List of Website Resources

[mc ukrneal]

I finally got tired of searching for various sites all over this forum, so I have tried my hand at consolidating them. I really don't have the time to include everything (hence the two sites at the end, but wanted a place where I could find the sites easily). Hopefully, you find this helpful. I know this is not complete, so if you have suggestions to add, I'd be willing to add them (though it may not be immediately).

Classical CD Reviews (some of these are pay sites, but I include them too)
Allmusic
Audiophile audition
Classical Net
Classical Source
Classics Today
Fanfare
Flying Inkpot
Gramophone
International Record Review
Musicweb

Buying CDs (mainstream)
Abeille Musique : France
Alapage : France
Allegro: Opera D'oro and others
Amazon: UK Germany France: Can add others as needed, but they are seemingly endless
Arkiv Music
Barnes and Noble
Berkshire: The Place to start (such great prices)
La Bottega Discantica: Italy
Buywell: Australia
CD Universe
Crotchet: UK
Europadisc: UK
FNAC: France
HB Direct
JPC: Germany
J&R
MDT: UK
Presto Classical
Tower
Zweiausendeins

Buying CDs (Secondary)
CD Connection
CD Japan
CD Muisc CZ: Czech
Classical CD Exchange
Ebay
Import CDs
HMV Japan
Movie Mars
Newbury Comics
Swap a CD
Norbeck, Peters & Ford
CDON
Records International

Downloads/Streams
Classics Online
eClassical
Naxos Direct
Passionato
Spotify

CD Companies (producers)
Aeon
Alia Vox
Arta Records
Audite
BIS
Brilliant
Cantus Records
Capriccio
Carus
Chandos
Channel Classics
Dacapo
Decca
DG: Also see Decca
Divine Art
Dutton
ECM
Fuga Libera
EMI : Includes Virgin too
Genesis
Glossa
Halle
Harmonia Mundi
Hyperion
LSO Live
Lyrita
MDG
Melodiya
Naive
Naxos: Marco Polo and other labels can be found here as well
Nimbus
Ondine
Onyx
Opera Rara
Parnassus
Pentatone
Philips: Same site as Decca
Qualiton
Regis
Ricercar
Simax
Sony
Sterling
Supraphon
Telarc
Testament
Toccata
Tudor
Warner Classics and Jazz
Zig Zag

Webcasts and recordings
World Concert Hall
Martha Argerich at Lugano

Other Useful Sites
Amazon Price Tracker
Another Amazon Price Tracker
GetCDPrices: Useful for finding UPC codes (and less so for finding prices)

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[Opus106]

Many thanks for compiling this list. I'll make sure to add to it if I come across something new and useful.

[Harry]

Yes very helpful, thank you

[Brahmsian]

Has anyone gone to Allmusic.com lately??  It totally changed it's format, and is completely useless now. 

[Octo_Russ]

What about eBay?, my No1 source for recorded music.

[eyeresist]

Has anyone gone to Allmusic.com lately??  It totally changed it's format, and is completely useless now. 

When I search for classical music reviews, Google tries to give me a plethora of Allmusic pages for its answer. So I have to add "-allmusic" to the search criteria - problem solved.

[Opus106]

Has anyone gone to Allmusic.com lately??  It totally changed it's format, and is completely useless now. 

Useless in what way? They have 'modernised' the site's appearance, yes. Their search sucks, as always; so I use Google to search it when I'm looking for info. on works.

"<search string> site:allmusic.com/work"

[rickardg]

A few weeks ago I stumbled on a site that listed up coming classical live webcasts mostly from radio stations, but now I can't seem to find it. Does anyone know which site it is (I think the background of the web page was a stage with curtains, but I'm not sure about that).

Also, does anyone know of websites that list webcasts and recordings of newly composed classical music?

[radi]

A few weeks ago I stumbled on a site that listed up coming classical live webcasts mostly from radio stations, but now I can't seem to find it. Does anyone know which site it is (I think the background of the web page was a stage with curtains, but I'm not sure about that).

http://www.worldconcerthall.com/

-r

[Opus106]

http://www.worldconcerthall.com/

-r

What a wonderful find! Thanks. I posted about a similar concert-streaming service before. Will have to dig through my threads to find the link.

[rickardg]

http://www.worldconcerthall.com/

-r

Great, bookmarked! Thank you very much.

I wonder why my google-fu failed me in this case, though...

[Marcel]

http://melody.su/en/ - really low prices for some digital downloads.. experience anyone?

[flyingdutchman]

Passionato link dead.

[Turner]

I did not know this useful page, thank you.

Should an update, based on some further member contributions, be considered?

[Gurn Blanston]

I did not know this useful page, thank you.

Should an update, based on some further member contributions, be considered?

You, and anyone else, is welcome to add to this list as you discover things.