Naxos Classical Archives

Naxos Classical Archives present hundreds of otherwise unavailable recordings from the LP era, including many great performances from the past and some priceless rarities.

There are almost 700 titles of Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth-century masterpieces that you would search far and wide, high and low, to find anywhere else—if at all!

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ALFVEN: Midsommarvaka/GRIEG: 3 Orchestral Pieces from Sigurd Jorsalfar/Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (1951-1952)

BACH: Overtures (Suites) Nos. 1, 3, 4

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5

BIZET: Carmen

CHOPIN: Mazurkas

E COATES: London Suite / London Again Suite / The Three Men Suite / The Three Bears

DEBUSSY: Violin Sonata / VILLA-LOBOS: Violin Sonata No. 3

DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor

DVORAK: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"

ELGAR: Enigma Variations / Cockaigne / Serenade in E minor

FALLA: El sombrero de tres picos (The 3-Cornered Hat) / El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) (excerpts)

GERSHWIN: An American in Paris / Porgy and Bess Suite (arr. M. Gould)

GLANVILLE-HICKS: Etruscan Concerto / HOLMBOE: Concerto No. 11

GRIEG: Holberg Suite / Lyric Pieces (excerpts) / Norwegian Dances

HANDEL: The Faithful Shepherd Suite (arr. Beecham) / HAYDN: Symphony No. 93

HONEGGER: Le Roi David / STRAVINSKY: L’histoire du Soldat Suite

D'INDY: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard francais / SAINT-SAENS: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Egyptian"

KHACHATURIAN: Violin Concerto

KODALY: Hary Janos Suite / BARTOK: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

KORNGOLD: Much Ado about Nothing Suite / Improvisations

LEHAR: The Merry Widow (Highlights, Sung in English)

LISZT: Totentanz / MENDELSSOHN: Capriccio brillant / Rondo brilliant

LISZT: Totentanz / MENDELSSOHN: Capriccio brillant / Rondo brillant

MAHLER: Symphony No. 1, "Titan"

MOZART: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41

NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor

NIELSEN: Violin Concerto / Aladdin Suite (excerpts)

ORFF: Carmina Burana

PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf / The Love for Three Oranges Suite / Scythian Suite

PUCCINI: La Boheme

PURCELL: Come, ye sons of art away

RACHMANINOV: Symphony No. 2

RESPIGHI: La Boutique fantasque / IBERT: Divertissement / PISTON: The Incredible Flutist Suite

ROSSINI: Opera Overtures

SAINT-SAENS: Cello Concerto No. 1 / MYASKOVSKY: Cello Concerto

SCHOENBERG: Wind Quintet

SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished" / BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

SCHUMANN: Liederkreis / WOLF: Morike Lieder (excerpts)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7, "Leningrad"

SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto / Scenes historiques II

J STRAUSS II: Graduation Ball (arr. Dorati) / WEBER: Invitation to the Dance (arr. Berlioz)

SULLIVAN: Pineapple Poll (arr. Mackerras) (excerpts) / VERDI: The Lady and the Fool (arr. Mackerras)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 / LISZT: Hungarian Fantasy

TORELLI: Concerti Grossi, Op. 8, Nos. 2, 3, 6 / Violin Concertos, Op. 8, Nos. 9, 12

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: English Folk Song Suite (excerpts) / Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 / Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

VERDI: Rigoletto

WALTON: Orb and Sceptre / BAX: Coronation March / ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos. 1, 4 / Imperial March

WEILL: Der Jasager (Kohler) / DESSAU: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (excerpts, sung in French)

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