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Naxos.com offers access to all the labels of the Naxos group of companies as well as to Artek, BR-Klassik, C Major, Campanella Musica, Capriccio, Capriole, Carpe Diem, CD Accord, Dacapo, Cedille, First Edition, Ondine, Phoenix Edition, Newton Classics, OUR Recordings, Solo Musica, Dorian Sono Luminus, TwoPianists, Vienna Philharmonic, White Cloud, Naxos Classical Archives and Naxos Rock Legends. Also represented on the site are the leading independent international DVD labels: Arthaus, Christopher Nupen, Euroarts, Ideale Audience, Opus Arte, and TDK. Many different genres are available, mostly classical but also modern and historical jazz, world music, nostalgia and contemporary instrumental. Click on the logo of each label to find out what albums are available for streaming and, in the case of the DVD labels, watch the available promo clips.
Naxos/Marco Polo/Amadis
	Naxos This is the world's leading classical label in terms of the number of new releases and the depth and breadth of its catalogue. View Catalogue »	Naxos Classical Archives Naxos Classical Archives has an extensive list of digitally transferred historical recordings. View Catalogue »
	Naxos Educational Naxos sees it as its mission to promote the appreciation and understanding of classical music and has produced a wide range of educational texts and recordings. View Catalogue »	Naxos Historical This label is devoted to keeping the great recordings of the past alive and accessible. View Catalogue »
	Naxos Jazz A truly international jazz label offering the finest contemporary jazz from around the world and featuriing artists and ensembles from the United States, Scandinavia, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. View Catalogue »	Naxos Jazz Legends This label is devoted to the great jazz musicians of the past, from Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong to Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Django Reinhardt. View Catalogue »
	Naxos Nostalgia This label offers access to the stars of popular music of the first half of the 20th century, from Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland to Fred Astaire, Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. View Catalogue »	Naxos Portara Portara, an imprint of the Naxos label, features digital-only classical music releases. Portara strives to offer world class performances of both beloved and lesser known music, encompassing music from ancient to modern. The imprint's initial release will be a recording of Grammy winning composer John Williams' Horn Concerto. View Catalogue »
	Naxos Rock Legends Naxos Rock Legends focuses on rock and pop recordings from the 1950s, encompassing a significant collection of these within numbered volumes entitled 'The History of Rock and Roll'. View Catalogue »	Naxos World This label offers the traditional or folk music of many countries around the world. Chinese ethnic and cultural music are particular strengths of Naxos World. View Catalogue »
	Naxos - Marco Polo DVD This series includes visual interpretations of classical music, marrying the recordings to images from the composers' home countries View Catalogue »	Marco Polo When the label was launched in 1982 it was the first label devoted to world premiere recordings mostly of repertoire from the second half of the 19th and the early part of the 20th century. View Catalogue »
	Amadis This is the super-budget label of the Naxos family of labels. It offers a wide range of original recordings of the core classical repertoire but also titles deleted from the Naxos catalogue. View Catalogue »	Middle Kingdom This is a small label focused on Chinese instrumental music. View Catalogue »
	Yellow River Chinese This label focuses on Chinese classical and ethnic music. The catalogue comprises more than 60 titles, all recorded in China. View Catalogue »
Naxos Audiobooks
	Naxos Audiobooks Award-Winning AudioBook label offering a wide range of abridged and unabridged digital recordings of the world's greatest literature. View Catalogue »	Naxos Hörbücher The German equivalent of Naxos Audiobooks, this label offers recordings of German classic literature, from Goethe to Kafka. View Catalogue »
Naxos Books
	Naxos Books Naxos Books is a diverse and forward-thinking imprint, which embraces both popular and specialist titles within the world of classical music. View Catalogue »
Other CD Labels
	Ars Nova Records Recordings from one of Scandinavia's leading chamber choirs in the field of polyphonic Renaissance music and experimental vocal music of our own time. View Catalogue »	Artek This musician-run label represents many of today's established and emerging classical artists and orchestras, such as the Takacs Quartet, Jennifer Frautschi, Elmar Oliveira, Aaron Rosand, Julian Sitkovetsky, the Seattle Symphony and the Liverpool Philharmonic. View Catalogue »
