Lossless classical downloads

The site is fine for searching, but not for browsing, as only the newest releases are easily visible. On the Hyperion Records Website, you can buy full discs, single tracks, and even individual works at prices relative to their length. The best example of an effective download site is that of Hyperion Records , an independent British label whose recordings I have been purchasing for many years.

Hyperion has figured out how to do downloads right. Among its more than releases, some are available as downloads. The site has an excellent search engine, where searches for artists, composers, works, or titles all provide relevant results.

You can purchase single tracks at a fair price, calculated according to their length; you can also purchase individual works, again priced fairly. Related: Ways to improve your music listening experience. As you might expect from the name, HDtracks focuses on high-resolution audio. If you know the name Qobuz, you probably know it as a streaming service. It also operates a digital storefront where you can buy lossless music instead of or in addition to streaming it.

Because of this, the catalog is a little smaller than 7digital or HDtracks, but there is still plenty of music to find. Related: How to support your favorite music artists.

Yet if you dig deeper, you will find some hidden gems. Here are the two sites to download lossless music free:. Tips : Many torrent sites offer lossless music free download as well. Yet there are potential risks when you download torrents. So we won't include these torrent sites here.

But if you are interested in torrenting, check this article for more detail: Everything You Need to Know About Torrent. When speaking of free stuff, the Internet Archive is the first name to spring to mind. For it archives literally all kinds of digital materials and offers free public access to these files. And you'll get live recordings, netlabels, and other lossless audio categorized by topic, collection, creator, language, year, and so forth.

Though finding some known names is all by luck, you can still find a collection of Grateful Dead. Want to listen to the original soundtrack of your musical movie DVD? Try it for free! Joined May 22, Posts 2, Likes Even if the composer is long gone, the performance of a work is still covered by copyright.

So you'd have to go looking for a recorded performance that is old enough that the copyright has expired. Musopen is a project to create and release recorded performances of classical music to the public domain. They take donations to be able to pay for musicians to perform a work and get it recorded. Then they release it to the public domain. Unfortunately they're releasing the music as MP3 rather than lossless.

They most probably own the copyright of that record. You can not convince me that you have records performed by Vivaldi himself years ago. Uncle Erik Uncle Exotic. Joined Mar 18, Posts 22, Likes Another resource you might not have considered is your local public library. They often have a good selection for you to check out and take home. I won't comment on wha you can do in the privacy of your own home. A typical classical album will compress using FLAC to around about kbps. And yes, CD audio is lossless.