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Nick, the time will come when IMSLP will change its name. All big organisations do. They reach a point where they have a corporate mental breakdown and RE-BRAND. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but sometime. Leaving you, and your tattoo, up a creek without a paddle. You'd be like a man, newly i...

Don't do it Nick!

Maggie Cole, fortepiano, rehearsing at St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London -- images.

Surveying Current Perceptions of Porgy and Bess The controversy surrounding the upcoming production of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess is merely the latest stir generated across the storied history of George Gershwin’s “folk opera.” Since Porgy and Bess premiered in 1935, debate has ensued over its p...

Working fine for me. Which score was it?

Seconded! Many of those are wonderful. If the figured bass realisation is the blocking factor in the Ricordi editions, could it be blanked out? Would that make an upload lawful? Better to have a full score with a blanked out right hand in the keyboard than no score at all....

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I love this piece. It introduced me to Vivaldi (the Kirkby/Hogwood performance - before then it just got slaughtered). If someone can get hold of a copy of the Turin manuscript, and assuming it's legible, I'll set it in Sibelius and upload it to the Wiki. Or we could share it out in chunks and do it...

I don't know where to legally download the score, but here's the famous Kirkby/Hogwood recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7YdZuFTjpo