pianosociety.com -- free mp3's

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james
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pianosociety.com -- free mp3's

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http://pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=1

This has a lot of free downloads of piano music .. unfortunatly only as mp3's.

I heard about it here ... http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/fea ... 37252.html

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At the other end of the scale there’s the work of Canadian lawyer John Lewis Grant, which I came across in the heady days when mp3.comwas trying to be a forum for independent musical voices. Grant’s big musical obsession was with Bach, and, dissatisfied with his piano-playing ability, he worked in the digital domain, using a MIDI interface to control a “virtual” piano.

The sampling was done on a Bösendorfer Imperial grand, and the fine-tuning of nuances and dynamics carried out on a computer. You can find his work at pianosociety.com, where he suggests that his performance of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier may be “the most listened to account of the Well-Tempered on the internet, with about one million downloads of individual preludes and fugues”. He obviously hasn’t checked out YouTube.

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Here is his version http://www.pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=101
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I'd forgotten about John Lewis Grant. The internet was different back then!

Thanks for the link.
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Thanks James.
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