	Basel Symphony Orchestra The Basel Symphony Orchestra (Sinfonieorchester Basel) is one of Switzerland’s major orchestras and appears both in concert and at the opera house. For decades it has produced a wide array of highlights under the batons of such conductors as Felix Weingartner, Hans Münch, Moshe Atzmon, Matthias Bamert, Gary Bertini, Pierre Boulez, Armin Jordan, Nello Santi, Mario Venzago and Walter Weller. Its CD recordings of the music of Robert Schumann, Maurice Ravel, Klaus Huber, Luigi Nono and Othmar Schoeck have received great international acclaim and many awards. ‘A Different Schumann’, for example, was awarded the Golden Tuning Fork from the German music industry. View Catalogue »	BBC Legends The award-winning BBC Legends archive label is sourced from the BBC's own archive from 1938 to the early 1990s. The special interest label is focused on historical recordings of great conductors and outstanding soloists. Aimed at music aficionados and collectors, the label today is produced and internationally distributed by EuroArts Music International in collaboration with Select UK/Naxos. View Catalogue »
	BR-Klassik BR-Klassik is the label of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Symphonieorchester des Bayerische Rundfunk), Bavarian Radio Chorus, and the Munich Radio Orchestra (Münchner Rundfunkorchester), devoted to making performances of its symphony orchestra more widely available. The orchestra's high standards are well represented on recordings of excellent quality. Chief conductor Mariss Jansons appears on several, including Haydn's Harmoniemesse with the Bavarian Radio Choir, and Mahler's Symphony No. 7. View Catalogue »	Campanella Musica Campanella Musica is the chamber music sub-label of Solo Musica. The artists themselves are fully in control of their recordings which are then presented to the public in beautifully-packed albums. View Catalogue »
	Cantaloupe Music Cantaloupe Music is a record label created in March 2001 by the three founders of New York's legendary Bang on a Can Festival: composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, and Bang on a Can managing director Kenny Savelson. Cantaloupe Music has made a massive impact in the new music community, and been recognized by critics and fans around the globe for its adventurous sounds. Cantaloupe Music's goal is to provide a home for "music that slips between the cracks." View Catalogue »	Capriccio The classic music label Capriccio was founded by Delta Music in 1982. From the beginning, it was not this label's aim to compete with the major companies and their classical labels, their stars and their vast archives. View Catalogue »
	Capriole Originally Laserlight, this label covers a healthy breadth of core repertoire. Included in its list are many acknowledged and adored masterpieces from the Baroque to modern repertoire, including music by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi and Wagner. View Catalogue »	Carpe Diem Carpe Diem is a record label for Early Music, New Music and Improvised Music - a label for border crossers. Carpe Diem was founded in 2008 by the balance engineers Jonas Niederstadt and Johannes Wallbrecher. Among the artists who recorded with Carpe Diem are renowned stars, including Michel Godard, Hille Perl and William Dongois, and many young talents who are set to become famous. Carpe Diem records in old churches, monasteries and historic concert halls that offer ideal conditions for the instruments played and the sound being recorded. CDs not available in Australia through Naxos. View Catalogue »
	CD Accord The award-winning label CD Accord was established in 1995 and records the most distinguished Polish composers, soloists, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra and choruses. Important repertoire for the company includes music by Jarzebski, Chopin, Wieniawski, Moniuszko, Karlowicz, Szymanowski, Bacewicz, Lutoslawski, Panufnik, Penerecki, Kilar, Gorecki and Szymanski. View Catalogue »	Cedille This is the label of the Chicago Classical Recording Foundation, which is an organization devoted to promoting the finest musicians in the Chicago area. It regularly offers unusual repertoire which has been overlooked by other record companies. Available for downloading and streaming worldwide. CDs not available in Australia through Naxos. View Catalogue »
