Classical Archives

Classical Archives LLC

About this app

The largest and best organized collection of classical music in the world! Play (stream) these marvelous works of classical music through our queuing player, whenever you want, where ever you are. Find the works you want to
listen to with the help of our unique classification, developed by expert musicologists. We offer three modes:

1) The Library - where you can select from all the performances of a work in our enormous collection of recordings - organized by composer, category, and composition. We offer an immediate list of "The Greats" (composers) and their works, or you can search for any composer or performer by name (just enter the first few characters of the last name). Once you see a list of performances, long-tap on one of them to either add it to the player's queue, or add it to one of your playlists, or to view and play the entire album it came from. A short tap on a performance sends it immediately to the player - or its queue if something is already playing.

2) Must Know - where you will be guided to appreciate the most important composers and works of classical music through their latest released recordings. You can search by composers or by a combination of Period
(Baroque, Classical, Romantic, etc.) and Genre (Orchestral, Chamber, Solo, Stage, etc.)

3) Playlists - where you can play some suggested playlists, or you can build and play your own! Subscribers have unlimited access and can play entire tracks or complete works or albums (even entire operas and multi-CD collections) with just one click. Non-subscribers will hear one minute clips of each track.

Ratings and reviews

I haven't even scratched the surface of what there is, but the app needs to be improved in many ways. Various things need to be addressed. The overall functionality is good, but things like gapless playback (always brief silences between tracks), downloading for offline play, app stability (frequent crashing), and a myriad of other things. However, the sheer volume of what is available is hands down, superb, approaching endless content. Great app, I love it, but it needs work

This app does not seem to be well maintained. It's always been quirky with the player being in a separate window from the library. Recently, however, it has been skipping tracks and sometimes crashing.. I suspect this may be related to incompatibility with the latest Android release.

2021-05-08 OMG! They finally fixed this app! I have re-subscribed after cancelling and all but giving up on CA. Great service. For too long it was virtually inaccessible on Android due to an extremely bug ridden app. They fixed the app! Yay! 2021-07-11 App is still performing perfectly! So happy they fixed this app. This is now a great way to listen to classical music on Android.

What's new

- Fixed some crashes
- Work search results: display correct performers
- Small tweaks in various places
- Improved streaming buffering
- Fixed a bug when playing and adding to playlist (via context menu) in work search results