Gilmore Music Library

The albums are from Vox Music, Bridge Records, Cantolopera, Mode Records, Newport Classic, and more.

Example of new albums include:

* Young Brendel: The Vox Years
* Katie Zhukov: Six Profiles of Australian Women Composers
* Cowell: Dancing with Henry: New Discoveries in the Music of Henry Cowell
* Gerald Finley/Stephen Ralls: Songs of Travel
* Feldman: Late Works with Clarinet
* Laurence Lesser, Haesun Paik: Beethoven, The Complete Music for Piano and Cello

Classical Music Library now includes 4,298 albums and 65,701 tracks, and is growing regularly.

The new additions will go live in January 2011 and will bring the total number of journals in the Archive to 76. This number will grow to 100 by January 2013.

American Musical Journal (New York, 1834-1835)
Gazzetta musicale di Milano (Milan, 1842-1862, first half)
Echo Muzyczne(Warsaw, 1879-1882)
Muzïkal’noye obozrenie [The Musical Review] (St. Petersburg, 1885-1888)
Musikalisches Wochenblatt (Berlin, 1791-1792)
L'Année musicale(Paris, 1911-1913)
Modern Music (New York, 1924-1946)

Check out this Thanksgiving playlist, mostly from the American Song collection. Listen to Vince Guaraldi’s Thanksgiving Theme from Charlie Brown’s Holiday Hits, a classic bango rendition of Turkey in the Straw from Rounder Records, Pete Seeger, Aaron Copland, and other fun stuff!

Click Here to listen to the playlist.

Enjoy "A Very Jazzy Christmas" on Alexander Street Databases from "Christmas Time Is Here" performed by Vince Guaraldi to "Christmas In New Orleans" performed by Louis Armstrong or "Christmas Island" performed by Ella Fitzgerald. Click here to start listening...

The Naxos Music Library Android App will be live and available in the Android Market on December 27th, 2010. The App allows you to browse, stream, and enjoy the entire NML - not just a specific track or playlist! More details are available here...

The ever growing Alexander Street just released a large amount of new albums on American Song and Contemporary World Music. Albums on American Song come from a wide variety of labels including Daptone Records, JSP Records, Acrobat, GNP Crescendo, and many more. Newly released artists and ensembles include Otis Grand, Ike & Tina Turner, Eddie Dean, Bill Haley, Gene Autry, Rudy Vallee, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Willie Nelson, Mahalia Jackson, John Denver, James Brown & The Famous Flames, The Highwaymen, and many more. On Contemporary World Music, Alexander Street rolled out 10,266 albums (132,667 tracks) from a wide variety of labels and genres, including reggae, acoustic folk, Afro-Cuban, belly dance, banda, dub, drinking songs, hip-hop, Italian folk, Indian classical, world beat, and many more.

30 hours of performances and documentaries to Opera in Video. The new content includes:
- Cardiff Singer of the World competition highlights from 1999 and 2001
- Recital of arias by Karita Mattila and Dmitri Hvorostovsky
- Welsh National Opera's performance of Monteverdi's Poppea
- Recital by Angela Gheorghiu at the Royal Opera House
- Lucia di Lammermoor (Vienna), featuring Katia Ricciarelli and Jose Carreras

Access the database here...

The complete EMI Classics catalog will soon be available online to the Yale community. Naxos Music Library announced this morning that it started adding a vast catalog of recordings that includes EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, and Blue Note Records. Today, more than 225 albums are available in NML with the remainder of the 7200 album catalog available by the end of 2011. More details available here...

The library has a trial subscription to Naxos Video Library (NVL) until October 31st, 2011. The NVL contains more than 1290 full-length videos from 28 different publishing houses. The content includes classical music in large part (opera, ballet, theatre, jazz, concerts, competitions, documentaries, master classes, and lectures), but also includes feature films about religious figures and topics, an extensive series of films relating to geography and world monuments, Fine Arts, Musical Journeys (e.g., Beijing, Tuscany, Uzbekistan), and much more. Please let us know of your interest for this database at: musiclibrary@yale.edu

Naxos Video Library’s Trial Access via: http://yale.naxosvideolibrary.com/
(Use VPN from Off-Campus)

Blue Note Records, established in New York by German-born record executive Alfred Lion and art director Francis Wolff in 1939, is a renowned jazz label that has produced a number of legendary albums including John Coltrane's "Blue Train" and other classic albums from iconic artists such as Herbie Hancock, Jackie McLean, Dexter Gordon, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter and many others. The label is revered by jazz fans across the globe. Throughout the fifties and early sixties and continuing for the next five decades, Blue Note continues to discover and launch impressive talents to a new level.

