special way to do that?

Shouldn't be no problem whatsoever, just drag-and-drop the files on Burrrn.

BTW today's offer, Jansons' Beethoven 2nd looks like the same one which was previously commercialy issued on RCO Live.

[Opus106]

Nice, but it doesn't work. I can only play them on the computer. I can't burn them on thisc. Is there a special way to do that?

Do you mean that you can only play it within your browser, and not download it to your hard-drive? I faced that problem from within Firefox. But with Opera, I was able to download the file and save it on disk.

[Lilas Pastia]

I do as I'm told on the site: right click and 'save as'. It does go down on the hard drive, but in the form of a 4 second file which is not recognized by any program (Burrn, windows Media Player, Winrar Archiver). I get messages that it contains "an extension not recognized" by the program. 

[Opus106]

What extension does the file have?

[Wanderer]

I had no problem whatsoever downloading both the mp3 files and the pdf "booklets" using Internet Explorer.

[Lilas Pastia]

XaiBs8zx.htm.part
8shPYhvb.htm.part

I have strictly no idea how to modify them.

[Gustav]

I'll probably download all of them, and upload them all onto Mediafire. Or, some the members of the group can do that for me.

[Opus106]

XaiBs8zx.htm.part
8shPYhvb.htm.part

I have strictly no idea how to modify them.

I have sometimes downloaded a file only to find that it has been "mysteriously" converted to a html one.

And with regards to the Radio 4 website, when I click on Save Link As... (in Firefox), a 5 KB MP3 is saved. I don't think I have ever seen a .part extension before. 

[Gustav]

I dunno why it is so difficult for everybody, i just clicked on the link. "download", and save as.

[Lilas Pastia]

Cyber mysteries abound. When I save the booklet file I get it on the hard disc, can open and priint it as well. But no luck with the sound file. As I mentioned I can "open" the file and it plays all right. But that's not what I want to do with them

[M forever]

I only got the short file the first time, but then I simply cright-clicked on "download" and "save target" and it worked. The whole file is 66.1MB. On the page where you have the download button and the booklet, you have to click on the button, not right-click and save target. On the next page, where you only have the download link to the sound file, you have to right-click and save target.

[Lilas Pastia]

Thanks, I did that and it partially worked. There seems to be somthing strange going on. The whole Beethoven second seems to be downloaded (32:37 on the Burrn indicator), but the same treatment yields only 18:46 with the Schubert (first movement only??) and 9:51 in the Mendelssohn (again, probably only the first movement).

[M forever]

I did have similar problems with the Beethoven and Mendelssohn files. At first, they downloaded only partially and in random lengths, so I deleted the files and tried again. It took about 3-4 attempts each, then I got the complete files.