Deutsche Grammophon, the recording company founded in 1898 that was among the earliest adaptors of the CD format in 1983, has now entered the digital age. DG has just launched their online Web Shop, where you can now click and download any of 2,400 initial offerings from the classical-music giant. Of special interest are 600 previously out-of-print recordings. Better yet: The quality of anything you download, from Reich to Rachmaninov, comes to you at a bit-rate of 320 kb/second.

(For the non-technorati, that's more than twice the quality of the going market bit-rate of 128 kb/second.)

Miss your liner notes? Not to worry: You'll get PDF of them with every download. Prices vary somewhat according to the length of the work, though $11.99 is fairly standard for a CD-length download, $1.29 for an average-length track. The site also includes an updated link to DG artists on tour across the world. Our current recommendation: Anna Netrebko at the Metropolitan Opera in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. --COREY SEYMOUR

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