MP3's last installment - get 'em while you can!

[Rod]

I've uploaded 4 more MP3s, all popular suff, on different Viennese pianos, this is the last lot so grab them while you can at the page below, they won't be there for ever.
www.frameworks-city.ltd.uk/Beethoven.html

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"If I were but of noble birth..." - Rod Corkin

[Chris]

Thanks Rod, it's been interesting. (I think something is messed up with th Op31/2 link, by the way.)

[Rod]

Originally posted by Chris:
Thanks Rod, it's been interesting. (I think something is messed up with th Op31/2 link, by the way.)

The link with op31/2 is now working, download away.

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[Chris]

Well, I think the Op. 53 is best one out of this group. Overall...maybe the Kreutzer. I'm still enjoying that one.

[Rod]

Originally posted by Chris:
Well, I think the Op. 53 is best one out of this group. Overall...maybe the Kreutzer. I'm still enjoying that one.

The performance in these recordings is a somewhat secondary issue, but I chose some that I like personally. Ultimately I am trying to show that, at the very least, these instruments of Beethoven's era are the equal of their modern equivalent when it comes to performing Beethoven. But compared with a fp in the right hands, I suggest the modern instruments sound tame by comparison, regardless of whatever 'big star' is playing. With the lastest 4 tracks, even the 1784 Stein recording has a poignancy I have not heard on the best of what we have today with WoO54, so subtle and pure is its tone.

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[Chris]

You know what I say to that

[Rod]

Originally posted by Chris:
You know what I say to that

Yes, and as usual you'd be totally wrong


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[Peter]

Originally posted by Rod:
Yes, and as usual you'd be totally wrong

He wasn't wrong about the Op.31/2 link!

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'Man know thyself'

[Rod]

Originally posted by Peter:
He wasn't wrong about the Op.31/2 link!

In bringing this to my attention, Chris only succeeded in furthering my position when I fixed it. So even when he was right, he was wrong to have been right!

Anyway, was the legato used in these last 4 tracks up to your high standard?!

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[Peter]

Originally posted by Rod:
In bringing this to my attention, Chris only succeeded in furthering my position when I fixed it. So even when he was right, he was wrong to have been right!

Anyway, was the legato used in these last 4 tracks up to your high standard?!

Haven't had time yet Rod, hopefully they'll still be there at the weekend?

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[Rod]

Originally posted by Peter:
Haven't had time yet Rod, hopefully they'll still be there at the weekend?

They'll be there for a while, a few weeks. Once people get used to the sound of one track, they (the clever ones) may like it and come back for more goodies. But eventually they will have to go. Have you considered using the tracks to make a page for your site? They are of value from a historical as well as musical perspective, considering B played all of these brands of instruments, and would fit in with this aspect of your site. Say they are supplied by me if you are worried about legal stuff (but this is hardly Napster!) or angry Steinway employees, also use the label and catalogue references.

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[Peter]

Originally posted by Rod:
Have you considered using the tracks to make a page for your site? They are of value from a historical as well as musical perspective, considering B played all of these brands of instruments, and would fit in with this aspect of your site.

It would be great to do that - I presume a link to your page would not be good enough, I'd have to download them all and create my own page?

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'Man know thyself'

[Rod]

Originally posted by Peter:
I'd have to download them all and create my own page?

Yes, but if I can do it, you can do it!

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"If I were but of noble birth..." - Rod Corkin

[Peter]

Originally posted by Rod:
Yes, but if I can do it, you can do it!

I haven't got enough webspace free so I've contacted Chris to see if he can help! If he can upload them, I can put a link from the homepage. They'd certainly be a great asset to the site.

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[Rod]

Originally posted by Peter:
I haven't got enough webspace free so I've contacted Chris to see if he can help! If he can upload them, I can put a link from the homepage.

If he can do it, he can do it!

Originally posted by Peter:

They'd certainly be a great asset to the site.

You bet, infact almost as good as the 'symphonies' page!


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