British violinist Tasmin Little has posted a few of her recordings as free downloads on her website, www.tasminlittle.net. The recordings are of the Bach Partita No. 3 in E major, Ysaye's Sonata No. 3 in D minor, and the Luslawice Variations by Paul Patterson. You can visit the download page here.
This is a very interesting idea. It's interesting both as a means of addressing copyright law and as a means of getting more people interested in classical music. The problem is, I listened to her recording of the Bach Partita, and it's terrible. It was horrendously out of tune, and her interpretation was extremely strange (way too fast!). I happen to be playing this piece, and I know how insanely difficult it is to get it in tune, but a professional violinist should be able to do better.
You can listen to the recording of the Preludio (the hardest movement) here.
(If you want to hear an excellent recording of this, check out the Milstein or Szeryng ones. You can watch the Milstein one on Youtube here.)
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