Recordings of the performances listed on this site have been donated to Music Preserved and may be listened to at the listening centres in the Barbican Music Library and Jerwood Library of Performing Arts at Trinity College of Music.

Music Preserved was founded as the Music Performance Research Centre in 1987. It was established as a registered charity (no. 296895) and a company limited by guarantee (no. 2129867).

Music Preserved became a viable public archive in 1989 when the Department of Trade and Industry designated it as a body for which a recording (or copies of a recording) of an unencrypted broadcast or cable programme could be made without infringing copyright in the broadcast or cable programme or any work or performance included in that transmission. Music Preserved continues to be a designated archive under The Copyright (Recording for Archives of Designated Class of Broadcasts and Cable Programmes) (Designated Bodies) (No. 2) Order 1989 and as amended in 1993.

Music Preserved provides a reference service only and cannot grant permissions for other usages of the recordings listed on this site. All rights in the performances and works and in any associated literary works that are stored in the archive are reserved to the owners of the copyright in such works.

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