-1, not viewable on an iPad in portrait orientation. There's a giant popup that covers the entire screen displaying "tilt your tablet" when in portrait mode. Who designs this stuff?
Same on Nexus 10. Didn't bother me, but I thought it was weird.
All of Bach
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#122I'm not into classical music, except from the very famous composers and everything Tchaikovsky has ever written (my sister took ballet classes since I can remember myself). That said, what's exactly the reason Bach's work made everyone here so excited? Can't we find these compositions on YouTube? ps. I'm listening as I write. Bach sounds really cheerful :-) Awesome music.
Paul Graham's essays discuss how the most exciting work in many media was done by the generation that invented them. For example, the most interesting paintings were done centuries ago, when oil paint was new. Bach is like that. When he was writing, the piano was a new invention, and a system of musical scales had been found that allowed you to change key mid piece, without retuning your instrument. Those things are old now, but Bach lets you feel the thrill they gave when they were new.
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#123As a complete Bach nerd may I recommend this as the ultimate recording of one of his greatest works: http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Matthaus-Passion-Bostridge-Colleg... A search for Herreweghe+Matthaus on Youtube brings up a 'preview' for those interested to listen immediately.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Ai171EQeU
I'm avid Rhapsody user to discover new music. This hard to find album is available there to play: http://app.rhapsody.com/artist/various-artists/album/js-bach...
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Too bad there is not an online version of this. Hardly any device in my home is able to play CDs.
There is the http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com , which is a streaming service with tons of classical. Currently 96,609 albums with 1,403,008 tracks, the vast majority of which is classical. They have 3620 albums of J.S. Bach music (and quite a few more of the rest of the Bach family). It is a little pricey, but I've always been tempted to subscribe.
There are a lot of hidden gems in the Naxos recordings, especially of rare composers and music but personally I find their quality subpar.
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#125Another remarkable projet regarding Bach is the Open Goldberg Variation ( http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/ ), a project that freely offer a high-quality version (they hired a world-class musician, rent a world-class piano and studio) of the Goldberg Variations. (I have no stakes in that project; I do enjoy listening to the album as work music though)
Another CC0 site https://musopen.org/music/composer/johann-sebastian-bach/ also hosts public domain recordings of other composer's works.
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#126no RSS? :(
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#127This is marvellous; but I can't find any indication on the site of the terms that they provide the music under. Is it public domain, CC By licenced, what?
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#128Layout: absolutely broken on small screens.
Applying something like overflow: none; to your body or main container is seriously not cool for a fixed-width layout.
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#129Man, am I going to love this. Can't wait for some of the cello solos. If anybody from the website is reading this, I have a tiny criticism: clicking anywhere on the page while the video is running closes the video. I don't know if I'm representative, but I often click in empty space to make sure my keyboard focus isn't in the video. I was disappointed when the organist was so abruptly cut off!
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library?filt... Might keep you going for a bit. Colin Carr playing four of the six suites. CC licenced, lowish bit-rate mp3s I can't play the All of Bach at all, suspect flash related (gnash/iceweasel on Debian Sid) EDIT: yup, flashplayer-nonfree works. This being HN, do we think a flashplayer based solution is sensible for a long term project such as this? Is mass tran…
I can watch them on my iPhone so I guess there must be either a fallback solution or something else. It was flash on my PC however.
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#130Man, am I going to love this. Can't wait for some of the cello solos. If anybody from the website is reading this, I have a tiny criticism: clicking anywhere on the page while the video is running closes the video. I don't know if I'm representative, but I often click in empty space to make sure my keyboard focus isn't in the video. I was disappointed when the organist was so abruptly cut off!
Yup, I clicked the empty background as well and was confused for a second when the video stopped.