	Dacapo This is the Danish national recording label with a rich collection of Danish music from the Middle Ages to the present. There is also contemporary jazz and experimental music from Denmark. View Catalogue »	Delos The legendary classical label Delos, "long a leader in audiophile-quality recordings" (New York Times), has initiated significant trends in the classical music industry, has recorded some of the most honored names in the classical music field, and was a pioneer in digital recording View Catalogue »
	Divox Based in Switzerland, Divox AG/Ltd was founded in 1984 and began with a focus on the promotion of emerging chamber music artists. It now has four sub-labels, covering music from ancient to modern by mainstream and less familiar composers. Divox has always been committed to individual musicians and their artistic unfoldment, as well to the audiophile quality of the recordings themselves. View Catalogue »	Dorian Sono Luminus The American label Dorian Sono Luminus boasts a wide variety of classical recordings spanning several centuries and many musical genres and styles. Titles include music by Bach, symphonies by Shostakovich, English Mad Songs and Ayres, Argentinian concert music, works for lute, masterpieces from the romantic repertoire, vocal recitals, and hundreds of other outstanding recordings. CDs not available in Australia through Naxos. View Catalogue »
	DSO Live The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of music director Jaap van Zweden, presents the finest in classical music at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, regarded as one of the world’s première concert halls. In November 2011 van Zweden was named as the recipient of Musical America’s Conductor of the Year Award 2012 in recognition of his critically acclaimed work as music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and as a guest conductor with the most prestigious US orchestras. View Catalogue »	First Edition This label offers re-issues of the famous Louisville Orchestra recordings from the 1960's and 1970's, including many world-premiere recordings of 20th century repertoire. View Catalogue »
	Grand Piano Grand Piano is a new premium label dedicated to the exploration of undiscovered repertoire for piano. Launched in March 2012, the label features recordings of interesting rare works that might otherwise have remained unknown and unrecorded. The label's specialty is multi-volume recordings and complete piano cycles of lesser known composers, including Joachim Raff, Moisey Weinberg, Erwin Schulhoff, and Alexander Tcherepnin. Pulling from a deep pool of talent around the globe, Grand Piano brings to life exciting interpretations of these gems of the keyboard repertoire. The label will release about 10 to 15 new titles each year, including many world premières. Grand Piano's 2012 releases are adorned with figurative paintings by the award-winning artist Gro Thorsen. View Catalogue »	ICA Classics ICA Classics, a division of the management agency International Classical Artists Ltd, features both archive material from sources such as the BBC, WDR in Cologne and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (the LEGACY series), as well as performances from the agency's own artists recorded in prestigious venues around the world (the LIVE series). The majority of the recordings, on CD and DVD, are enjoying their first commercial release. View Catalogue »
	Idil Biret Archive In a recording career of more than fifty years the Turkish pianist Idil Biret made over eighty LPs and CDs for ten record labels in Europe and the USA including Véga, Decca, Atlantic (Warner), EMI and Naxos as well as recordings for many radio and television stations around the world. Idil Biret Archive was established in 2002 with the aim to make available to the public the many recordings Idil Biret made since she first entered the studios of Radiodiffusion -Télévision Française in Paris at the age of eight. As the copyrights are obtained old recordings are being released together with her new recordings. The IBA emblem embodies the engraving of an angel by Albrecht Dürer presented to Idil Biret by Nadia Boulanger with the following inscription: "To my little Idil. Christmas 1959. May the Angel protect her on the beautiful and dangerous path she has engaged herself in. With all my heart." View Catalogue »	MDR Klassik MDR KLASSIK is the new classical label of MITTELDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK (MDR) and its Leipzig Radio symphony orchestra and Radio Choir, launched in August 2012. The Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra is Germany’s oldest radio orchestra and the MDR Leipzig Radio Choir is the country’s largest broadcasting station choir. Both can be heard regularly in the concert hall and in radio and television broadcasts, performing a wide-ranging repertoire. Outstanding concerts and performances by these dynamic and innovative ensembles, including rarely heard works, are now available to all fans and music lovers on the new MDR Klassik label. View Catalogue »
