Best Site on YouTube?

[Petrushka]

This has got to be the best site on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Hexephilharmoniker#g/u. Loads of live recordings, many never commercially available, from the Concertgebouw and Haitink, the Proms, LSO, Bavarian Radio SO and the Chicago SO as well as live Carlos Kleiber recordings. I've just spent most of the weekend downloading audio clips to my DVD all full-length and in excellent sound.

Anyone know of a better site?

[rubbernecker]

http://www.youtube.com/user/dananddanfilms

Home of the famous Daily Mail song. My favourite is the Palindromic Sketch which is a masterpiece.

[salymap]

I think my favourite is Flanders & Swann, a selection of their songs. They cheer me up every time and I wonder if I were in the audience heard at one of their reviews, 'At the Drop of a Hat'.

[Auferstehen2]

This has got to be the best site on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Hexephilharmoniker#g/u. Loads of live recordings, many never commercially available, from the Concertgebouw and Haitink, the Proms, LSO, Bavarian Radio SO and the Chicago SO as well as live Carlos Kleiber recordings. I've just spent most of the weekend downloading audio clips to my DVD all full-length and in excellent sound.

Anyone know of a better site?

Petrushka, unless I'm unable to because I live outside the UK, how does one download these excellent recordings please?

Thanks,

Mario

[Petrushka]

Hmm...considering this is a forum dedicated to classical music (mostly) I was rather hoping that others would have checked out the treasure trove in the site I mentioned and perhaps offered up a similar or better site.

Still, as you were...

[Petrushka]

Petrushka, unless I'm unable to because I live outside the UK, how does one download these excellent recordings please?

Thanks,

Mario

Forget my last post which crossed with this. Thanks Mario.

What I have done, because these are audio clips only, is to connect my laptop to my DVD recorder (you need a headphone jack at one end and the red and white jacks at the other into the DVD) which is connected up to my hi-fi. Just record to a DVD as you play the YouTibe clip. Worked very well for me!

[Auferstehen2]

And thank YOU very much Petrushka - I shall try that.

Maybe others didn't reply as they were too busy with your very helpful pointer?

Mario

[amateur51]

Many thanks for this Petrushka - to coin a phrase used by the new Chairman of the BBC, I was 'gobsmacked' when I saw it. Many a happy hour to be had here, exploring its treasures

[salymap]

Thanks Petrushka, I shall look at your site too. My YouTube things have been put on my computer to help me cope with the hold-ups and get away from the stress of my computer. Incidentally, I started typing this earlier and was held up for 14 minutes by updates, downloads ,etc. I do take music seriously and thanks. It is now printing words some time after I have typed them. !!!

[Bryn]

Mario, I use the program "HiDownload Platinum Edition" to download such streams. It is not freeware but they do offer a 1 month free trial period. If you decide to try it, I would warn that you will probably need further (free) programs to edit and extract the audio from the files you download. PM me if you need further info.

[Chris Newman]

Thanks for this, Petrushka,

I have just listned to an absolutely divine live 2009 Beethoven Pastoral from Bernard Haitink and The RCO (it brings back fond memories of both him and Boult with the LPO) and a lovely chamber sounding but downright eccentric Eroica from the BPO and Furtwangler. Sometimes he is as brisk as Haitink or Mackerras then seconds later slower than Klemperer and there are curious moments where different sections are way behind the rest and you get two beats for the price of one.

Cheers,
Chris.

[gradus]

What a great find, truly full of wonderful things. many thanks Bryn.

[Auferstehen2]

Mario, I use the program "HiDownload Platinum Edition" to download such streams. It is not freeware but they do offer a 1 month free trial period. If you decide to try it, I would warn that you will probably need further (free) programs to edit and extract the audio from the files you download. PM me if you need further info.

Bryn, PM just sent. Thanks for the offer to help - much appreciated.

Mario

[amateur51]

I've only just tumbled to it, but the wonderful site that Petrushka refers us to in msg#1 not only contains wonderful complete 'live' performances but it also contains several examples of different performances of the same piece by the same conductor so that you can compare how the performances change over the years. For example I've just been listening to Giulini's warm tender reading of the first movement of Brahms symphony no 2 gets slower over the years and yet it is still beautifully 'sprung' internally.

Fascinating stuff!

[gradus]

Ref my earlier message I have just noticed that my gratitude should have been directed to Petrushka for the link to this excellent YouTube site, to whom renewed thanks.