Access the Naxos Music Library Jazz @ http://yale.naxosmusiclibrary.com/jazz/

Oxford Bibliographies Online is a tool designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information quickly by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. This fantastic resource contains substantial coverage for music. It is a good starting point for organizing a research plan, or for preparing a writing assignment or syllabus. The style and approach is accessible to students, but the depth of coverage makes it of great use to faculty as well. Access this trial by clicking here...

459 albums or 8,384 tracks were added into Classical Music Library from a wide variety of labels, including new releases from Haenssler Classics, Mode Records, Bridge, Vox, and Wirripang. New material includes compositions by Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Arnold Bax, Gustav Mahler, Charles Koechlin, Wolfgang Rihm, Elliott Carter, Edvard Grieg, Morton Feldman, Aldo Clementi, Antonio Salieri, Lawrence Dillon, John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, Henry Fillmore, Morton Subotnick, Ursula Mamlok, Valentin Silvestrov, Giacinto Scelsi, Toru Takemitsu, and more.

Recordings by Bjorling, Perlman, Rostropovich, Taverner Choir, Callas, Jon Vickers, Melos Ensemble, Pinchas Zuckerman, Borodin Quartet, Christoph Eschenbach, Elly Ameling, Trio Sonnerie, Alban Berg Quartett, Chung Trio, John Ogdon, and more.

Naxos Music Library, the largest collection of streaming classical, jazz, wind band, choral, classic rock and world music, surpassed one million tracks in its online catalog. Currently, the catalog includes 425 labels. In addition to its collection of streaming music NML offers liner notes, cover artwork, tracklists, instrumentation, libretti and synopses. Access the database here...

These catalogs include many great performances which have become the standard for their repertoire, such as the Barenboim Mozart Operas and Bayreuth Wagner Ring Cycle, the Harnoncourt Beethoven Symphonies and the José Serebrier Glazunov Symphonies and Concertos. On July 2nd, more than 1,000 albums from these catalogs will be available on the Naxos Music Library with the remaining albums in the catalogs and new releases appearing over the coming months.

Dozens of legendary artists have called these labels home including Chanticleer, Chloë Hanslip, Nicolai Lugansky, Beaux Arts Trio, José Carreras, Sharon Kam, Kent Nagano, Cecilia Bartoli, Charlie Siem, Boston Camerata, John Eliot Gardiner and Mstislav Rostropovich among many others. Their performances are now available to subscribers of Naxos Music Library.

The database records around 40.000 settings of the Ordinary to range from the closing years of the 14th century up to the present day. In addition to general information on the works and fundamental biographic data, it also contains information on the source material and modern editions for every individual composition. It is now accessible on: www.mdb.uni-mainz.de

Alexander Street Press has just added 647 albums (10,519 tracks) to Classical Music Library. Most notable is the addition of 316 albums from Decca and Deutsche Grammophon. Among the new content are: Beethoven’s Fidelio with Birgit Nilsson, Lorin Maazel and the Wiener Philharmoniker; Mozart Symphonies with the Academy of Ancient Music and Christopher Hogwood; Bellini’s Norma with Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, and Marilyn Horne; Musicals, including Victor/Victoria, Jesus Christ Superstar, Tell Me on a Sunday, Mamma Mia, etc. Plus artists and ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, Carlos Kleiber, Cecilia Bartoli, Sumi Jo, Julie Andrews, Anna Netrebko, Christoph Eschenbach, Barbara Bonney, Lang Lang, and more. Tune in here...

In the coming weeks Naxos Music Library-Jazz will make available the catalog of Warner Jazz which, includes the recordings from Warner Bros., Atlantic, Elektra, and Reprise. More than 2,000 albums will become available. Check it out here...

Through 8 March 2013, all students, faculty, and staff may access Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II by going directly to: http://anthtrial.alexanderstreet.com. You must be on campus or use VPN off-campus to view.

Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II contains 157 videos including archival and current material. Issues such as environmental crises, refugee migration, and endangered languages are well documented, and every sub-discipline of anthropology is be represented, including cultural, linguistic, applied, social, visual, urban, medical, and physical anthropologies, as well as archaeology.

The collection includes contemporary films from partners such as ZED, the BBC, and RAI, as well as targeted content from Documentary Educational Resources and key archives including the Grenada Centre of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.