Classical Archives
http://www.classicalarchives.com/
Fittingly named “The Ultimate Classical Music Destination,” Classical Archives caters to the passionate classical music appreciator. This website gives its visitors wide access to its enormous archive of classical music online. The best feature of this website is how easy it is to simply browse for music. There are many ways to sort selections: by period, performer, composer, or keyword. Each of these sorting options is available for further selection at every step of a viewer’s search. This makes it so that whether one is searching specifically for a title or just browsing through whatever interests them, the listener can always find the perfect track.
This website is particularly useful to students of music. Providing simple access to anything and everything they are studying, this site also allows the user to just as easily look into related music and performances or perhaps something that a teacher mentioned. There is also a fun and interesting scrolling bar at the top of the site that updates to show the most popular tracks that have been listened to recently. The website also features and sells CDs of various classical artists and performances from past decades to the present. Free users only get access to 60 seconds of each track in the archive; subscriptions are required for full access and cost $7.99/month or $87.89/year, granting access to the full track. There is a 10% discount off for purchases, and downloaded either a computer, tablets or a smart phone.
by Olivia Lin
Fittingly named “The Ultimate Classical Music Destination,” Classical Archives caters to the passionate classical music appreciator. This website gives its visitors wide access to its enormous archive of classical music online. The best feature of this website is how easy it is to simply browse for music. There are many ways to sort selections: by period, performer, composer, or keyword. Each of these sorting options is available for further selection at every step of a viewer’s search. This makes it so that whether one is searching specifically for a title or just browsing through whatever interests them, the listener can always find the perfect track.
This website is particularly useful to students of music. Providing simple access to anything and everything they are studying, this site also allows the user to just as easily look into related music and performances or perhaps something that a teacher mentioned. There is also a fun and interesting scrolling bar at the top of the site that updates to show the most popular tracks that have been listened to recently. The website also features and sells CDs of various classical artists and performances from past decades to the present. Free users only get access to 60 seconds of each track in the archive; subscriptions are required for full access and cost $7.99/month or $87.89/year, granting access to the full track. There is a 10% discount off for purchases, and downloaded either a computer, tablets or a smart phone.
by Olivia Lin
