Naxos Music Library access (130,000+ CDs) free with IMSLP $22/yr subscription

[jserraglio]

Subscribe to IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) for $22 (recurring/yr) or $22.80 (non-recurring/yr) and receive full access to the vast Naxos Music Library streaming service.

Offered by IMSLP since April of 2016. No catch that I could discover. https://twitter.com/imslp/status/722119931194683393 This sounds like a "deal". Would otherwise cost me $215/yr for standard sound quality if purchased directly from Naxos.

https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Subscriptions

Additionally, Martin Anderson's excellent Toccata Classics recordings are carried by the NML (Naxos Music Library).

[IcedNote]

Yeah, I signed up for this last year...and haven't logged in once to do any listening. Mainly did it to support IMSLP since it's such a fantastic resource.

-G

[jbuck919]

I'm tempted. I use IMSLP literally every single week to download my organ selections.

[jserraglio]

Let's see. $23 (non auto-renewal price) / 13O,000 CDs = $0.00018/year for access to each CD, accumulating at that price to not quite $1/yr/CD in the 5,555th year of my membership. I guess I can swing that. I use IMSLP for operas too. And the elegant Toccata Classics catalogue is thrown in as a bonus. https://toccataclassics.com/catalogue/

Sign me up.

[barney]

Yeah, I signed up for this last year...and haven't logged in once to do any listening. Mainly did it to support IMSLP since it's such a fantastic resource.

-G

And there, Gareth, you hit the nail on the head for me. I still have several hundred CDs in their cellophane wrappings, let alone taking on new sources of music. There was that terrific European opera site,which I fear I cannot right now recall, that I found with cries of elation, and haven't visited for ages. There just isn't time.
And my own collection and YouTube (especially for historical stuff) are so convenient...