Telemann: Viola Concerto / Recorder Suite / Tafelmusik 8.550156
Tomkins: Consort Music for Viols and Voices 8.550602
Vaughan Williams: Phantasy Quintet / String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 8.555300
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos, Vol. 3 8.550909
Weber: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 8.550928
Diapason d’Or Awards
Regular Naxos Titles
Benevolo: Missa Azzolina / Magnificat / Dixit Dominus 8.553636
Berwald: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 8.553051
Berwald: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Piano Concerto 8.553052
Boulez: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1–3 8.553353
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb / Hymn to St Cecilia / Missa Brevis 8.554791
Britten: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / Three Divertimenti 8.553883
Ego sum Resurrectio – Gregorian Chant for the Dead 8.553192
Elgar: String Quartet in E minor / Piano Quintet in A minor 8.553737
Guarnieri: Piano Concertos Nos. 1–3 8.557666
Guarnieri: Piano Concertos Nos. 4–6 8.557667
Ives: Symphony No. 1 / Emerson Concerto 8.559175
Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 4 / Violin Partita / Chain II / Funeral Music 8.553202
Muffat: Concerti grossi Nos. 1–6 8.555096
Muffat: Concerti grossi Nos. 7–12 8.555743
Offenbach arr. Rosenthal: Gaîté Parisienne / Offenbachiana 8.554005
Penderecki: A Polish Requiem 8.557386–87
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 3 & 4 8.550566
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 8.550565
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane / Symphony No. 3 8.570245
Schenck: Nymphs of the Rhine: Vol. 1 8.554414
Schenck: Nymphs of the Rhine: Vol. 2 8.554415
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 8.572461
Szymanowski: Songs with Orchestra 8.553688
Szymanowski: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Nocturne and Tarantella 8.557981
Various: Lamentations 8.550572
Naxos Historical Titles
Busoni and His Pupils 8.110777
Caruso – Complete Recordings, Vol. 4 8.110719
Caruso – Complete Recordings, Vol. 5 8.110720
Caruso – Complete Recordings, Vol. 6 8.110721
Caruso – Complete Recordings, Vol. 7 8.110724
Caruso – Complete Recordings, Vol. 8 8.110726
Cortot – Chopin: Ballades Nos. 1–4, Nocturnes 8.111245
Cortot – Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 / Polonaises 8.111065
Curzon/Budapest String Quartet – Brahms / Dvoák: Piano Quintets 8.110307
Ferrier – Brahms: Alto Rhapsody / Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben 8.111009
Ferrier – Mahler: Kindertotenlieder / Symphony No. 4 8.110876
Friedman – Chopin: Mazurkas 8.110690
Friedman – Mendelssohn: Songs without Words 8.110736
Gieseking – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 8.111112
Gigli Edition, Vol. 1: Milan Recordings 8.110262
Gigli Edition, Vol. 2: Milan, Camden and New York Recordings 8.110263
Gigli Edition, Vol. 3: Camden and New York Recordings 8.110264
Gigli Edition, Vol. 4: Camden and New York Recordings 8.110265
Gigli Edition, Vol. 5: New York Recordings 8.110266
Gigli Edition, Vol. 6: New York Recordings 8.110267
Gigli Edition, Vol. 7: London, New York and Milan Recordings 8.110268
Gigli Edition, Vol. 8: Milan, London and Berlin Recordings 8.110269
Gigli Edition, Vol. 9: Berlin, Milan and London Recordings 8.110270
Gigli Edition, Vol. 10: Milan and London Recordings 8.110271
Gigli Edition, Vol. 11: Milan, Berlin and Rome Recordings 8.110272
Heifetz – Brahms / Glazunov: Violin Concertos 8.110940
Heifetz – Elgar / Walton: Violin Concertos 8.110939
Heifetz – Mozart / Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos 8.110941
Heifetz – Prokofiev / Gruenberg: Violin Concertos 8.110942
Heifetz – Tchaikovsky / Wieniawski / Sibelius: Violin Concertos 8.110938
Heifetz – Vieuxtemps: Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 8.110943
Kapell – Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Khachaturian: Piano Concerto 8.110673
Kapell – Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 8.110692
Koussevitsky – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Ravel: Boléro & Ma Mère l’oye 8.110154
Koussevitsky – Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 8.110170
Kreisler/Rachmaninov – Beethoven / Schubert / Grieg: Violin Sonatas 8.110968
Levitzki – Complete Recordings, Vol. 1 8.110688
Levitzki – Complete Recordings, Vol. 2 8.110769
Mengelberg – Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 8.110164
Mengelberg – Strauss: Ein Heldenleben / Tod und Verklärung 8.110161
