LibGuides: Streaming Audio & Video: Classical Audio

These resources cover a wide range of time periods, genres, styles, and instruments.

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
More than 150,000 albums of primarily classical music. Sign up for a free account to create playlists and access the mobile NML app.
Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall This link opens in a new window
Concerts in HD audio/video, plus documentaries and interviews. Create a free account the first time you visit (click 'Start Institutional Access'). Limited to 1 user at a time.
Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
Streaming tracks from all major genres and time periods: medieval to contemporary, choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde.
DRAM This link opens in a new window
Over 4,000 albums by primarily American composers and artists, from folk to opera, Native American to jazz, nineteenth-century classical to early rock, music theater, and contemporary music. It includes the complete catalog of New World Records; repertoire from CRI, Albany Records, Innova Recordings; and liner notes and essays from these labels.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Recordings
Audio and video recordings of Dallas Symphony Orchestra performances.
IMSLP
Tens of thousands of scores and recordings in the public domain.
Musopen
Recordings, sheet music, and other educational materials, without copyright restrictions.
Philharmonie de Paris Concerts
Selected jazz and classical performances, made available for specific time periods.
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Videos
Recordings of many Concertgebouw performances, conducting masterclasses, and documentaries.

Bang on a Can Online Marathons
139 performances from Bang on a Can's Online Marathons during the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Music USA Online Library
Focuses on contemporary American music, providing thousands of recordings and scores. Includes both previews and full recordings.
UbuWeb
"The unlikely definitive source for all things avant-garde on the internet." Includes sound, video, writings, and more.

These resources include digitized recordings of historical discs and cylinders.

AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM)
About 5000 recordings from the archives at King's College London, digitized from 78 rpm discs of classical repertoire, with a particular focus on Schubert songs.
Association for Cultural Equity: Global Jukebox
Over 6,000 music and dance recordings from over 1,000 cultures. Explore by culture, geographical region, and more.
Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection
Over 1,600 digitized cylinders from many genres, especially music of the early 20th century. Work is ongoing to digitize more of the 20,000 cylinders in the collection.
National Jukebox
Over 10,000 recordings from 1901 to 1925, on labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Includes classical, popular, and other music.
UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive
Thousands of cylinder recordings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, made available through UC Santa Barbara Library's Department of Special Collections.

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