Programme Notes - online resources

[Daedalus]

I'm a bit of an addict for collecting programme notes. I love the historical contexts, composer biographies and anecdotes and the structural guides to the music. I particularly like book collections such as Michael Steinberg's The Symphony, which has a good writing style and often draws my attention to interesting aspects of the music or history.

With this in mind, I was just wondering if anyone knows of any good online resources for programme notes? If you do then please share them here.

Personally, I find BBC Radio Three is often a good place to start and a quick search there can often be fruitful.

Wikipedia is, dare I say it, also a reliable and useful source for programme notes, although on rare occasion it can show itself to be worth every penny it costs! 

Another subject aside, I ALWAYS collect programmes from every concert I go to and have a fair collection taking up space on one of my many bookshelves. Is anyone else as obsessive over programme collecting as I am...? Probably not...! 

Anyway, back on topic, if you have any suggestions for online collections of programme notes, then please post them up here! 

D.

[bhodges]

Carnegie Hall's website is excellent for program notes, and they are available for awhile after the concerts, too.  Here are the notes for Wednesday night's concert, an all-Bernstein evening with Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony.

--Bruce

[Guido]

Naxos have almost all of their sleeve notes online, and Hyperion also have a lot. I don't know if these fall within your field of interest, but they are of course written in a rather similar style.