Another public service announcement for classical music geeks

[dfan]

Found via Alex Ross's blog: Deutsche Grammophon is opening an online store with moderately-priced DRM-free super-high-quality (320k) MP3s of thousands of their albums, including hundreds of out-of-print ones. It'll be at http://www.dgwebshop.com/ soon, perhaps by the time you read this.

Comments

[damiel]

I followed Alex's link this morning, and it prompted me for user name and password. What a tease.

Now Melodiya needs to follow suit and sell me that out-of-print Borodin cycle of Shostakovich's String Quartets I so desperately need.

[damiel]

Be quiet, or I'll get you a twelve-tone opera for your birthday.

[dfan]

It's up now! First stop, Gruppen.

I'm telling you, eBay the Shostakovich. I see two places offering it for $40 (+ $15 shipping from Russia).

[mickeymao]

I guess I'm not enough of a classical music aficionado, because this made me wonder why Alex Ross is reporting on Deutsche Grammophon

[damiel]

Wow, the excerpts are long enough to actually let you appreciate performance details. Another money-sucking hobby!