Every time I write about music, the most common phrase I repeat is "Music, now you don't even need to download it anymore, you listen to it streaming from the internet". All genres, all the music of all time can be found and listened to and heard from the PC. Obviously then from streaming you can also download to mp3 so you can transfer it to portable players and Ipods or mobile phones and this is also very easy and has become almost a trivial operation for anyone.
In this article we see some of the best sites to listen to free classical music in streaming, which collect the works of the main composers.
1) On Classical Archives there are many music divided by their composer and by type: There are symphonies, whole works, violin and piano concerts, sacred music and orchestra compositions.
Among the authors there are many even if not all of them, for example, Giuseppe Verdi and Puccini are missing for now but there are Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Paganini, Ravel, Schubert, Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Wagner and several others. The site is free, the songs are streamed from a small player in which you just have to press play and download them in mp3 format by pressing the download button next to the name of the work (by pressing the right button on "Download" choose save object with name and you do it first). Finally, from the home page, you can listen to a radio of classical music only, active 24 hours a day. You will certainly like it, not only for classical music fans but also for the youngest ones who still have to discover the best authors and musicians of the past .
2) Musopen is structured to be the largest classical music collector on the web. There are all the music and compositions whose copyright has now expired and among them are all the most famous works of musicians of all time. Anything not found on 1Classical can probably be listened to and downloaded from this site. In addition to the song, you can also read and download the score with all the notes and chords to play.
3) World Concert Hall is a website where you can listen to live concerts from opera houses all over the world. Classical music radio stations from around the world are also featured on the site.
4) Thespco is the site of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, based in Minnesota, where listening to classical music with lyrics and titles is available.
Remember that listening to Mozart helps you feel better and is therapeutic for diseases, as the Tomatis method studies, Mozart's music is rich in high frequencies and is not tiring.
