Two new albums and others will be coming very soon at onclassical.com. The first one is a quasi-unique performance of the String Quintets by Brahms op. 88 & 111. The chamber music written by Brahms includes only two string quintets and here they are being proposed by the Sandro Materassi ensemble: a very energic group that includes some of the most notable and virtuoso musicians of Italy, such as Alberto Bologni (violin), Danilo Rossi (viola) and Mauro Valli (cello), and also Grazia Serradimigni (II violin) and Olga Arzilli (II viola). The captured sound on this CD is also excellent and reminds one of the real ambient of an old Cascina in the Piacenza region.

The second album is for Franz Liszt as played by the Italo-American excellent poetical pianist Roberto Poli. Liszt composed the second part of his "Années de Pèlerinage" between 1837 and 1849 on his trip to Italy when he came to know our artistic wonders (Raffaello, Michelangelo) and the poems by Dante and Petrarca. So which music and performance could be more inspired than this?

Enjoy!

"Many tiny stories. Played in Vicenza night, merged in the acustic perfection of the Olimpico, played by the “ballad-singer” Marco Tezza, focused on his dreamy effort.

There is nothing more recognizable than the popular soul. And this is Romantic Germany, nowhere to be found, lost. Marco Tezza, the story-teller, has played "Ein Choral", with suspended hands, wrapped up in velvet. And he was upright, nearly far from the keyboard, being a pianist who usually seems to penetrate with his entire body the wires, the hammers and the felts of that prodigy called piano."

Bepi de Marzi (translated text from "Il Giornale di Vicenza")

To see also: Marco Tezza at the Olimpic Theatre in Vicenza.

Starting last month we lengthened the period of time to download your purchased music from 10 days to 99 days. So all music purchased even 3 months ago may be redownloaded at:

onclassical.com/ecm/redownload.htm

We also implemented a function to download with no cookies activated or cookies deleted. On the page you will find a box and some easy instructions to follow...

(Re-)Enjoy!

Recently one MIDI file from kunstderfuge.com, and... played by me, has been posted as a demo for the organ samples produced by the OrganArtMedia a German house.

This is just another success after the 2005 collaboration with the other sample house, the Milan Digital Audio.

As you may know, last January we put online a free album, the OnClassical collection, which includes our best recordings for each instrument (piano, violin, harpsichord, and choir...). Even if our full-quality catalogue (in .wav files - not the previews of course) is covered by the traditional copyright, this unique album has been totally covered by the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA here included the master-files in .wav format. This CD has also been printed in 1000 copies. You may request a copy of the CD at 8 euros (+ shipping) to us directly at:

ONCLASSICAL by A.Simonetto
c/o Via Ca'Petofi 13
36022 Cassola, Vicenza
ITALY - Europe

Ph. (00)39 339 3162931
Fax. (00)39 0424 533137

However since we have not already published the full tracks on the website we thought it would be nice to have the tracks in good mp3 quality (and .wav quality too) on some free sites and we choose Jamendo, Jamglue and last.fm. On Jamendo you may download our music at a very good quality (192 kbps min.) In our humble opinion, this is a very cool site where "artists allow anyone to download and share their music". The second site - Jamglue - is more recent (born in 2006) and is intended as a point of reference for whoever wants to mix (pop and disco) music. Maybe our classical music does not fit in so well here not fit in so well here, but we thought we'd give it a go. These two sites use Creative Commons in their business plan. Finally last.fm is a web radio that "tracks what you listen to, learns what you like, gives you personal top charts and new music to discover".

For last we remind you that you may put all our previews, without further permissions, on other free websites, P2Ps, webradios, personal page... just remember to quote us and the artists with a link to their page at onclassical.com.

Below: Francesco M. Geminiani- Allegro in F major; the file is a 192 kbps of c. 4 mbytes in size: it will takes some minutes to download.

Just a few lines about the recent article on kunstderfuge.com published at creativecommons.org. You may read it at: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8110.

I like to thank Cameron (Parkins) for his precious interest.

