Classical music soundfile links

See also the hosting and the cd shops sections.
1. Streaming music and low res soundfiles
2. Podcasts
3. Music with little or no copy rights

1. Streaming music and low res soundfiles

Hear the choirs sing
A bit like Classic Cat, but then for choirs only. Contains references for about 300 choirs. Songs are ordered by song name. Most songs are not classical.

Classical Connect
Hundreds of performers. Only streaming audio.

Polina Osetinskaya
Several hours of real audio piano music by this Russian performer.

Cité de la Musique
This French concert hall offers many concert recordings (streaming audio) and videos.

Art of the States
Music from American composers in real audio. A lot of complete works.

sirventes berlin
Profi-Vokalensemble sirventes berlin under the guidance of Stefan Schuck provides some 50-100 classical (church) songs and organmusic. Registration required. Additionally you will find streaming audio in the menu under Tonarchiv.

Martha Argerich Project
Click on Works to get in. You will find a rich trove of realaudio files sorted by composer, played by many different pianists.

Krzysztof Pelech
A polish guitarist with quite a few mp3s (wrapped by m3u files).

Haydn Youth String Orchestra
An ensemble from the North of the Netherlands. You can stream the all the cd's from the cd page. 19 complete cd's with symphonies and concertos from many composers. 128 kbps. With some trouble you can download the music too.

Gilad Karni
A violinist with a flash site on which you can find some mp3s.

CHARM
Some 150 historical recordings of Schubert songs. Many different artists. 80kbps mp3s.

Borletti-Buitoni Trust
This trust is committed to helping young concert artists. One of their tools is a yearly competition. They have quite a few streaming audio's from supported artists.

Benjamin Laur
5 songs from this baritone. Embedded audio only.

Tickets-of-Russia
A small collection of popular mp3 files.

Hannah Shields
Some 30 flash musictracks from this American pianist. On some she is accompanied by violin, viola or a trio.

William East Quire
13 mp3s composed by William East of Waltham (1670-1758) or from his song books.

Gideon Rubin
Some 30 tracks from this Los Angeles pianist. 48 kbps wma files.

Robert Henry
A American pianist with a flash site and quite a few classical mp3s.

Monsegur Vaillant
The soprano and pianist Monsegur Vaillant has a large collection of songs. Clicking on a link below "title" will let you hear the song and show you the song text.

Organs and organists online
Many organ mp3s. You need to register first (no costs) before you can see what they have.

Dino Mastroyiannis
32kbps wma and rm files on this website of the Greek pianist Dino Mastroyiannis.

Stars of Bulgarian Opera and Additional Singers
A collection of 32kbps opera songs, sung by Bulgarian singers.

Ensemble Vocal Pythagore
An a capella choir from France singing Victoria, Guerrrero, Schütz, Tallis, Purcell and other. 80kbps.

Agnieszka Marucha
A polish violinist with 13 streaming audio tracks.

Magazzini Sonori
An Italian magazine site with a lot of streaming audio.

Piano World: member recordings
A section of the forum of Piano World where members can post links to their recordings.

Manhattanville College
Quite a few movements of sonatas and other major classical works. All in WMA format.

Bulgarian National Radio opera recording
A must for the opera lover: many hours of opera music at 56kbps mp3s.

Russian classical music archive
This quite large site is in Russian only. But if you move the mouse over the links you will that many of the filenames are english. They provide streaming audio only (Realaudio and m3u files) and give as a bonus pdf's of many of the music pieces.

Huberman.info
This website in the honour of violinist Bronislaw Huberman (1882-1947) offers a collection of historical recordings (wma files at 20 kbps). You need to register first before you can access them.

Fulda Symphonic Orchestra
The content of 4 of their cds in high resolution (175kbps) Ogg format.

Eloy Cortinez
Here you find Bach’s cello suites 1,2,3 played on recorder. It is in the form of a cd image (363 MB!). The access is a bit complicated: you click on "Bach CD", then you have to register yourself and immediately after that you can login with the same name and password to the page with the cd image.

The 5 Browns
In flash menu you can find some tracks of the latest cd of The 5 Browns: 2 brothers and 3 sisters who all play on the piano simultaneously.

Sebastian Diezig
A cello player from Switzerland with some streaming audio.

Bel Cantati
Bel Cantanti, an opera company within the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area devoted to giving performance experience to both seasoned and aspiring professionals. They have quite a few 80kbps mp3s on several recording pages (like this and this). The mp3s are under the big red dots before the song names.

Classical Music on the Russian web
A large collection of 48kbps mps mostly from Russian composers.

Chambermusic.Ru
A website with pages for different Russian performers. Each performer has also one big soundfile (128kbps; aound 10 minutes) of some welknown classical piece. Unfortunately the site is in Russian only.

Web Concert Hall Archive
A big collection of mostly 96kbps classical soundfiles (some also in Real Audio). Some newer music has a higher baudrate. This collection contains many longer works.

mFiles
A collection of 32 kbps mp3s from this classical website.

