p2pnet.net News:- Starting today, everyone who visits the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum site will be able to download, and share, free classical music via The Concert, the museum’s new classical music podcast series.

It features unreleased live performances by master musicians and talented young artists recorded from the museum’s Sunday Concert Series, America’s longest-running museum music series.

The 45-minute podcasts will include music by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin for solo piano, orchestra, string quartet, and voice, and a new podcast will be posted on the 1st and 15th of every month. Listeners will be able to subscribe to receive free, automatic updates delivered directly to their computers or mp3 players.

The Museum says it’s breaking new ground as the first art museum to encourage sharing and free distribution of its online programming by using a “some rights reserved” copyright license from Creative Commons.

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School has worked with the museum to address legal issues relating to podcasting music and using Creative Commons licenses for podcasts.

Artists in “The Concert” range from young chamber musicians to established solo pianists. The artists whose performances are featured in “The Concert” include: the Borromeo String Quartet, the Claremont Trio, violinist Corey Cerovsek, the Gardner Chamber Orchestra with conductor Douglas Boyd, harpsichordist John Gibbons, violist Kim Kashkashian, Musicians from Marlboro, flutist Paula Robison, baritone Randall Scarlata, and pianists Jeremy Denk, Paavali Jumppanen, Cecile Licad, and Seymour Lipkin. Artist and composer bios are available on the website.

It’s also a first step towards building a free online classical music library on the museum site.