Spotify set to revolutionise online listening

As our agreement with Naxos comes to an end we are delighted to promote Spotify as a fantastic new way of accessing and listening to music online.  Spotify has developed a brilliant piece of free software that gives users instant access to millions of tracks from all the major record labels.  Among them are many of the best classical recordings from all the major classical labels.  During April, 10,000 tracks from the Naxos catalogue will be added to the already impressive catalogue from Universal, EMI , Sony & others, and new additions are being added to the library every week.

To get started, click on the link below and sign up with Spotify.  You will be prompted to download and install the Spotify player.  Let us know what you think and share some of your favourite recordings and playlists in the CMH Forum!

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The Gramophone Archive

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