Menuhin – Beethoven / Franck / Lekeu: Violin Sonatas 8.110989
Menuhin – Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 7 & 9 8.110775
Menuhin – Brahms / Schumann: Violin Sonatas 8.110771
Milstein – Dvoák / Glazunov: Violin Concertos 8.110975
Milstein – Mendelssohn / Tchaikovsky / Bruch: Violin Concertos 8.110977
Moiseiwitsch – Chopin: 24 Preludes / Ballades / Fantaisie-Impromptu 8.111118
Moiseiwitsch – Chopin: Piano Works 8.111117
Moiseiwitsch – Schumann: Kinderszenen / Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition 8.110668
Moiseiwitsch – Weber-Tausig: Rondo brillante / Liszt: La leggierezza / Wagner-Liszt: Isoldes Liebestod etc. 8.110669
Petri – Brahms: Paganini and Handel Variations 8.110634
Ponselle – Rosa Ponselle Sings Verdi 8.110728
Sammons – Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante / Elgar: Violin Sonata 8.110957
Schnabel – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1–3 8.110693
Schnabel – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4–6 & 19–20 8.110694
Schnabel – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 7–10 8.110695
Schnabel – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 11–13 8.110756
Schnabel – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 14–16 8.110759
Schnabel – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 17, 18 & 21 8.110760
Schnabel – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 22–26 8.110761
Schnabel – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 27–29 8.110762
Schnabel – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30–32 8.110763
Szigeti – Brahms / Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos 8.110948
Szigeti – Prokofiev / Bloch: Violin Concertos 8.110973
Talich – Smetana: Ma Vlast 8.111237
Tauber – Lieder 8.110739
Tauber – Operetta Arias 8.110779
Thibaud/Casals/Cortot – Beethoven: Archduke Trio / Kreutzer Sonata 8.110195
Thibaud/Casals/Cortot – Haydn / Beethoven / Schubert: Piano Trios 8.110188
Thibaud/Casals/Cortot – Mendelssohn / Schumann: Piano Trios 8.110185
Walter – Mahler: Symphony No. 9 8.110852
Naxos Historical Opera and Musicals
Borodin: Prince Igor 8.111071–73
Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet 8.110982–83
Giordano: Andrea Chénier 8.110275–76
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina 8.111124–26
Ponchielli: La Gioconda 8.110112–14
Porter: Kiss Me, Kate / Let’s Face It 8.120788
Rodgers & Hammerstein: Oklahoma! 8.120787
Rodgers & Hammerstein: South Pacific 8.120785
Sullivan: The Mikado 8.110176–77
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin 8.110216–17
Verdi: Otello 8.111018–19
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 8.110872–75
Wagner: Die Walküre, Acts I & II 8.110250–51
Wagner: Parsifal 8.110221–24
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 8.110068–70
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 8.110321–24
Acknowledgements
Secondly, thanks to my editor Genevieve Helsby, who had the challenging task of working through my sometimes artistic (sketchy) grasp of grammar and occasionally wayward accuracy. There were thousands of tiny points to confirm, to question, to change, which she did not only with unfailing patience and diligence, but also while simultaneously running her busy Naxos editorial department.
The book had its beginnings in many discussions with David Patmore, the record historian and Naxos writer, who helped considerably in its emerging shape, particularly with regard to the history of the classical record industry which he knows so well. I am also grateful for interest expressed by David Shelley – deputy publisher of Little, Brown UK – in the history of Naxos, and his offer to publish this book.
All the Naxos contributors mentioned in these pages also responded generously with their time and knowledge. Performers, administrators, salesmen, editors, publicists, producers, engineers from Hong Kong to Sweden, from Korea to the US, from Australia to Hungary – they all rose to the challenge of answering many and sometimes odd questions, having little idea what would happen to the answers. Of course, having been part of Naxos for nearly two decades myself, I knew many of these people already, and had visited a lot of them in their offices or seen quite a few in concert! But contact over the book showed again what a remarkable group of highly capable people they are – passionate about their work and committed to the label. In the end, it is the contribution of individuals, starting with Klaus Heymann, that has made Naxos. After twenty-five years, it is very far from being a corporate entity!