Here a (partial) list of weblogs and websites I found that talk about us. This is very impressive considering that we are pratically doing what we do since July 2007. Thank you to all!

Other important articles or posts about us may be found at: http://onclassical.com/texts/press.htm (the list is not updated yet).

Blogs talkings about us:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7866
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7614
http://www.creativecommons.jp/world/2007/08/onclassical_1.html
http://creativecommons.org.yu/
http://www.theeyes.org/toccare/nuove_idee/onclassical
http://www.classicistranieri.com/dblog/storico.asp?s=OnClassical
http://jpllmusicnews.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/onclassical-creative-commons/
http://ww4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/flickrwrappr/photos/OnClassical
http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/753
http://mrkai.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/onclassical/
http://musicaclassica.biblio-net.com/artman/publish/news1743.shtml
http://haraita9283.blog98.fc2.com/blog-entry-138.html
http://keypivot.com/piu-di-70-000-brani-di-musica
http://stingyscholar.blogspot.com/search?q=onclassical
http://www.pitjamajusto.com/blog.php
http://www.frontieredigitali.net/index.php/Musica

Blogs / Sites quoting us:
http://divadianes.blogspot.com/2007/09/nothing-much.html
http://curealte.netsons.org/
http://camellex.blogspot.com/
http://maine.seroni.info/maine/estate-maine-real-waterfront/51.html
http://www.pmlay.com/index.php?go=neue-seiten
http://www.ilgratis.it/downloads/task,cat_view/gid,35/limit,5/limitstart,0/order,hits/dir,DESC/
http://www.indiebible.com/icb/feb2005.shtml
http://www.jeremydebeer.ca/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,52/func,view/id,434/catid,12/

Very interesting is what these last say:

As a response to your message inciting users to look for new alternatives I searched the web to look for legal ways to gain copyright protection and at the same time contribute to the free culture in the digital world.

In class we talked about Lessing and his book "free culture". Lawrence Lessing is also the creator of a non-profit organization called Creative Commons. Creative Commons offers really liberal copyright agreements that permits artists to license their works for free use. The artist then uses the creative commons portal as a database to post their works. The database contains movies, music, soundtracks and written articles.

At first this idea may sound a bit obscure, but sites like Wikipedia (a non-legal source) use creative commons licensing agreements for the authors that post the information. Wikipedia has become for many users an alternative for acquiring general background info (though sometimes unreliable) on a great deal of topics.

Another example of the Creative Commons agreements put to use is the online record label OnClassical. This record label share their profit shares 50/50 with their artists and, at the same time, they enjoy international recognition for the quality of its artists and performers.

I invite all of you to check out more info on the topic on the website creativecommons.com.

It's very important how they compare us to WikiPedia and Creative Commons directly!

About the Festival della Creatività:
http://eldino.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/it-festival-della-creativita-2007-alcuni-dovuti-ringraziamenti/
http://www.festivaldellacreativita.it/index.jsp?id=126476&id_sottocategoria=1418&language=it
http://eldino.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/it-festival-della-creativita-2007-alcuni-dovuti-ringraziamenti/
http://www.firenze.net/turismo/cm_dettaglio.wbs?id_contenuto=331019&id_categorie=92
http://quifree.it/portico/export/quifree/sito-quifree/MenuPrincipale_quifree/parlanodinoi/index.html
http://quifree.it/incms/export/quifree/sito-quifree/Contenuti_quifree/altriappuntamenti/visualizza_asset.html_204500709.html
http://www.italianinnovation.it/html/modules/article/view.article.php?10003/c0
http://www.italianinnovation.it/html/modules/article/transfer.php?c1/10003/pdf
http://www.women.it/cms/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=3267
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Firenze_-_Festival_della_creativita_2007/programma_quifree
http://eldino.wordpress.com/category/daap-party-live/
http://www.ideeinvacanza.it/guide/L2/INVINVL20030-divertirsi.pdf
http://www.cartellone.emr.it/wcm/cartellone/pagine/teatro_prosa/volume/interno.pdf
http://romaspettacoli.blog.excite.it/archive/day/20071110
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Firenze_-_Festival_della_creativita_2007/programma_quifree
http://www.lici.it/sites/lici.it/files/ProgrammaSessioniParallele_23sett07.pdf
http://www.beatricemagnolfi.it/wp/wp-content/uploads/ProgrammaQuiFree.pdf

WikiPedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnClassical
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
Other at WikiPedia / en: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=onclassical&fulltext=Search

Other (main) websites:
http://www.creativecommons.it/Audio
http://www.mostly4macs.co.uk/links/links_musicdown_UK.html
http://www.festivaldellacreativita.it/index.jsp?id=126476&id_sottocategoria=1418&language=it
http://www.organisti.it/notiziario_febbraio_05.htm
... and many others ...

Web researches / online reviews:
http://creativecommons.org.yu/files/cc_brosura.pdf
http://www.hackmeeting.org/materiali/CC.pdf
http://www.dark-legion.org/it/GNU%20LGPL
http://www.autistici.org/kraken/doc/cc_creativita_musicale.ppt

Recent posts:
http://www.livingos.com/2007/12/17/creative-open-source-audio/
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1242
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8022
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8110 (about kunstderfuge.com)

At http://classicaland.com/texts/why-buy-sheet-music.asp we published the following article, regarding sheet music e-books at classicaland.com, maybe of your interest.

Why buy sheet music when we offer you the same for free?

Use your computer to begin creating an important library of music books. You can save 99% of your money to do this, and avoid the encumbrance of dusty books or new improvised editions. You can print and distribute all the copies you want, and perform the pieces in public, all without violating authors' rights, or fear of doing anything illegal.

CLASSICAland is a collection of sheet music books in digital format (e-books). The collection includes plenty of integral e-music books which you can download to your computer to use when and how you need. With CLASSICAland e-books:

• you can have a good collection of the main classical music works (for piano)
• you can have all the e-books of sheet music perfectly ordered on your computer
• you can download and redownload music e-books whenever you wish from the classicaland.com website (no daily limits)
• you can print only the piece you're studying so as not to waste paper and ink, or space
• you can print as many copies as you wish of the music, give them to your scholars, friends, colleagues...
• you can have at your disposal historical and trustworthy musical editions (not new improvised editions which often contain many errors)

Moreover:

• you do not have to pay authors' rights to anyone if you desire to perform any of the pieces publicly
• you save lots and lots of money by not buying sheet music books (read more) - and it helps to save trees
• you are acting in a perfectly legal way according to modern day technological methods

Start now to download quality sheet music books for free in the measure of 2 files/day or subscribe for only 15 euros (no monthly or annual automatic renewal) to start downloading sheet music e-books with no time limits and help us in maintaining this important resource! Read all other many and many benefits to become member of our site!

Please also read:
how to download files and how much you'll effectively pay the collection...

So what are you waiting for? Do you want to keep on throwing away your money to buy the same books for absurd prices?

Two different recordings of the same event!

The year 2005 saw the beginning of a very fruitful collaboration with Gianluca Luisi: the fruits being 5 albums which were completed at Turin on the 12th July 2007.

Keep you eyes open for the imminent release of: Partitas by Bach (2 CDs), Chopin's 4 Scherzos and a Piano Recital containing virtuoso transcriptions. Mr. Luisi recently recorded the complete Well Tempered Clavier (4 CDs) and new albums are in program under the OnClassical label.

Now you may enjoy the first CD of the Italian pianist: Mozart's Late Sonatas in (1) (2) different versions reproducing the same recording but using different microphones (AKG mics. vs Neumann mics.)!

Eric Steuer and Cameron Parkins, staff of Creative Commons, has now just published the interview released for the official Creative Commons!

I would like to thank them for the opportuny given to OnClassical. I am really proud to be in such an important section that they call "The Commoners".

The interview's link:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7866
http://creativecommons.org/commoners/

Here a pic of the today Creative Commons home page!