	Music Agents Red Label The Music Agents Red Label offers artists a full range of services, such as manufacturing, promotion, marketing, and worldwide distribution of recordings (both digital and physical products), as well as contacts to booking agencies and merchandising companies. View Catalogue »	Newton Classics The Dutch based record label Newton Classics was founded in 2009. Most of its recordings, sourced from major record labels and provided with new booklet notes and packaging, have not been available for many years. The choice of recordings is driven by musical quality and value as well as proven popularity with classical music lovers. Newton Classics aims to build a catalogue of around 1500 titles and this will include brand new recordings starting in 2012-13. View Catalogue »
	Oehms Classic Oehms is the brainchild of Dieter Oehms. After working for 35 years in the recording industry (DG/Poygram and Arte Nova/BMG), he created this independent label in 2003. Artists include Pascal Rogé and James Levine; repertoire is very varied, including Haydn's Creation, Bruckner symphonies and piano music from Armenia. View Catalogue »	Ondine The Finnish label Ondine's extensive catalogue includes more than four hundred recordings of leading Finnish and international artists and ensembles. Many have been critically acclaimed, garnering many awards along the way. View Catalogue »
	Other Minds Other Minds Records, a project of Other Minds in San Francisco, produces a select catalogue of contemporary music exploring the new, the unusual, and the often underrepresented geniuses of new music. View Catalogue »	OUR Recordings Created in late 2006, OUR Recordings was established as a musical showcase featuring the talents of Michala Petri, the preeminent recorder virtuoso of her generation and the visionary musical explorations of long-time-duo-partner, guitarist and lute player Lars Hannibal. www.ourrecordings.com View Catalogue »
	Paladino Music The Austrian label paladino music has its focus on Austrian artists and their musical heritage and also takes a deep interest in developing young European musicians' recording careers. View Catalogue »	Phoenix Edition The new label Phoenix Edition is the brainchild of Johannes Kernmayer, for many years artistic director at Capriccio. View Catalogue »
	Solo Musica The German label Solo Musica works closely at all stages with the outstanding musicians, both composers and performers, featured on its recordings. Traditional and unconventional classical music finds a home on this boutique label. Its artists include Markus Becker, Julius Berger, Casal Quartet, Diana Damrau, Friedemann Eichhorn, Gewandhaus Quartet, Peter Horton, Kalandos Ensemble, Hansjorg Schellenberger and many more. View Catalogue »	Tafelmusik Media Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Canada’s award-winning orchestra on period instruments, has become an internationally recognised ensemble that reaches millions of people through its extensive touring, critically acclaimed recordings, broadcasts, new media, and artistic-community partnerships. Founded in 1979 by Kenneth Solway and Susan Graves, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra has been under the inspired leadership of music director Jeanne Lamon since 1981. At the heart of Tafelmusik is a group of talented and dynamic permanent members, each of whom is a specialist in historical performance practice. View Catalogue »
	Timpani Records The French label Timpani Records was created in 1990 and quickly became unbeatable for French repertoire from the end of the 19th century and from the 20th century. More than 200 recordings feature music by Pierné, Honegger, d’Indy, Xenakis and many others. View Catalogue »	TwoPianists TwoPianists Records is an independent music company based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, founded by the pianists Nina Schumann and Luis Magalhães. TwoPianist aims to recognize the unique talents of all their artists and to provide them with a platform on all professional levels - publishing, recording, performing and image licensing. Every project is an individual adventure and artistic journey. In a fast-changing and somewhat unpredictable arena, TwoPianist is excited by the possibilities and challenges of reinventing classical music within an international milieu. TwoPianist believes that the sincerity and quality of its music-making will be recognized globally. View Catalogue »
