Grooveshark

I've always wished that YouTube had a feature that allowed you to listen to music (and post music to LiveJournal) without the big video messing everything up. Well, to my happy surprise, I've found a site that does just that - Grooveshark. It has an excellent selection of music; I'm listening to Ravel's Piano Concerto in G now, having just listened to his Concerto in D for the left hand. The sound quality is excellent; and there are a few recordings of each concerto too. The only problems are that there's no way to search by composer, so finding classical music is a bit awkward, movements of pieces aren't necessarily beside each other or in order - so you have to guess which movements belong to the same recording by the way in which the movements are described (i.e., is it "Piano Concerto in G - Allegremente" or "Piano Concerto in G major, 1st movement (allegremente)"), and the performers aren't given, not in the pieces I've looked at anyway.

But still - it's a great, great resource. I'm very pleased with the find. Thanks, Kate. Everyone should go on to it; and perhaps some

In other news. I broke a nail, which is particularly annoying at the moment because I have to practice some very fast music for the guitar orchestra tour in November.

Man, this piano concerto is divine. Let's try embedding.