As part of the celebration of Tanglewood’s 75th anniversary season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra launched its first-ever 75 free digital streams program on June 20, designed to offer music lovers around the globe a glimpse into the storied performance history of the famed music festival founded in 1937. The Tanglewood 75 free streams will be available through tanglewood.org, with one free stream being offered each day of the summer, June 20-September 2, starting at 8 a.m. EST; when the 24-hour stream has ended, the digital music will be available at www.tanglewood.org for purchase as a download. Most of the recordings featured have been digitized, re-mastered, and are being made available to the public for the first time ever, offered in MP3 128 kbps formats. Both 320 kbps MP3 and 24bit 44.1kHz FLAC versions will be available for purchase.

Schedule of free digital streams from Tanglewood

JULY 4-10

• Wednesday, July 4 – GERSHWIN Concerto in F. BPO/Fiedler/Wild (1962/1967/1970)
• Thursday, July 5 – BACH Suite No. 2 and Concerto No. 1 in C minor, for two pianos. BSO/Munch/Dwyer, Foss, and Lipkin (July 8, 1955 and July 5, 1957)
• Friday, July 6 – Excerpts from Inaugural BSO concert at Tanglewood and MOZART Symphony No. 25. BSO/Koussevitzky (August 5, 1937 and 1944)
• Saturday, July 7 – MOZART “Ruhe Sanft” from Zaide, “Marten aller arten” from Die Entführung aus dem Serail, “Exsultate Jubilate” K.165, and “Ah se in ciel benigne stelle” K.538, BSO/Leinsdorf/Sills (June 6, 1968)
• Sunday, July 8 – BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Divertimento. BSO/Bernstein (July 4, 1981)
• Monday, July 9 – MESSIAEN Turangalîla-Symphonie. BSO/Ozawa/ Yvonne and Jeanne Loriod (August 16, 1975)
• Tuesday, July 10 –DVO?ÁK Symphony No. 8. TMCO/Levine (June 30, 2008)

PURCHASING STREAMS FOR DOWNLOAD

When the 24-hour stream has ended, the digital music will be available at tanglewood.org for purchase as a download. MP3’s are priced at $.89 for tracks 7 minutes or less, and FLAC are priced at $.99 for tracks 7 minutes or less. Any content longer than 7 minutes will be priced according to duration, with operas costing $16.99-$18.99. A music subscription for the Tanglewood 75 streams is available for $50 for MP3s and $60 for FLAC, offering all 75 days worth of content as it is released for download. (Some select content will not be available for purchase with the subscription after the 75 day period is complete.)

About the streams – concert listings, performance details, artists, and composers

Links to complete details of Tanglewood’s digital audio streams: An essay by Anthony Fogg, the BSO’s artistic administrator, about the sources, organization, and selection process behind the Tanglewood 75 Free Stream project. For cross-referencing purposes, appearing in links below are three different ways of viewing the music included in the 75 streams:

• full concert listing with complete performance details for all the streams;
• listing of artists featured in the streams;
• listing of composers and their works that have been included.