Just a quick heads up: Amazon.com is run­ning a pret­ty good look­ing deal on a box set of Mozart’s com­plete works. The pack­age includes 170 CDs of music. And it also comes with a cd-rom con­tain­ing essays on his works, artist bio’s, text and libret­ti’s. User reviews sug­gest that the record­ing qual­i­ty is quite high. The box set is being sold for $74.99, or 50% off the nor­mal list price. I’m not sure how long this sale will go on.

In the mean­time, if you’re more in the mood for some free Mozart, then spend some time with the clas­si­cal music pod­casts that we have indexed here.

Two Amer­i­can icons got togeth­er in Nashville in 1969 and record­ed at least 22 tracks togeth­er, includ­ing some well known clas­sics: Ring of Fire, I Walk The Line, Girl From the North Coun­try, and You Are My Sun­shine. You can lis­ten in on the his­toric col­lab­o­ra­tion for free here.

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The Bea­t­les’ White Album turned 40 last week. And that put the clas­sic album back in the spot­light, lead­ing crit­ics to revis­it the band’s most exper­i­men­tal and con­tro­ver­sial work. Was it their mas­ter­piece or biggest mess? (Feel free to post your thoughts in the com­ments below.) For one look back, you can lis­ten to this pod­cast from WNY­C’s Sound Check (iTunes — Feed — MP3). And, for good mea­sure, we’re throw­ing in some video clips from the album’s stu­dio ses­sions.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

The Bea­t­les: Pod­casts from Yes­ter­day
What New York­ers Heard on the Radio the Night John Lennon was Shot
The Grey Video: Mix­ing The Bea­t­les with Jay‑Z

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Mitch Mitchell, the last sur­viv­ing mem­ber of the Jimi Hen­drix Expe­ri­ence, died late last week. Here we have him solo­ing in con­cert in Swe­den, 1969. More on his pass­ing here.

Until Novem­ber 24, the Roy­al Con­cert­ge­bouw Orches­tra, based in the Nether­lands, is offer­ing 10 sym­phonies as free down­loads. You have to reg­is­ter, but once you do, you can down­load high qual­i­ty per­for­mances of Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms, and more. Hat tip to Metafil­ter for point­ing this one out.

Not to be too pes­simistic …

(PS You can find oth­er remix­es here and here.)

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