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The World’s Largest Collection of High-Quality DRM-free Classical Music Downloads Goes Live in the UK

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

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Passionato launches the world’s most extensive online classical resource, offering access to catalogues from the most significant key classical file labels as effectively as the crucial classical impartial labels

London — 11th September 2008 — Passionato launches right now, offering classical music lovers the opportunity to browse, sample and download single tracks, works or albums from its catalogue of classical songs recordings. Tracks are obtainable from its Shop at http://www.passionato.com in superior audio high quality (320kbps MP3 or lossless FLAC). All of the audio is DRM-totally free, which makes it possible for songs obtained on Passionato to be transferred to any personal computer or portable audio player (such as the iPod®) and burnt to CD devoid of any restrictions.

Post-kick off Passionato will keep on to indicator-up far more impartial labels, and to add new releases from the key significant and impartial labels on a weekly basis.

Passionato is no cost to join, with no subscription and with highly aggressive, flexible pricing in accordance to whether users download tracks, works or albums. End users will be ready to download free beta application — the Player — which enables them to organise all the new music they download alongside any songs they import (rip) from their classical CD collections. Passionato’s intensive recording information (metadata) means the Player can recognize any classical CD a person imports by matching it with Passionato’s very own database, delivering prompt information on, for instance, composer, day of recording, file label, recording area, recording producer, recording engineer and period of time.

Passionato’s Keep allows consumers to pay attention to samples of up to sixty seconds of each track in its catalogue, and to browse by composer (subdivided by interval, e.g. Baroque, Renaissance or Romantic, or by nationality), by artist (subdivided by voice, e.g. mezzo-soprano or baritone, or by nationality) and by file label.

In this way, consumers can roam Passionato’s retailer freely, finding new recordings devoid of acquiring to pay out a penny. The Passionato Keep also capabilities the Passionato team’s very own skilled recommendations on hugely rated performs, countless numbers of evaluations from nationwide media and specialist songs publications, and a often up-to-date chart. Customers can fee operates utilizing the Player, an effortless method of sorting favorite pieces.

Passionato also encourages musical debate amongst classical audio lovers in its focused Local community part. The discussion boards provide a area for quick-fire discussion on a broad range of subjects.

In the spirit of discovering and sharing classical audio, Passionato incorporates a number of Web two. attributes. Users can post links to their favorite classical albums on 34 of the most popular online social networks, like Facebook and MySpace, directing pals to the Passionato Retailer exactly where they can hear free audio samples. Consumers can also deliver private suggestions/backlinks to their pals immediately by way of e mail by means of the ‘Send to a Friend’ function, and bookmark their favourites utilizing internet sites such as Del.icio.u.s.

To coincide with Passionato’s start, everyone who registers at passionato.com can declare 10 no cost pre-chosen tracks, 1 of which is which is an total 30-minute operate (latest pre-chosen operate is Saint-Saens’ Symphony No.3).

James Glicker, Founder and CEO of Passionato, carried out the preliminary study for Passionato although living in the US following he finished a two-yr phrase as President of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. James’s 20 a long time in the new music market consist of positions as Head of Globally Marketing and advertising at BMG Classics (buying and selling as RCA Victor), Managing Director of BMG Australia and President of MusicNow (now component of Napster).

James says: “I’m an avid client of classical music myself and, getting worked in the market for twenty years, I am informed of how technologies and the internet are becoming progressively a part of how men and women access, eat and share information about classical audio. Passionato is delighted to have the cooperation of the most significant majors and we will above the next six months and beyond be signing up even far more labels — all with the final target of presenting folks who enjoy classical music with an straightforward and cost effective way of organising and expanding their new music collections.”

The Uk recorded new music marketplace association, the BPI, adds: “Digital distribution currently provides fantastic selection as to how music supporters can acess and take pleasure in music online, and its prospective is even greater. We anticipate the new Passionato support will significantly improve the digital new music supplying for classical audio aficionados and we warmly welcome innovation of this type in music retail.”



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