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Help with Naxos Music Library

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Find Your Database

Start at the library home page, and click the Databases tab at left. Click the initial letter of the database you are looking for in the A-Z listing, or browse the titles on the page. Click the name of the database you are looking for.

Access the Naxos Music Library to stream over 1.5 million tracks consisting of classical, jazz, blues, and other genres. 

Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 136,240 CDs with more than 2,108,400 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.

The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs plus the complete catalogs or selected titles from over 650 record labels, with more labels joining every month. Along with classical music, jazz, world, and pop/rock are also represented.

The contents can be searched by composer, work, genre and label; by keyword search; and by a sophisticated advanced search engine with up to 11 combined search criteria. (So you really can turn it up to 11.) In addition to allowing subscribers to listen to recordings, NML provides liner notes for many recordings. Listeners can create personalized playlists or use predefined Naxos Music Library playlists. Naxos also offers playlists for graded music exams (ABRSM, Trinity/Guildhall) in various categories and grades.

Searching in Naxos Music Library

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The Resources page in Naxos Music Library

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