Index
Aagaard, Thorvald 343
Abbado, Claudio 14
Abeille Musique 405–9
Abendroth, Hermann 206
Adam, Antoine 33
Adams, John 186, 214, 231–2
Ailey, Alvin 347
Alain, Jehan 269
Albanese, Licia 276
Albinoni, Tomaso 279, 385
Alcántara, Theo 265
Alfvén, Hugo 392
Alkan, Charles-Valentin 59, 289
Allegri, Gregorio 259
Allen, Sir Thomas 229, 378
Alsop, Marin 91, 119, 181–6, 232, 234, 251, 256, 298, 321, 366, 375, 417, 420
Alwyn, William 160, 174, 363
Amadis 269–71
Anderson, Anthony 82, 90, 157, 248, 331, 362–4, 366–7
Anderson, Keith 71, 82, 300, 327–31, 362
Anderson, Leroy 215
Anderson, Marian 277
Andry, Peter 12
Angel, David 156–9
Angus, David 299
Anthony, Adele 232
Antill, John 221
Appenheimer, Günther 313, 314, 321
Arensky, Anton 194
Armstrong, Louis 278
Arnold, Malcolm 236, 363
Arnold, Samuel 306
Artaria Editions 101, 176, 256, 304–6, 309
Arthaus Musik 104, 350, 366, 374, 387, 402
Ashkenazy, Vladimir 4
Asturias Symphony Orchestra 265
Atterberg, Kurt 328
Auden, W.H. 219
Babbitt, Milton 380
Bach, C.P.E. 94, 162, 163, 177, 319, 413
Bach, Johann Sebastian 6, 39, 73, 75, 76, 99, 138–9, 142, 148, 155, 203, 204, 207, 208, 223, 242, 250, 259, 260, 268, 275, 279, 289, 343, 345
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann 163
Badley, Allan 100, 101, 176, 304–5
Balakirev, Mily 194, 285
Balanchine, George 219
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 182
Barbagallo, James 290
Barber, Samuel 91, 182, 183, 184, 226, 380
Barrett, Sean 299, 323
Bartholdy Quartet 170
Bartók, Béla 125, 137, 138, 141, 142, 153, 183, 185, 188, 261, 289, 302, 319, 320, 355
Basie, Count 278
Bax, Arnold 90, 172, 221, 236, 358, 363, 364
BBC 3, 119, 150, 183, 201, 202, 296, 297, 366
orchestras 209, 214, 215, 357
Proms 173, 181, 201, 215
Beach, Amy 378
Beale, Simon Russell 295
Beaver, Steve 46, 83–4
Bechet, Sidney 278
Beck, Franz Ignaz 304
Beecham, Sir Thomas 2, 276
Beethoven, Ludwig van 4, 7, 9, 15, 30, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 109, 124, 132, 133, 138–40, 141, 142, 145, 148, 152–3, 173, 176, 179, 180, 198, 200–1, 207, 208, 223, 247, 251, 259, 261, 269, 275, 276, 305, 357, 378, 385, 387, 410, 420
Beiderbecke, Bix 278
Beijing Symphony Orchestra (BSO) 245–6
Belcea Quartet 159
Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra (BRT) 85, 251
Berg, Alban 261, 347
Berio, Luciano 225
Berkeley, Lennox 160
Berlin Philharmonic 10, 14, 179, 201, 366
Berlioz, Hector, 31, 215, 280
Berman, Boris 320
Bernold, Philippe 162
Bernstein, Leonard 3, 4, 91, 182, 183, 220, 226, 347, 366, 375, 378, 379
Bilbao Symphony Orchestra 265, 317
Biret, Idil 142–6, 174, 188, 191, 225, 241, 254, 408
BIS 3, 10, 112, 360, 393, 402, 418
Bizet, Georges 179, 261
Björk 237
Björling, Jussi 99, 273, 275–6
Blake, David 355–6
Bliss, Arthur 236, 358
Bloom, Leopold 297
Blumenthal, Daniel 289
BMG 11–12, 45, 46, 77–8, 83, 84, 349
Boccherini, Luigi 168, 242, 268
Böhm, Karl 347
Bohus, János 318
Bohuslav Martin Philharmonic Orchestra 325
Bolcom, William 181, 212, 213, 216, 226, 227–8, 233, 321, 375
Bose, Dr Amar G. 38
Boulez, Pierre 143–5, 233, 241, 249, 254, 363, 408
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 96, 183, 221, 234, 357
