On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:31:12 -0500,
wrote:

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:43:41 -0500, John H
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...first movement must have been way too much for you, eh Harry. Old Ludwig got quite 'bombastic'
there. Oh, maybe you found a nice, peaceful version played on a piano, eh?

My favorite version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7NL6CmUC94

Sounds a bit better, but not much, on the original Telarc CD.


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Nice, hadn't listened to the 5th in a while, but always a musical
treat. It's also a reminder of how YouTube has become a massive
personal jukebox of sorts, and almost totally eliminated the need for
maintaing a big private music collection. I must have close to a
thousand CDs that haven't been listened to in years. Should I try to
sell them, along with my many hundreds of vinyl LPs that haven't been
out of the packing boxes for over 25 years? Is there a market for
that sort of thing? Right now they are going to waste, and I doubt if
my kids would want them. The grand children wouldn't even know what
they were.

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That is the sort of thing you can get pretty cheap on MP3 or one of
the "loss less" formats (maybe even free). I don't have any music on
little bits of plastic these days and I doubt my grand kids would even
know what they were for.
64 gig thumb drives are cheap and will hold about 20,000 songs. You
would need a pickup truck to carry that many records. (a stack of LPs
about 8-10 feet high)