Karadar
Karadar has a big collection of downloadable mp3s. However, you need to do quite a few things on their site (including answering a quiz) before you arrive at the music. Most people will get stranded on the road, but it is worth the effort.

AVRO luisterkamer
The listening room of a dutch broadcaster. It offers streaming audio in wma format on subpages.

Archive.org Audio
Public domain songs. You have to take some time seeking as they have no special section for classical. They have famous singers of the past like Caruso, but these are old recordings with quite some background noise.

American Mavericks
Ram files from new American composers, including Copland, Gershwin and Ellington.

Arkadia Trio
A colection of 96 kbps mp3s from this Italian trio.

Bach Cantatas Website
A comprehensive site covering all aspects of J.S. Bach's cantatas and his other vocal works. Contains discussions and detailed discographies of each cantata and other vocal works, performers and general topics. The site is an international collective project, being compiled from various postings about the subject, most of which have been sent to the Bach Cantatas Mailing List.

Early Music Chicago
A collection of mostly 64 kbps soundtracks and clips by a variety of groups.

Parker Harps
Harp music by Mike Parker

Kirill Korsunenko pianist
A small collection of 64 kbps mp3s from this pianist.

Classical Music Online
A Russian site with about 100 fragments.

Sasha Boldachev harpist
A child prodigy who plays the harp: 64 kbps mp3s.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Beispielen
Historical recording of a German singer: 32 kbps mp3s.

Muslim Magomaev
A Russian bariton with over 100 mp3s of classical, russian and azeri songs. Baudrate: 56kbps.

Classical Music mp3 page
A dutch link page with links to many classical mp3 sites. The most extensive of its kind on the internet.

Russian church music links
The descriptions on this linksite are in Dutch. But the collection is so extensive that you will get over that if you like Russian church music.

www.classicaonline.com
An Italian site with quite some music to download. The music is packed as zip-files.

Singingfish Audio Video Search
This is a quite good search engine for sound files. Go to the advanced search if you don't want real audio and wav or if you want to set a minimum length. In contrast to most other music search engines this one specializes in legal music. Small disadvantage: you can't provide more than one argument.

OnClassical
A classical music hosting site, where subscribers can download complete cd's. You can listen to demo tracks at 21kbps wma.

Claudio Colombo
An Italian pianist with many 24kbps mp3s. You can buy 192kbps versions of the same music.

Opus 100
A big collection of 32 kbps ram files, sorted by composer.

Royalty Free Music
A medium-size collection of royalty free music. A small part of it is Classical. Click on one of the collections at the top of the page to get started. 256 kbps mp3, but download may be a little slow.

Classical Singer
This site gives singers the possibility to have their own webpage. Some have a few mp3s.

Retroportal
Warning: this page is only in cyrillic (Russian), but if you move the mouse over the mp3 links you can get some idea what the music is about. About 200 classical mp3s at 32 kbps.

American memory and Performing Arts Digital Library
The Library of Congress has an extensive collection of resources. But you need some time to find your way.

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
This is a collection of recordings from around 1900. Some classical - most not. Sound quality in those times was rather mediocre, but you can definitely hear that some of those performers were at the top.

FindSounds.com
Do you want to know how a trombone sounds, or a skylark or a chain saw? Then this is the search engine to use.

The Red Ferret Journal
Under the slogan "1 Million Free & Legal Music Tracks!" this Wiki page lists many sites with free music. Not much classical though.

Free Samples and Sounds
A collection of sound samples that you may use in commercial and non-commercial projects - but not in advertisements.

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2. Podcasts

Gardner Museum
Beethoven Fest
Deutsche Welle
WGBH Radio from Boston

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3. Music with little or no copy rights
The websites below contain music that carries little or no copy right and may be suitable for inclusion in your projects. As copying is allowed many of these sites carry the same music. My advice is to find the source as only there you will find the notes on copy rights. Be aware that only a part of the music is really public domain. Most has just very liberal copy rights.

Wikipedia sound list
Wikipedia has quite a lot of music. The listing is a bit clumsy. It may be specially attractive for those looking for music with few or no copyright restrictions.

Free Music Archive
This site copies it's music from other sites where that is allowed. So usually you can find the same music elsewhere.

Liber Liber
This Italian site hosts classical music from which the copyrights have expired in Italy. Whether that also applies to your country you will have to check yourself.

Gardner Museum podcasts and archive
Podcasts from concerts at the museum. Typically 128kbps mp3s of about 30 mb: 30 minutes of music. Music available under the Noncommercial-no-derivative Creative Commons license.

Internet archive audio
The Audio Archive of the Internet Archive doesn't contain very much classical music at the moment.

Musopen
Free public domain scores and recordings of music by many classical composers. Lately it is growing fast. File naming is still a bit chaotic.