The Naxos Music Library has become an indispensable tool for musicians and the public. With its extraordinary catalogue of recordings and performances, the library offers all of us a chance to listen to both familiar and unusual selections…. The Naxos Music Library is truly remarkable.

For decades, Naxos has been a pioneer in the dissemination of classical music.  The visionary and entrepreneurial founder, Klaus Heymann, knew that greater access to classical music would naturally result in heightened interest.  The Naxos catalogue reflects unsurpassed breadth, with recordings of contemporary music from across the world and newly discovered works from past centuries.  Among the catalogue entries are many Yale School of Music faculty members, students, and the Yale Cellos.  The Naxos Music Library is one of the most important resources at Yale, as it is at other institutions.  Now a new Day One dawns, and with it the Naxos passion and commitment for making classical music available to all people continues unabated.

For many years, Naxos Music Library has been the sole subscription audio-streaming service used at the Royal Academy of Music. Peerless in scope and content, simple and reliable in use, it has always been a most dependable resource in supporting our educational needs. Understandably,  it is recognised by staff and students alike as the benchmark service in its field.

We have been using Naxos Music Library for over a decade now, and have found it to be an absolutely essential resource for our staff and students. The range of recordings is astonishingly good, and extremely easy to search and navigate. The introduction of extra resources, such as the music dictionary, aural exercises, analyses, guided tours, and the recent addition of Naxos Musicology International makes NML the complete educational package.

Access to the Naxos Music Library continues to be one of the most enriching and inspiring avenues to world-class musical performance for our students and faculty. The resources that are made available through this platform are second to none, and they give invaluable assistance to our mission of sustaining music at the forefront of what we do.

I use NML several hours daily, either with my doctoral level conducting students or when I prepare my own concerts as a conductor.  Be it from my phone, like some sort of mega-remote control for the largest classical music Wurlitzer, on the go from my iPad, or, better, from any of my computers, where I can find and compare an incredible number of different interpretations.  I have thousands of CDs at home and more at school, but I don’t touch them anymore…  Where else in the world than in NML can one find 248 versions of the Rite of Spring?

I am very excited about the collaboration that InThinking has with Naxos to support both educators and learners alike. In particular, the summary blurbs for each of the CDs are greatly helpful in providing important contextual information for the pieces and the numerous recordings of the same work allows us to compare interpretations for the performance component of the IB. Thank you all so much for your support.