His master’s voice

Ops! Moving off-topic!  Here's a database with free downloads of digitalized Finnish vintage recordings. Not very prog, but they are mainly from clay disks:

http://www.doria.fi/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?PAGE=chi ld&OUTPUTXSL=childbrowse.xsl&pm_POI=2757&hier=h1 .13.1.1&tree=o&pm_GS=50&pm_PRC=REPRAITA&api_ 1=GET_CHILDREN_GROUPS&pm_POI=2757&hier=h1.13.1.1.1&a mp;tree=o&pm_CGI=1&pm_PRC=REPRAITA&api_2=GET_GRO UP_CONTENTS&collID=43&langID=fi#h1.13.1.1

Scaring looking link, but it should work! Choose the years and click the song name which leads to the mp3 file.

goose wrote: Sorry to bump an old thread, but that's awesome . I'd love to have something like that... maybe one day I will

Sadly I guess there's no prog rock for gramophones! Maybe next ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT album comes on a clay disk!

Sure, our national composer. I think the best compositions of him are the "Violin concerto in D-minor" (preferably the earlier version from 1904), Lemminkäinen suite (features "The swan of tuonela") and "The Wood Nymph" orchestral ballad. I have from him for the gramophone "Valse Triste" and "Violin concerto", which takes several disks. What works of him do you like?

Debussy was your country man! "Pelléas et Mélisande" opera is my favourite from him, along with "L'Enfant prodigue". I guess there's still lots of music from him, that I still haven't heard though. Please, recommend some if you wish! Didn't find any of them for "the pandora's box".

I nearly forgot "Andante Festivo" from Sibelius. There's an essential version from it, recorded at New York from a finnish radio broadcasted 1939, just when the second world war broke out. Sibelius himself does the conducting... You can just fappily die after you have listened that. Period.

Hmm.... Current ones:

Composers: Händel, J.S. Bach, Prokofiev, Musorsgi, Debussy, Vivaldi, Sibelius and Gershwin, depending do you see him as a classical composer or not.

Performers: Feodor Chaliapin, Beniamino Gigli, Enrico Caruso and Placido Domingo

Conductors: Neeme Järvi and Herbert von Karajan

Which are your favourites?

Does anybody else here have experiences of this kind of antique?

I love classical music, and I managed to get a suitcase model of "His master' voice", few pacets of needles, and about 50 disks of opera aria's and such from the auctions. At last I can have the reasonable atmosphere for my evening espresso & armagnac.

Sadly there's not lots of prog on this format...