Some of you might miss the links where you could download amateur renditions of John Williams' most famous themes. I removed these links in order to avoid charges of copyright infringement.

When I was young and rash, I took copyright infringement less seriously than today. Now that I've grown a little older and much wiser, I decided to spare my provider and myself the trouble of convincing spoilsports that we have no intention of exploiting the works of others. So I took the first step.

Let me just state that I'm very grateful for all the amateur recordings that were contributed to my website over the years and that I still enjoy listening to them. I'm proud to have them in my collection. Should any of you look for a certain amateur recording, please drop me a note and I will send you a download link.

As a token of my good will, I present to you a gift: Hable & Reichhardt play music of John Williams, a compilation of amateur recordings by my wife Katrin and our friend Oliver from Hamburg. I'm also very proud of the artwork created by our friend Miguel Andrade from Portugal.

This is the last survivor of my download links and I won't remove it.

Markus Hable, The JOHN WILLIAMS Collection