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Streaming Media

Naxos Details

Naxos Music Library is a large online classical music library. It offers streaming access to more than 138,740 CDs with more than 2,146,500 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. Along with classical music, jazz, world, and pop/rock are also represented.
 
Listeners can create personalized playlists or use predefined Naxos Music Library playlists. For student around the world the library also offers playlists for graded music exams (ABRSM, Trinity/Guildhall) in various categories and grades.
 
An array of background information is also available. Resources include:
 
  • Audio book transcriptions about the history of classical music and opera with listening examples.
  • Libretti and synopses of over 700 operas.
  • A pronunciation guide for composer and artist names.
  • A glossary.
  • An overview of important musical terms.
  • Work analyses
  • Work details with instrumentation, publishers, duration, other information and available recordings.
  • Classical music podcasts.