Steinway & Sons Streaming: An Excellent No-Cost Music Source

[johnmarianmarks]

Just a reminder, or if anyone does not already know: Steinway & Sons Recordings makes their entire music catalog of more than 100 CDs available for FREE streaming listening (no registration required and no personal data requested) here:

http://steinwaystreaming.com/steinway/streamHome.jsp

Of course, if you have Qobuz, you can hear the same music in hi-res, which Steinway Streaming is not.

But it's a great no-cost way to explore new music and performances. The most recent CD is quite a Coup for Steinway: Yunchan Lim's "Live from the Cliburn" Liszt Transcendental Etudes.

(Steinway sells a boxed set of my Christmas string quartet CDs, but I do not receive any payments of any kind in respect of those titles.)

I put together a list (with links) of 13 albums that I think most listeners will enjoy, ranked from greatest general appeal to greatest specialist appeal, with capsule reviews:

https://thetannhausergate.com/index...-streaming-an-excellent-no-cost-music-source/

ciao,

john

 

[Duke58]

Thank you for sharing!

I also appreciate the second website link provided.

 

[johnmarianmarks]

You are very welcome. If I had to pick one mind-boggling piano track from Steinway Streaming (FWIW & YMMV), it would be Jenny Lin's playing of Marc-André Hamelin’s atmospheric re-imagining of the theme from the movie “Laura.” That's Track 12, here:

http://steinwaystreaming.com/steinway/Streaming#!/steinway/album.jsp?album_id=786069

The middle section should give anyone's tweeters a workout.

amb,

john

 

[rayma]

Very nice, thanks.

 

[Duke58]

This gives me hours of music to listen to. Thanks for the information. I normally wouldn't have checked Steinway's site for recorded music.

 

[gcsa]

Great post, thank you for sharing this. The second website link is very good reading.

 

[Netlist]

Thanks John, very generous from you..... and Steinway.

 

[Drummer2005]

Thanks for sharing, John. I'm always looking to expand my listening range, and find the next music to be inspired by. Glenn.

 

[kouiky]

Thank you. It’s nice for a change to see something that isn’t walling me off unless I create another account or pay a subscription.

If the music is good I may have to add some of their CDs.

 

[johnmarianmarks]

Glad to be of help.

If you click through to the survey article on my blog, there are links to 13 recordings that are "beyond good."

That said, S&S Recordings puts out projects faster than I can listen to them.

john