Classical

Resources in this category:

Classical Music Home Page
http://www.classical.net/music/

"The purpose of this home page is to provide a point-of-entry into various informational files about classical music, as well as links to other interesting web sites." Sections include: Basic Repertoire List, Classical CD Buying Guide, Recommended Recordings, and Composer Data. Searchable.

Essentials of Music
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/

Basic information about classical music. Biographies of seventy composers, overview of the six main periods in Western music, and a glossary of terms.

GramoFile
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/

"Over 24,000 Gramophone reviews from March 1983 to March 1998 and listing of 25,000 non-reviewed discs from the Gramophone database. GramoFile is a database of classical music reviews which have appeared in Gramophone from March 1983. It enables easy access to particular reviews or collections of reviews plus a sophisticated search programme for more complicated queries. GramoFile is updated monthly, the listing of reviewed discs being three months in arrears of the published magazine i.e. the March issue is published in February, therefore the March reviews will appear on the Web site in May. New to GramoFile is the addition of the listing of 25,000 discs from the Gramophone database which have not been reviewed. These appear in A-Z record company order at the end of the reviewed discs i.e. after the most recent month."

The Lied and Song Texts Page
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/

"WWW archive of thousands of texts to Kunstlieder and other art songs in Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish."

MusicFinland.com
http://www.musicfinland.com/

Resources for Finnish popular, classical, jazz, and contemporary folk music. Artist profiles are included as well as recording reviews and audio samples.

The Opera Schedule Server
http://www.fsz.bme.hu/opera/main.html

This searchable database provides information about the programs of opera companies around the world.

Pianopedia
http://www.pianopedia.com/

A search engine for the classical piano repertoire. Users can search by composer name and nationality, work duration, date of composition, title, key/mode and instrumentation. The site also has a French version.

The J.S. Bach Homepage
http://www.jsbach.org/

A large informational site about the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Contains biographies, bibliographies, links, and a database of works indexed by instrument, title, performer/conductor, BWV number, key, year and record label.