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  Terrific - Swedish music downloads lives ! Many thanks - hope perhaps folk will find many more.      Clive.

Can't tell you how much I enjoy browsing this site, finding many composers quite unknown to me, more details on those I'm just beginning to learn a little about, and of course the marvellous downloads section.
Since a good few of my new composer acquaintances are Swedish, I looked amongst the download topics for a Swedish section, but unless I'm being even dimmer than usual, haven't spotted one. So much else IS up there that I wonder if there's some good reason for its absence, or maybe I can prevail on someone to start one.
Many thanks to everyone who, however unwittingly, is contributing to my belated musical education. It's a joy, really, to visit the site !

Many thanks for replies - 'winrar' I fear you have to pay for, & no idea how to go about that (or much inclination since there's so much out there where payment can be 'bypassed'.
The '7' system is just plain confusing - which of the many versions is compatible with a very standard laptop ?
Fear I don't really understand why when so many contributors are kindly putting their uploads on a simple 'mediafire' system that even I can use, others are choosing a complex system which may involve the recipient in expense. Is there something special about this 'rar' system that makes it so preferable ?
Do so appreciate the many downloads I've managed to extract really easily from 'mediafire' - thank you to all uploaders !

                  Clive.

  Ah, gentlemen - and ladies: quite incredible, this site. Much of it sadly way too erudite for the likes of me.

I am greatly enjoying the download facility (I can hear what I love, even if I can't begin to understand the textual appreciation of why I might love it!) - during which process I note with appreciation that one of my great mentors from You Tube, Fyrexianoff, has surfaced among you !
Hi, Tony, delighted to see a familiar by-line !
Can anyone help me on .rar downloads ? I' m hideously incompetent at all this IT stuff; and loath, I'm afraid, to start paying out for things that I'm sure those brighter than I am are getting for free.
Mediafire has served very well for a number of gorgeous pieces - .rar defeats me entirely. Any help available ? Much appreciated if it is !

                              Clive.

Saint-Saens 4th PC, final movement; someone should write a hymn with it !

It actually is a hymn.  It's a transformation of the chorale theme from the 2nd movement.

Thought that's the way it sounded ! OK, any volunteers to set some words & get it into 'Ancient & Modern' ?

Saint-Saens 4th PC, final movement; someone should write a hymn with it !

Audience member : Getting 2 3rds of the way through my own Mahler symphony cycle 1,2,3,4,5,8, thanks in no small part to the Proms.
CD collector: Buying all the Naxos Hovhaness discs.
Participator: Starting to make up for 40 wasted (non!)singing years by being just about competent enough to take part in my first ever concert - Verdi Requiem. Now follow that (me not you !).

Hello - don't suppose it counts really, but, if you've nothing better to do, look up on You Tube the channel of an Italian composer, Giuliana Spalletti. To my untrained ear she has some lovely melodies, not least perhaps the Allelulia.

Widor - Sanctus from his Requiem - didn't even know till the other day he wrote choral music, now I can't stop whistling it !

Gentlemen, thank you. Intend to enjoy learning what I can here, and will attempt not to infuriate too many along the way !
                Clive.

Thank you, Sir !  I'm afraid that, though I know what I like musically, I've nothing to contribute in terms of understanding of a piece or why I appreciate it. Only finally started to learn to read music (to help with the singing I've at last taken up) 18 months ago, and am, after hundreds of hours, operating at only about 10/15%.
So, I'm loath to join in discussion by people with far more musical knowledge than I'll ever have, but reading the posts on a site like this, and maybe picking up the odd tip from contributors, is probably my best way forward. so, as long as it doesn't annoy anyone, i'll carry on blundering in ! 

Good for you Sir; a hugely underestimated composer. I 'found' his organ concertos 35 years ago, lost my recordings, and honestly, of late, was beginning to wonder if I'd just imagined he wrote 2 of them. Couldn't find them, or anything else of his, for love or money.
As a huge fan of requiems, I'll go with that as his next greatest work, but am open to suggestion !

Hi, I'm new. Guess 'goosebumps' is why I'm here !
Sure my tastes, like everyone's, change occasionally, but current favourite moments are:
'Amen' from Janacek Otcenas
Final chorus from Berlioz 'Damnation..', preferably with Toltzer soloist Ludwig Mittelhammer
Hovhaness Mysterious Mountain - well, most of it , really
Florent Schmitt Psalm can't remember number - big choral setting; magnificent !
Revueltas Noche de los Mayas
'Hostias' from Verdi Requiem

Enough.... !   

Hi, I'm new !
Can't agree with you about Poulenc, though. Try the unaccompanied motets. At least one of those can be on autoplay at my funeral any time !

Hi, I'm new. Don't know if any of these qualify ?

Janacek - Otcenas
Saint-Saens - 4th PC
Rheinberger - organ concerti.

Am going to love logging in to all your discussions on Unsung Composers. So much to learn. Apologies if this post is inappropriate.