fpb | A pointless note which you should not bother reading (Reply)

What if you discovered the Holy Grail and found that it is mostly made of cheap metal? That's roughly what happened to me. I was pointed by an article in the New York Times (which I read through e-mail) to a website that listed available free classical music downloads. It is www.classiccat.net, but don't get too excited (like I did), because, as it turns out, available net resources for classical music are pretty scanty. Even so, I was itching for some Schubert lieder and I took what was available. Everything that was available - which managed to just about fill one CD. Only, while almost every download I have is of decent professional quality or better, I now have a CD in which some of the finest of Schubert's vocal music, so intensely bound to the sound of the German language, is sung in English and Russian! (Not to mention the Latin of the lovely Mass in G, but that at least was the original text.)