Saturday, January 23, 2010

Classical Listening Resources

If you are following this blog, I thought you might like to use a few of the same resources I am, and hopefully suggest a few I don’t know about.

Pandora
User-friendly free (40hrs or less per month) online music service. Select a piece of music for more accurate suggestions and you can thumbs up or down something. It also gives you the opportunity to add other songs or artists for variety. The classical selection is not as strong as last.fm

Last.fm
A free radio service that plays music based on your interest in artists or songs similar to Pandora. It has significantly better research on the artists and music. Its Clkassical selection is good.

Instant Encore
A recently developed website to build an audience for classical music. They have a wonderful variety of live performances from all over the world. You can search for music, conductors or performers and make your own queue of music to listen to for free.

Live streaming NPR Stations


NPR Classical 50
“Critic Ted Libbey and host Fred Child recommend 50 essential recordings for everyone from first-timers to fanatics.“

If you have other ideas for me, please let me know!

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