Naxos Music Library (NML) is the world´s largest online classical music library.
The NML offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 650 record labels. Along with classical music, jazz, world, and pop/rock are also represented. (3 simultaneous user limit)
Streaming audio of contemporary jazz recordings from Scandinavia, the United States, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. (Access only to the Contemporary Jazz section of the general Naxos Music Library..)
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Opus/Catalog Numbers
You can try searching for the opus/catalog number (e.g. BWV 22) of an individual piece. Most, but not all, library records list these numbers in the record for that recording or score. If searching by the catalog number does not retrieve the desired recording, try searching by the composer and several words from the title.
To find opus/catalog numbers, one authoritative source is the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (part of Oxford Music Online), searching for the composer name and works.
Example Searching in OneSeach for recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach
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The OneSearch record for Gustav Leonhardt's harpsichord recording for Bach's Goldberg Variations does not list any BWV or titles of individual pieces. It will only be retrieved by searching for general terms like Bach and harpsichord.
Goldberg Variations by Without a BVW Number:
The OneSearch entry for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion oratorio does not list any BWV numbers (and in addition it only lists the title in German - Matthäus-Passion). To find this item in OneSearch, you need to search for terms like Bach, Chicago Symphony, Solti, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Matthäus-Passion.
Matthäus-Passion by
Armenian Music Through the Ages
Hagopian is a virtuoso on the ’ud (oud), a principal instrument of Armenian, Turkish, and Arab musical traditions. Included in his repertory are both Armenian classical and folk styles, which in the U.S. have received little exposure outside of the Armenian community. This National Heritage Fellowship award winner and his small ensemble perform 13 brilliant selections. "Serenity and dignity on first hearing.... Behind that veil, however...tension and passion smoulder in the deep."
Baptist Shouts and Gospel Songs by 
Blues Routes: Heroes and Tricksters: Blues and Jazz Work Songs and Street Music
Blues Routes is a resonant almanac of blues styles and blues-related music and musicians including: Memphis barrelhouse and Harlem parlor piano players; blues guitarists from the Delta and Piedmont, San Francisco and Chicago; Kansas City and New Orleans jazz masters; hambone call-and-response and Mardi Gras Indian chants; Texas jump blues and Louisiana Creole zydeco; minstrel and jazz banjomen; street go-go bucket-drummers and railroad track-lining gandy dancers. In this fin de siècle collection, the diversity of American blues and blues-influenced styles and the unity of their African ancestral heartbeats can be heard in great performances recorded live at the influential Folk Masters concert and radio series.
Brotando del Silencio - Breaking Out of the Silence by
"The history and oppression experienced by the woman of La Raza -'the Latin woman' - in the United States are not well-known, even in these years when so much is heard about women’s liberation. By ‘La Raza’ we mean the dominant population of the American continent, the people who are racial mixture of native Indian, European and African. For us, the women of La Raza includes Chicanas, Puerto Ricans, women from Central and South America. Our national or cultural backgrounds may vary but we have more in common than difference..."
Chinese Classical Instrumental Music
The Chinese Cultural Theater Group re-creates as closely as possible the highly crafted court and religious music that reached its peak during the T’ang Dynasty (seventh to tenth centuries A.D.). Musicians use traditional instruments, including the pi-p’a (a plucked string instrument similar to a mandolin), the hsiao (a flute-like instrument with a nasal quality) and the erh-hu (a two-stringed fiddle).
Classic African-American Ballads
Hildegard Of Bingen: O eterne Deus (arr. M. Roelofs for piano) (Amare)
Indian music of the Southwest. by
Recorded and produced by Laura Boulton (1899–1980), an American ethnomusicologist, this collection of songs includes music from rituals in several tribes from Arizona, New Mexico, and the northern region of Mexico. Mostly male voices perform all of the songs either solo or in chorus, accompanied by rattles, bells, or drums. The liner notes contain in-depth descriptions of the rituals of which the songs are a part, in addition to other cultural context.
Karajan: Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Decca (Complete) - Offenbach to Ponchielli
The Mississippi River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi
This two-hour, 36 track, musical journey down the Mississippi from the headwaters to the delta captures the power and diversity of American music in the late 20th century. The music, recorded between 1995 and 1997 in small towns and large cities along the river, reflects centuries of interaction and experimentation along America’s great waterway.
Navajo songs / recorded by Laura Boulton in 1933 and 1940. by
Recorded Aug. 13, 1940 in Thoreau, N.M. (1st-2nd works), Aug. 17-Sept. 1940 in Arizona (3rd-13th works), and Aug.-Sept. 1933 at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition (14th-19th works).
Rolas de Aztlán: Songs of the Chicano Movement
Songs of struggle, hope, and vision fueled the Chicano Movement's quest for civil rights, economic justice, and cultural respect. Rolas de Aztlán (songs from the Chicano ancestral homeland) spotlights 19 milestone recordings made between 1966 and 1999 by key Chicano artist/activistsDaniel Valdez, Los Lobos del Este de Los Angeles (later Los Lobos), Agustín Lira and Teatro Campesino, Los Alacranes Mojados, Conjunto Aztlan, and many more! 40-page booklet with extensive liner notes and photos.
Smithsonian folkways world music collection.
¡Viva el Mariachi!: Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos
A traditionalist and a visionary, Nati Cano has both mirrored and shaped the history of mariachi music. He and Los Camperos, the group he founded and directs, have been a fixture in the Los Angeles area and a driving force in the mariachi tradition in North America for more than forty years. His longtime association with Linda Ronstadt, backing her up in live performances and on her milestone Canciones de Mi Padre album, helped catapult mariachi music to unprecedented national prominence. In this collection of newly issued material, Cano and Los Camperos perform some of mariachi's most beloved songs with the vibrancy and intensity that distinguish them as one of the finest mariachi bands in the world.
Selected recordings added to the NAXOS service:
