Comments on: Beethoven sonatas online

By: nick

nick — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 01:33:15 +0000

Real on OS X isn’t as invasive; Windows users have Real Alt through Media Player Classic.

By: Matthew McGrattan

Matthew McGrattan — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 01:21:04 +0000

You don’t need Real player to listen to it. Real Alternative will also work. Here’s one mirror… http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_players/real_alternative.cfm nice small program without all the hassles of Real Audio’s own player.

By: dofp

dofp — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 20:32:46 +0000

Alas, I’m in the eszter boat, and won’t let that Real Player travesty invade my machine. I wish large media outlets (BBC, NPR) offered some alternative to this proprietary nightmarae.

By: bob mcmanus

bob mcmanus — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:34:33 +0000

What eszter said.

By: Chris Martin

Chris Martin — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:32:31 +0000

The problem is not so much that they’re in real format but that they stream at 21 Kbps, which is awful. The complete Beethoven cycle is available in midi format, for what it’s worth, at http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Oeuvres/Music_MidiSonates.html ;) The people who made kazaa lite also made a light version of realplayer but I don’t know if it’s still available.

By: des von bladet

des von bladet — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:07:34 +0000

Great, and especially great that they’re making them available in .ram. Real is one of the few multimedia products that works well with Linux. (I have spent much time cursing the many radio stations of Abroadia which offer only the unusable Windows meeja blah.)

By: eszter

eszter — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:41:17 +0000

Great, but what a bummer that they’re only making them available in .ram. REAL is such a horribly invasive program, I refuse to put it back on my machine.

By: Scott Spiegelberg

Scott Spiegelberg — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:13:48 +0000

Very cool! I’ll have to listen to them soon. I’m particularly fond of the Appasionata and the Farewell sonatas, myself. And that funky one in G major, No. 15 I think, with all the syncopations.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:56:02 +0000

Call me pedestrian, but I’ve always loved the somber-sweet-then-wild nature of the “Moonlight” sonata. Pizarro really highlights that difference, playing much more slowly in the adagio than other pianists do.