Classical music specialist Naxos has launched Naxos Music Library World, an online collection of thousands of world and traditional music recordings from the past 70 years available for streaming.

NMLW is described as "the most comprehensive online World Music library available, with music from more than 150 countries and 1,500 cultural groups".

The bulk of the offering comes from Washington, DC-based Smithsonian Folkways, the non-profit label part of the Smithsonian Institution, which has garnered a vast collection of recordings of ...