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Andante (Internet music resource). Andante Corp. http://www.andante.com (accessed 3 March 2004). [Requires RealAudio or Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer versions 5.0 and higher or Netscape Navigator version 6.2 and higher. Pricing for group licenses: 2-5 simultaneous users $400/year; 11-19 simultaneous users $1000/year; more than 19 negotiated individually.]

Among the many thousands of classical music sites now found on the Web, Andante.com is one of the busiest-looking sites. Unlike many active sites, there is a lot behind this one. An article by Allan Kozinn in the New York Times (28 August 2001) traced the history of this particular site from the founding of the Andante compact disc label by French lawyer Alain Coblence to the launch of its Web site, Andante.com, in April 2001. In Coblence's words, "Our mission is to provide access to knowledge about music, both for music lovers who are not well versed and who need basic references and for sophisticated listeners, musicians, professionals, musicologists and universities. We wanted to compile exclusive resources that were deep and complex."

Andante's site has at its heart the Musicroom, in which one may find an increasingly large catalog of complete musical performances available for streaming. What sets this catalog of performances apart from other streaming sites, such as Naxos (www.naxos.com [accessed 3 March 2004]) and the Classical Music Library (www.classical.com [accessed 2 March 2004]), is that many of these performances are either historical performances from the archives of Andante's partner ensembles and festivals or recent live performances. Originally this list of distinguished partners included the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Concertgebouworkest, the Salzburger Festspiel, the Wiener Philharmoniker, and Wigmore Hall. This past November the list grew to include its first record label, the French label Naive. Naive also took over operation of the Web site and production of the Andante brand compact...

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