Launched in 2004 as an online streaming service and educational resource for classical music, the Naxos Music Library catalogue has expanded over the years and now offers subscribers access to a milestone three million tracks. The portal has always focused both on music streaming and on context, with each track meticulously annotated for supporting information about the repertoire and the performers. This integrated database and streaming service continues to grow and delight users with the consistency of its unique construction.

‘The Naxos Music Library has become an indispensable tool for musicians and the public. With its extraordinary catalogue of recordings, the library offers all of us a chance to listen to both familiar and unusual selections. The Naxos Music Library is truly remarkable.’

– Leonard Slatkin, Conductor laureate

The Naxos Music Library is one of the leading streaming services for classical music in the education sector. Millions of listeners worldwide can use it free of charge for educational purposes via institutions such as libraries, universities, colleges, conservatories and schools. Individuals also have the opportunity to access the world's largest online classical music archive through a personal user account, with either a monthly or annual subscription.

The Naxos Music Library contains both standard and niche works from the entire classical repertoire. From Mediaeval music to Baroque, Classical, Romantic and contemporary works, virtually everything is represented. In addition to Naxos, more than one thousand other labels have added their recordings to the portal, introducing hundreds of new albums each month.

Naxos
8.660561-62

Sony Classical
196872146462

Signum Classics
SIGCD910

Warner Classics
5021732409485

Deutsche Grammophon
00028948659128

The Naxos Music Library also caters to a range of additional areas of interest, including work analyses, a music dictionary, an aural training programme, a musicology platform for sharing the latest research, libretti and study guides.

Opera Synopses

Dictionary

Listen! Aural Training Tests

Audiobooks Transcriptions

Work Analyses

‘Without question, the Naxos Music Library is the most important artistic tool in the life of the Buffalo Philharmonic. We plan hundreds of concerts each year, and the ability to hear pieces within seconds (with excellent programme notes and all other relevant details) is of the greatest value. I can compare recordings from orchestras around the world, and from historic archives to the latest performances.

Our musicians use the Naxos Music Library for rehearsal preparation, and I often recommend it to other orchestras and colleagues who want suggestions of pieces, composers or performers. It is an astounding, essential and inspiring library – most highly recommended!’

– JoAnn Falletta, Music Director, Buffalo Philharmonic