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Below are my favorite places to download classical music. Each website is free to use, and when seen as a whole, these sources have well over 10,000 downloads, mostly in the MP3 format. Whether you're looking for Mozart and Bach or a more recent composer, you'll find it all here.
Classic Cat is hands down the best place to find free classical music downloads because it's home to 7,000 listings. It provides searches by genre, instrument, composer, and performer and offers a list of the 150 most popular works. There's also a list of the Visitor's Favorites off to the side of every page.
This is their long-term goal in providing these downloads:
...for all major classical works for which the copyrights have expired there should be performances available under a very liberal license: no non-commercial limitation, freedom to integrate in your own composition and no obligation for attribution or share-alike.
One thing I don't like is that none of the music is actually housed on Classic Cat. You're taken to other websites to download the tracks. Every download, therefore, has a slightly different process to it. This also increases the likelihood that you'll run into broken download links, though they say there are regular link check to avoid that, so that's great.
Free Music Archive (FMA) is another site with tons of free classical music downloads, to the tune of more than 6,000.
These downloads are spread across over dozens of pages, but you can sort the list by artist name, track, album, and genre, as well as by date added and "Most Interesting."
To listen to something, use the play button next to the song. To download the MP3, select the download button to the right and log in to your account.
A user account lets you add songs to a playlist and play them directly from the browser. But even without an account, all songs are streamable before you download them.
Pixabay is an extremely popular site for free images, but they also have copyright-free music that you can download in seconds. You can search for something, browse the list manually, and sort the list to find the latest or trending downloads.
In over two dozen genres are hundreds of free classical music downloads at Chosic. This website hosts lots of other music, too, but the classical downloads are on their own page with their sub-genres, such as cinematic, piano, dramatic, dark, patriotic, and sweet.
You can also filter the results so that only songs of a specific duration are listed, or music that requires no attribution.
Internet Archive has a vast collection of all types of media, including classical music. Most of it can be downloaded in the MP3 format, and sometimes OGG and others.
The only downside to using this site is that it's hard to know where to start your search. There are countless collections that include classical music, but here are a few ideas:
•A general "classical music" search
•1000 Years of Classical Music
Wikipedia might not be the first place people go for free classical music downloads, but the site offers a big selection.
The music is organized in a table by composer name. Either scroll through the pages or sort by the name or year the piece was added to the list. The bottom of each letter page is where you can access other downloads.
Musopen has thousands of free classical music downloads from virtually any composer. It also has a ton of free sheet music available.
It's easy to find downloads from any composer. You can also browse by time period, mood, length, rating, or instrument. If you want to explore new music, check out the online radio that pulls up random music for you to stream.
Streaming directly from the site is available for everyone, but a free user account is required for downloads.
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Another way to get classical music is through online radio stations. For example, the AccuRadio Classical page lists several relevant radio stations, like Avant Garde Classical and All-American Classical.
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- Puccini: Turandot. Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot), Jonas Kaufmann (Calaf), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Michele Pertusi (Timur), Michael Spyres (Altoum), Mattia Olivieri (Ping), Gregory Bonfatti (Pang), Siyabonga Maqungo (Pong), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano.
- Bach: Goldberg Variations. Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) With the exception of the ‘Black Pearl’ variation, which lasts almost ten minutes, this is one of the fastest sets I have ever heard, yet it’s also one of the most enjoyable.
- Transcendental: Daniil Trifonov plays Franz Liszt. Daniil Trifonov (piano) Trifonov’s approach is to search out through rounded and constantly beautiful piano tone the music’s pre-Debussyian side – a legitimate take on Liszt’s radical streak, keeping any risk of meretricious...
- New,Shadows of My Ancestors. Behzod Abduraimov (piano) His account of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet suite affords further evidence that he is one of the world’s most accomplished poets of the keyboard, and I have never heard ‘Ondine’ so dainty and...
We list nearly 150,000 classical albums for download covering a wide spectrum from opera to ballet, symphonies to concertos, contemporary to early music. We offer both MP3 and FLAC formats for download, which each have their own merits - we also offer over 23,000 Hi-Res Studio Quality downloads which you can browse separately.
Classic Cat - the free classical music directory. Index of free Classical Music downloads on the internet. Sorted by composer and work.
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