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This month brings you another bumper crop of great reviews from the leading music magazines, quality dailies and online review sites. There’s no doubt about it: Naxos releases and distributes some of the best CDs and DVDs available!
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Die Zeit Best Album of the Year
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ClassicsToday.com 10/10 Top Rating
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GRIEG Orchestral Music Vol 6 – From Holberg’s Time, Lyric Suite, Melodies
Malmö Symphony • Engeset
Naxos 8.572403 [CD]
‘The excellence of Bjarte Engeset’s Grieg recordings speaks for itself. As with previous releases in this series, the performances are outstanding.’
– ClassicsToday.com
‘Engeset’s own heritage allows him to accentuate the Nationalistic sentiments and scenic vistas Grieg incorporates into his scores.’
– Allmusic.com
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Naxos Blu-ray Audio
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JANÁČEK Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta
Libor • Marciniec • Bentch • Gierlach • Malanowicz • Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra • Wit
Naxos NBD0026 [Blu-Ray Audio]
‘the sonics of this new audio-only Blu-ray are so superior I found it difficult to make a comparison’
–  Audiophile Audition
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EuroArts
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ROSSINI Petite messe solennelle
Pendatchanska • Custer • Secco • Palazzi • Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra • Chailly
EuroArts 2057428 [DVD]
‘the performance it receives under Chailly elevates this rarely heard work not only to stand alongside the composer’s better-known Stabat Mater, but also the great Mass by Verdi’
– MusicWeb International
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Oehms
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GIULIANI Guitar Music
Eduardo Fernández
Oehms Classics OC401 [CD]
‘Fernández delights in the simplicity and virtuosity of Giuliani’s music while bringing a vast dynamic and tonal palette to bear on its more subtle aspects of colorations’
– Gramophone
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Ondine
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TÜÜR Ärkamine (Awakening)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir • Sinfonietta Riga • Reuss
Ondine ODE1183-2 [CD]
Die Zeit Best Album of the Year
‘Highly recommended for fans of new orchestral and choral music.’
– Allmusic.com
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