Super performers

[Hamfast]

Do you know where I can find Cortot, Michelangeli, Rubinstein, Cziffra,Hamelin recordings, which I can downloaded free?

[lenny]

actually the best method is to have an instand messenging program and have contacts with lots of knowledge and music!

[donjuan]

I agree with lenny.  Contacts are the key to getting anything in this world.  You wont be able to find most stuff open on the internet, but usually one person collects a bunch over the years and decides one day to share.  Just keep your eyes open and check out Da SDC forum for recordings which people put up.

[steinwayguy]

Do you know where I can find Cortot, Michelangeli, Rubinstein, Cziffra,Hamelin recordings, which I can downloaded free?

Or you could stop whining, support the suffering classical music industry and buy recordings.

[lenny]

I agree with lenny.  Contacts are the key to getting anything in this world.  You wont be able to find most stuff open on the internet, but usually one person collects a bunch over the years and decides one day to share.  Just keep your eyes open and check out Da SDC forum for recordings which people put up.

da sdc is indeed an excellent resource, thats if you can find your away round with all that stupid language.. 

[lenny]

Or you could stop whining, support the suffering classical music industry and buy recordings.

i get your point, but why pay for a recording i can get from a friend for free?

[brewtality]

da sdc is indeed an excellent resource, thats if you can find your away round with all that stupid language.. 

It really annoys me that people take advantage of the recordings that we post but then treat us like plebs.

on Topic: I would say that you should first consider purchasing the cds!
This is what i prefer to do even though i'm indigent. If you're insistent on dloading, in addition to IM contacts, you could try accessing FTP's. There are ppl out there willing to share (or trade) their collections, you just have to find them.

[Muzakian]

i get your point, but why pay for a recording i can get from a friend for free?

For the satisfaction of earning your keep... or maybe to have the pretty cover or the liner notes? Maybe you'd even be interested in boosting the classical economy? Haha have I convinced you yet?
Personally I would only download music or get a ripped copy from a friend if there were no way I could buy it. But perhaps I am vain, and anyway it's not my place to tell you what to do. 

[lenny]

i have bought man, even 1000s of cds

but when i know that i can get things for free from friends now, i just take the cheap and easy route

i do still pay for concerts, theres no way of getting in the for free 

[krittyot]

SDC is a great site. Yes, many foul languages but those members are really knowledgeable. you might think their only concern is speed but in fact there's always something behind it. Spend ur time there for a while and you will get hooked up. It's a fun place and u can have a big laugh excluding harsh words.

[lenny]

SDC is a great site. Yes, many foul languages but those members are really knowledgeable. you might think their only concern is speed but in fact there's always something behind it. Spend ur time there for a while and you will get hooked up. It's a fun place and u can have a big laugh excluding harsh words.

i find it very hard to understand most of the time

how did you learn how to read all of the stupid things they say?

[quasimodo]

Downloading is very bad  !!!

Anyway, I do it too . On IRC I find almost everything for free. It's easier to find very rare recordings than scores...

But never forget : free means illegal most of the time  .

For any details, PM me, I'll answer the first two  .

[f0bul0us]

Why am I not suprised to see the SDC brought to life in a thread titled "Super Performers"

da sdc is indeed an excellent resource, thats if you can find your away round with all that stupid language..
Pianoforum used to be a good resource to, then one day the floodgates to "Newb Central U.S.A" swung open. Now, you can't go a single page without seeing a question asking how to speed up scales.

find it very hard to understand most of the time

how did you learn how to read all of the stupid things they say?
This is because very often the kind of people who understand language used on the SDC are:
1. legendary mofos
2. Wikid on da 88 (or da portable 61)
3.  random penis' with highly respect'able performance confidence 'n immaculate execution of vaginally-wet technique in errection-shooting fury dat COMMANDS    in da quest for comedic genius.

SDC is a "who gives a ****?" forum, and many people have grown to like it. If you haven't then tough sh*t, it's privately owned which means (with regards to your opinion - an opinion that others may share as well)..."who gives a ****?"

[hodi]

i buy classical cd's sometimes, just because i'm too lazy to download.

but i don't think anyone should by classical music.

reasons:
the composer is 99% of the cases is dead, if you buy a cd, it doesn't go to the composer!
most of the great pianists are dead too, so the money isn't going to the pianist either!
all the money that you spend goes to those big fat labels that hungry for money..
and most of the cd's are really expensive without any reason.
especially cd's by glen gould, in israel for a cd of 55 minutes i paid $16!

[lenny]

i buy classical cd's sometimes, just because i'm too lazy to download.

but i don't think anyone should by classical music.

reasons:
the composer is 99% of the cases is dead, if you buy a cd, it doesn't go to the composer!
most of the great pianists are dead too, so the money isn't going to the pianist either!
all the money that you spend goes to those big fat labels that hungry for money..
and most of the cd's are really expensive without any reason.
especially cd's by glen gould, in israel for a cd of 55 minutes i paid $16!

i think the money goes to the pianist's family state too.

but MOST great pianists arent dead!

but you do have a point, regarding the ones that ARE dead

[lenny]

Why am I not suprised to see the SDC brought to life in a thread titled "Super Performers"

da sdc is indeed an excellent resource, thats if you can find your away round with all that stupid language..
Pianoforum used to be a good resource to, then one day the floodgates to "Newb Central U.S.A" swung open. Now, you can't go a single page without seeing a question asking how to speed up scales.

find it very hard to understand most of the time

how did you learn how to read all of the stupid things they say?
This is because very often the kind of people who understand language used on the SDC are:
1. legendary mofos
2. Wikid on da 88 (or da portable 61)
3.  random penis' with highly respect'able performance confidence 'n immaculate execution of vaginally-wet technique in errection-shooting fury dat COMMANDS    in da quest for comedic genius.

SDC is a "who gives a ****?" forum, and many people have grown to like it. If you haven't then tough ***, it's privately owned which means (with regards to your opinion - an opinion that others may share as well)..."who gives a ****?"

but that still doesnt help me understand it 

[rodrk352]

There is something to be said for live performance, as opposed to listening to a CD which is really a collection of trapped dead sounds. The sounds on a CD are really an illusion. No performer is really there playing for you. He/She doesn't know you exist. That's what makes going to a live performance so much better.   

[thracozaag]

There is something to be said for live performance, as opposed to listening to a CD which is really a collection of trapped dead sounds. The sounds on a CD are really an illusion. No performer is really there playing for you. He/She doesn't know you exist. That's what makes going to a live performance so much better.   

 Very well said.

koji (STSD)

[lenny]

i think the main concern for live performance should be spontineity, because a CD/DVD can capture most everything else

this is why i would pay to see langlang over pollini anyday