About Us
Classical.com provides the world's largest and most comprehensive specialist music service for Classical, Jazz & Blues and World music.
Customers enjoy ownership of music as downloads (MP3 in 192k high quality) or by subscription which includes 100 free downloads per year and unlimited listening (streaming at 128k, the same quality as downloads from iTunes).
Complete information about the major recordings, composer biographies, and listening guides are provided. Sheet music is available for specialists to download.
Music is featured from over 1,300 labels and 500,000 tracks including many of the world's greatest artists and 3,290 composers. Downloads will play on iPods (except for some Major label repertoire which requires DRM).
Users can easily build playlists, enjoy sharing them and add commentaries. The advanced Recommendation engine finds recordings each individual user will love. Charts are updated daily based on recordings our users buy and play.
For a small monthly fee subscribers enjoy full access to the the entire musical world of these specialist genres, accessible from any computer anywhere in the world.
Our Values
We sell the highest quality music available
We care about our musical communities and our environment
We satisfy and delight our customers
We create wealth through profits and growth
Our Management Team
Roger Press
Roger founded Classical.com in 2000 with the objective of making our recorded cultural heritage available to the widest possible audience. For many years he was a pianist performing in the USA, UK and Europe ("Chopin's F minor Ballade featured confident, genuinely musical playing" New York Times, September 1987). To make the move into the business world he got an MBA from INSEAD, which is Europe's premier business school. From there he joined EMI where he won an EMMY Award as Executive Producer of "Itzhak Perlman in Russia" a TV show with CD spin off. He continued to work in video heading up the classical video division at PolyGram (now Universal) and worked in the Entertainment and Media consulting division of PricewaterhouseCoopers prior to founding Classical.com. He has built a team dedicated to producing the world's premier music service of cultural music.
Joe Carlebach
Joe Carlebach has over 25 years experince in the Technology,Telecoms and new Media Markets. He has held a number of positions ranging from sales & marketing through operations to CEO non executive Director and Chairman. He also has a number of roles in the charity and not for profit sectors including serving as Chairman of the Faculty of Medical Sciences Development Board at the Univercity of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Simon Graham - Marketing
Simon started his career at Sainsbury's developing corporate intranets. During his time at Sainsbury’s he built and launched a sports website which he sold in 2000. He then worked for on and offline publishers, in Head of Production and Project Manager roles. These included a mobile news service with Yahoo!, a lifestyle/sports magazine, one of the first ever pay-per-view web events with the BBC, publishing software development for BT Phonebooks and a website for UK Online for Business (DTI). He focuses on design, project management and online business development. Simon heads up online marketing and customer acquisition for Classical.com. He lives in Aldershot, Hampshire, with his lovely wife Renata and two rather daft cats.
Nick Reavill - Technology
Nick is a web application developer with ten years of experience as a programmer, designer and manager in Europe, Asia and the US. He managed the technology delivery platform for a major supplier of audio services to Museums around the world, which involved manufacture of consumer electronic devices and the management of data and IT services. The bulk of that experience has involved large, complex intranets designed and built from scratch, servicing small but voracious user groups. In 2008 Nick joined Classical.com bringing his experience of intranets, extranets and other data based web sites.
