"Naxos has become without doubt the world's favourite classical label. ...In the history of the gramophone, no company has more thoroughly overturned the classical record business. ...It has built its reputation on value and reliability."
- BBC Music Magazine
"Naxos has combined imaginative A&R with its philosophy of offering great music at affordable prices. Which all makes for a winning combination - classical music enthusiasts can't really go wrong!"
- Gramophone
"It's all happening on Naxos, the voracious budget label that dispatches repertory by the trunkload."
- The New York Times
"The most significant record industry development of the nineties [was] the landslide success of the budget-priced Naxos label."
- BBC Music Magazine
"Why pay £15 for a classical CD when you can get a better one for a third of the cost from the budget label Naxos?"
- The Guardian
"The economy may be down, but thanks to the pioneering, wallet-friendly Naxos label, for those interested in exploring the vast wealth of American music these are bounteous times indeed."
- Sun-Sentinel
"Music lovers now need invest only $5 to $7 to hear extravagant musical personalities whom they've only read about."
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
"As the crew of the HMS Pinafore might have shouted, let's hear three cheers and one cheer more for Naxos, the label primarily responsible these days for releasing historic operatic recordings at a bargain price."
- The Toronto Star
"The great salvation for classical recording continues to lie with the smaller independent labels. ...Enterprising indies such as Naxos continue to put out records that justify themselves artistically."
- Chicago Tribune
"Naxos continues to boast the most impressive - some might say overwhelming - release schedule of any recording company. ...Soundscan rates [Naxos] as the country's No. 1 independent classical distributor and label."
- Billboard
"I have a shopping basket full of Naxos recordings to recommend for this "Records to Die for" issue. Two recommendations? Nah. How about 24!"
- Stereophile
"Naxos, with some fine recordings at amazingly low prices, ate the major [label's] collective lunch and reportedly still makes buckets of money. The classical music recording industry is not dead or even comatose, it's evolving."
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Naxos Nostalgia, Naxos Jazz Legends, Naxos AudioBooks and Naxos World testify to the continuing vibrance of one of the great success stories of the CD era."
- BBC Music Magazine
"The Internet also is a boon to the feisty independent classical labels that have started up as the conglomerates have retrenched. If you're worried that the genre is dying, check out the online catalogs of such outfits such as...Naxos."
- Business Week on-line
"Naxos is simply the most exciting thing happening in classical music today."
- ClassicsToday.com
"Just as Pavlov taught his dogs to salivate at the ring of a bell, Klaus Heymann has perfected the trick of causing classical-record collectors to drool over the monthly release schedules of his Naxos label."
- Amazon.com
"With a catalogue of 80 releases from George Antheil...to Meredith Willson...and more than 100 projected titles to come, American Classics is the most ambitious documentation in sound of American classical music ever undertaken."
- Symphony Magazine