	Vienna Philharmonic In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, the Vienna Philharmonic has published under its own auspices a special edition of selected symphonies which includes outstanding interpretations conducted by Pierre Boulez, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta and Franz Welser-Most. Other recordings of this great orchestra will be issued on the Vienna Philharmonic label. View Catalogue »	Vienna Symphony Orchestra The city of Vienna’s famous orchestra proudly presents its own label “Wiener Symphoniker”. This new label will offer carefully considered recording projects with emphasis on reputable repertoire and high quality, rather than following an industry which is increasingly focused on individual stars and starlets. View Catalogue »
	White Cloud The brainchild of Jon Mark [of Mark Almond Band fame], this label offers ambient, soft jazz, Celtic and world music, combining both contemporary and traditional styles. View Catalogue »	Yarlung Records GRAMMY^® Award-winning Yarlung Records brings fresh musicians to the classical music world using minimalist audiophile recording techniques to deliver sound as close to living performance as possible. Rather than using recording studios, engineer Bob Attiyeh produces these albums in concert halls famous for their acoustics, including Walt Disney Concert Hall and Ambassador Hall in Los Angeles. Yarlung uses both analog tape and high resolution digital media for CDs made with special alloys, high resolution digital downloads, and 180 Gram vinyl LPs, all mastered by Steve Hoffman. Yarlung repertoire ranges from the 11th century through the baroque, classical and romantic eras, with a special focus on new music from the 20th and 21st centuries. Artists include top soloists as well as superstar young musicians at the beginnings of their international concert careers. Yarlung brings artists into your living room; you can hear their music, their breathing, and almost their heartbeats. View Catalogue »
Other DVD Labels
	Accentus Music Founded in 2010 and based in Leipzig, a center of classical music, Accentus Music produces high profile concert and opera recordings worldwide, as well as feature-length documentaries and portraits. Both artistically and technically, Accentus Music meets the highest expectations of music lovers around the world. View Catalogue »	Arthaus Musik This pioneering German DVD label offers a wide range of opera and ballet performances, live concerts and documentaries featuring some of the world's leading opera houses and ballet companies, orchestras and artists. View Catalogue »
	C Major C Major DVD includes performances by Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein and other legendary classical music stars as well as Anna Netrebko, Placido Domingo and Cecilia Bartoli in more than 2,100 programs of music & art on film and TV formats. Since 2006, C Major Entertainment has distributed the unique UNITEL Catalogue. View Catalogue »	Christopher Nupen This DVD label offers the films shown in the retrospective series on British television devoted to this legendary producer of classical music films. View Catalogue »
	EPC Distribution The EPC Distribution (EPCD) parent label has been set up specifically to enable the world’s most celebrated opera houses to produce and release the very best of their stage productions under their own, world famous brands. EPCD is committed to producing exceptional Blu-ray, DVD and CD titles with particular emphasis on Blu-ray of the finest high definition quality. Majority of the label’s releases focuses on current-season content and a selection of classic archive recordings. View Catalogue »	Euroarts This is the label of one of the leading production companies in the field of classical music and jazz. View Catalogue »
	ICA Classics ICA Classics, a division of the management agency International Classical Artists Ltd, features both archive material from sources such as the BBC, WDR in Cologne and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (the LEGACY series), as well as performances from the agency's own artists recorded in prestigious venues around the world (the LIVE series). The majority of the recordings, on CD and DVD, are enjoying their first commercial release. View Catalogue »	Ideale Audience This French-based label produces documentary and music films including the collections Classic Archive and Piano Nights at the Roque d'Antheron. View Catalogue »
	Opus Arte DVD label for music and arts embracing opera, dance, concerts and portraits, providing highest quality audiovisual entertainment. View Catalogue »	TDK DVD Concerts, ballet and opera performances and documentaries from around the world in state-of-the-art audio and video quality. View Catalogue »

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