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Online Audio, VIDEO and Score Resources for Music
Audio
Over 1 million tracks of music representing almost 70,000 albums. Currently comprises the entire catalog of top-selling classical label Naxos and licensed content from BIS, Hänssler, Bridge, Hungaroton, CPO, Chandos, and over 400 other labels. Highlights include their series American Classics and the Milken Archive of Jewish Music as well as 4 cycles of the Bach cantatas (John Eliot Gardiner, Helmuth Rilling, Ton Koopman, and Masaaki Suzuki) and over 60 recordings of Beethoven's 5th symphony.
60,250 tracks of music, primarily standard repertoire. Licensed from around 32 labels, including, Arabesque, ASV, EMI, Hyperion, Hänssler, and Smithsonian Folkways. Additional labels forthcoming. Highlights include the Complete Liszt piano music and Complete Schubert songs on Hyperion, Complete Chopin piano music on Arabesque (Ohlsson); Complete Bach cantatas (Rilling) and Beethoven symphonies (Norrington) on Hännsler, and Alfred Brendel's 1st Beethoven sonata cycle (Vox)
20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1,850 albums. Over 500 jazz artists are represented. Comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Fantasy has the world's deepest jazz catalog and offers the very best in blues and R&B.
DRAM (formerly the Database of Recorded American Music)
DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI), Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable Music labels. Currently, there are over 3000 CDs.
Video
A performing arts video library with over 300 operas, ballets, documentaries, and concerts.. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus Musik, DaCapo, EuroArts, Medici Arts, and TDK, among others, and is continuously updated. For additional information, consult the Naxos Video Library Handbook (pdf).
Score
Over 300,000 pages of sheet music from over 35,000 works including the complete piano music of Chopin, all the songs of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, all the organ music of J. S. Bach, and the complete orchestra works of Beethoven and Brahms. Also includes all the individual orchestral parts to over 600 standard repertoire works.
Naxos Music Library Sheet Music
Naxos Music Libray Sheet Music (powered by FreeHandMusic.com) currently offers 45,000 editions of classical music and jazz: including the whole range of classical composers from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to Strauss, Albéniz and Debussy; classical and jazz artists, including Chick Corea, James Galway, and Steven Isserlis; and 1000s of original sheet music editions from Universal Edition, Hans Sikorski, Chanterelle, Pizzicato, Zen-On, Oxford University Press and many others. Read the FAQ.
Other Online Score Resources
International Music Score Library Project or Petrucci Music Library
Contributor-supported wiki (public domain material only)
Sibley Music Library
Public domain scores from the Library collection