Brahms, Johannes 15, 75, 85, 119, 131, 138, 143, 144, 145, 148, 154, 174, 177, 181, 184, 185, 188, 191, 198, 201, 220, 223, 251, 252, 269, 275, 281, 289, 326, 420
Bramall, Anthony 75, 179
Breiner, Peter 75, 135, 181, 187, 242–6
Brendel, Alfred 138
Brian, Havergal 58–9, 180, 285
Bridge, Frank 156, 172, 173, 236
British Piano Concerto Foundation 364
Britten, Benjamin, 157, 158, 209, 237, 261, 327, 365
Brodsky Quartet 237
Bromley, Peter 60, 241, 266, 309, 331–4
Bronsart, Hans 39
Brouwer, Leo 168
Brown, Timothy 241, 364
Bruch, Max 75, 76, 131, 147, 153, 193, 252, 275
Bruckner, Anton 39, 50, 95, 96, 252
Budapest Radio Symphony Orchestra 53
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra 229, 381
Buffalo Symphony Orchestra 379
Burton, Anthony 302
Busoni, Ferruccio 145, 289
Butcher, Sarah 323
Butterworth, George 364
Buxtehude, Dietrich 260, 268
Bylsma, Anner 170
Byrd, William 202, 253, 249
Byrén, Mats 82, 388, 389
C Major 402
Cage, John 224, 320, 362–3
Callas, Maria 99, 276
Camden, Anthony 95
Candide 39, 44
Cannabich, Christian 305
Capella Istropolitana 68, 72, 73, 75, 85, 179, 180, 251, 313, 314
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br /> Caplet, André 407
Cardoso, Manuel 205
Carreras, José 14–15
Carter, Elliott 226
Casadesus, Jean-Claude 408
Casals, Pablo 99, 275
Casella, Alfredo 61, 266, 267
Cassuto, Álvaro 317
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario 165, 266, 267, 268
Castile and León Symphony Orchestra 265
CBS/Columbia 2–4, 12, 91, 228, 317, 374
CD Journal 397
CD(s):
analogue recordings on 14
birth of 8–12
decline of 104, 413
deletions 280
downloads/streaming v. 413–14
DVDs and 374
first Naxos 11
improved formats of 102
LPs v. 8, 11, 14, 57, 65–6, 67, 76–9, 356
pirated 65, 104, 115–16, 242, 336, 394, 401–2, 416
proliferation of 11, 13–14
Celibidache, Sergiu 347
Chadwick, George Whitefield 375, 378
Challenge Classics 402
Chandos 10, 90, 113, 215, 366, 376, 394, 405, 418
Chapí, Ruperto 265
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine 96, 408
Chen Gang 47, 48, 49, 130
China Central Broadcasting 63, 64
China National Publications Import and Export Corporation 402
China Records 64
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge 240, 364
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge 237, 317, 364
Chopin, Frédéric 123, 137, 142–6, 148, 174, 175, 190, 259, 269, 303, 385
Christopher Nupen Films 367
Chrysalis 46
Cimarosa, Domenico 164, 305
City of London Sinfonia 357
Ciurlionis, M.K. 59, 282, 289
Clarinet Classics xiv, 88
Classical Recording Company 323
ClassicsOnline (COL) 114, 116, 342, 346, 367, 377, 409, 413, 416
Clements, Mike 204
Cliburn, Van 415
Coates, Eric 180
Coates, Gloria 226
Collegium Records 240, 364, 366
Collins Classics 236, 239, 309, 365
Collins, Wilkie 294
Cologne Chamber Orchestra (CCO) 206, 207, 251, 386
Colorado Symphony Orchestra 182, 234
Concentus Hungaricus 140
Constable, John 258
Copland, Aaron, 184, 220, 380, 382
copyright 71, 87–90, 115–18, 223, 224, 245–6, 274, 278, 333, 345, 394
Corelli, Arcangelo 40, 279
Corghi, Azio 328
Corigliano, John 226, 228–30, 378, 380, 381
Cornelius, Peter 276
Corp, Ronald 156, 160
Cortot, Alfred 142, 143, 273
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