Visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum‘s website to download “The Concert,â?? a new classical music podcast offered under the Creative Commons Music Sharing license.
Download free recordings of classical music performed live in the museumâ??s Tapestry Room. These exclusive recordings from our regular concert series feature performances by acclaimed master musicians and up-and-coming young artists. A new program is posted every two weeks, so check back often, or receive automatic updates delivered directly to your computer or portable mp3 player with a free subscription.
You are free to share and reproduce these podcasts, and pass this great classical music along to your friends and family. The same goes for the individual tracks youâ??ll find sorted by musician and composer in the Music Library. We only ask that you let people know where you found it, and donâ??t alter the recording or use it commercially.
The podcast features unreleased live performances and includes music by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin for solo piano, orchestra, string quartet, and voice. A new podcast will be posted on the 1st and 15th of every month.
With “The Concert,” the Gardner Museum becomes the first art museum to encourage sharing and free distribution of its online programming by using a Creative Commons license.
Charlotte Landrum, the museum’s podcast project manager, says:
The single greatest thing about this is that the podcast is providing a really great chance for the public to hear and share recordings that might never have been heard otherwise, that were literally sitting on a shelf in the museum. There are two benefits: first, you get to hear new voices in classical music, artists that might not be distributed as widely on recordings; second, you get to hear master musicians, the ones who are more widely-recorded already, playing things that they may never have released commercially. We’ve already seen these ideas at work with so-called “popular” music online, but this is something new for classical music lovers.
(via Creative Commons)