Naxos Music Library is a streaming music service, available with your library card, that includes nearly 2.5 million tracks (over 150K discs) to listen to. Primarily "Western Art Music" from the 14th to 21st century, it also includes hundreds of film soundtracks and cast recordings of musicals, as well as content from around the world. Come explore with us!

 Reasons to Try the Naxos Music Library 

1. It's free to use with your library card (NYS residents can apply for a digital card via our SimplyE app).
2. It's also commercial-free streaming, unique in its depth and diversity. 
3. The library includes complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues, plus thousands of titles from other labels, including Chandos, BIS, Hungaroton, Hänssler, Bridge, First Edition, CPO, Coro, and Wergo.
4. There is an extensive collection of film music and musicals.
5. You can download to the app for offline listening (find help here for using the app).
6. Tracks are identified—you actually know what you’re listening to!
7. A booklet with program notes accompanies each recording (in web version).
8. You can create and share playlists.
9. The website can be navigated in eight languages—English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean (look for a globe icon at the top to change language).

• Naxos Music Dictionary with audio clips
• Naxos Musicology International, a new online platform for music scholarship and opinion
• Work Analysis for more than two dozen composers 
• Aural Training exercises for students

Who Is It For?

Anyone with an interest in classical or concert music, musical theatre and film music fans, scholars and beginners will enjoy exploring this resource. Naxos Music Library has a deep catalog, preferring to record new or little known works rather than multiple recordings of the same works. Music students now have an alternative to YouTube for free-streaming.  And aficionados will not tire of following recent additions to the Naxos Music Library (left sidebar, “New & News”)—246 in the last week.

For more tips, including how to log in with the Naxos mobile app, see Streaming Audio and Video in Music Research from Home using NYPL resources.

You can find e-books to enhance your listening, in our catalog:

• Music appreciation (OverDrive and Libby)
• Music appreciation (web resources)

Check out NYPL's playlist on Naxos:
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This post was prepared with assistance from Rebecca Littman, Managing Librarian, Music & Recorded Sound, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center