Need some Classical Music suggestions

[CountArach]

If I am not mistaken the musical scores themselves are public, but the recordings are not because they are the property of those who performed them. Not entirely sure though. Also linking to Torrent sites is prohibitted according to the site's rules, so you may want to remove those.

Thanks for the recommendations everyone, I have some listening to do.

EDIT: Oh and Lemur, I actually cringed at that...

[Lemur]

To clarify for CA and AP, there's nothing wrong with torrents per se; both Europa Barbarorum and Ubuntu are best grabbed as torrents.

That said, CA is correct, all of those recordings are probably in copyright, so I'm deleting the linkies, AP, and you should know better going forward. The musical scores are free of copyright, but the recordings of the performances are probably not.

EDIT: Oh and Lemur, I actually cringed at that...

And I am now officially obsessed with Beethoven on the banjo. Here's a more epic version of Ode to Joy.

[Aemilius Paulus]

To clarify for CA and AP, there's nothing wrong with torrents per se; both Europa Barbarorum and Ubuntu are best grabbed as torrents.

That said, CA is correct, all of those recordings are probably in copyright, so I'm deleting the linkies, AP, and you should know better going forward. The musical scores are free of copyright, but the recordings of the performances are probably not.

Good thing I asked before posting, or else I would have been in trouble

So if the music is uncopyrighted, does that not mean the recordings are free to distribute? Not sure about this, I will have to check the source of that music. If the Shostakovich music was recorded by the Russians, it is likely free to distribute. The rest I cannot answer for.

[CountArach]

Good thing I asked before posting, or else I would have been in trouble

So if the music is uncopyrighted, does that not mean the recordings are free to distribute? Not sure about this, I will have to check the source of that music. If the Shostakovich music was recorded by the Russians, it is likely free to distribute. The rest I cannot answer for.

It is free to distribute if there is no copyright on the recording itself, or the copyright is specifically public domain (You will find that most are not).

Now listening to Wagner's Das Rheingold Scene 1... not understanding what is going on, but it is very nice music, particularly the violins screaming out.

[Lemur]

So if the music is uncopyrighted, does that not mean the recordings are free to distribute?

No. No. No. In music there are many angles of copyright and licensing. Let's boil this down: If I record Bruce Springsteen playing "Mary Had a Little Lamb," I may not distribute that recording without Mr. Springsteen's permission. "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is public domain, but Springsteen's performance of it is not.

If the Shostakovich music was recorded by the Russians, it is likely free to distribute.

That may well be. There's a whole sub-class of works that either weren't copyrighted or were incorrectly copyrighted. For example, the original Night of the Living Dead was never copyrighted, so you can legally sell copies of it. Weird but true.