Naxos (label)

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Naxos Records
legal form Limited (corporation)
founding 1987
Seat Hong KongHong Kong Hong Kong
management Klaus Heymann
Number of employees 250
sales USD 80 million (2004)
Branch Music publisher , sound carrier
Website www.naxos.com

Naxos , based in Hong Kong, is an independent music label for classical music ; jazz and world music also appear on sub-labels .

history

Naxos was founded in 1987 by the German Klaus Heymann in Hong Kong. The design and size of the booklets were usually narrower than with comparable labels, but the productions were cheaper to buy. While in the 1980s Naxos mainly worked with Eastern European symphony orchestras and little-known conductors to keep production costs low, American and British orchestras such as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra or Seattle Symphony and more well-known conductors such as Leonard Slatkin have increasingly been added since the 1990s . The label now also sells CDs and DVDs from other production companies.

repertoire

The company has recordings of lesser known and performed composers such as B. the symphonies of the Russian composer Nikolai Mjaskowski or recordings by contemporary composers and new music , as well as own series editions and first recordings of Japanese classical music, Jewish-American music, film music and early music .

The company commissioned the English composer Peter Maxwell Davies to write ten string quartets : the so-called Naxos Quartets .

In recent years, Naxos began to restore ("re-mastering") old recordings from other production companies and historical recordings whose property rights have expired and to publish them on CD. Maria Callas' studio recordings are a prominent example .

Total expenditure

Naxos has published complete editions of some composers :

Orchestral music

In brackets the conductor

All symphonies

In brackets the conductor

Piano music

Vocal music

  • Franz Schubert
  • Robert Schumann

Subject series

  • Get to know classical music - music history in sound samples (ten titles so far)

Streaming web portals

Naxos has set up a number of streaming services in which not only productions from its own company can be accessed, but also content from third-party providers. There is a web portal each for classical music, audio books, jazz music and videos from the classical music scene. The Naxos Web Radio with over 80 channels is the oldest streaming service in Naxos.

  • Naxos Music Library (resource for universities, music schools, public libraries, schools, professional musicians and collectors)
  • Naxos Video Library (video streaming service for classical music, concerts, operas, ballet and music documentaries)
  • Naxos Spoken Word Library (Audiobook Resource)
  • Naxos Music Library Jazz (Resource for Jazz)
  • Naxos Web Radio (Internet radio with more than 80 channels of classical music from the repertoire of Naxos)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brand Eins: Everything, cheap and good , edition 02/2005, accessed on May 18, 2020
  2. ↑ The Story Naxos. Retrieved May 16, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Music seminar series on CD from Naxos