Naxos recordings regularly gain top ratings from respected music publications and websites. The 2009 Penguin Guide gives star ratings to more than 600 fine Naxos recordings, including this small selection of top-rating albums, many of which are recent releases and have been highly praised by other respected music critics. You’d be hard pressed to find such a diversity of repertoire in such acclaimed performances on any other label.
Fasch: Passio Jesu Christi • Suite in D Minor
Handel: Messiah (1751 Version)
Mendelssohn, Felix: String Quartets, Vol. 1 – String Quartets Nos. 1, 4, 6
ARNOLD, M.: Symphonies (Complete)
Bloch: 4 Episodes • 2 Poems • Concertino • Suite Modale
Grieg: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3: Symphony in C Minor • Old Norwegian Romance With Variations
Respighi: Vetrate Di Chiesa • Impressioni Brasiliane • Rossiniana
Roussel, A.: Symphony No. 2 • Pour Une Fete De Printemps • Suite in F Major
Roussel, A.: Bacchus et Ariane (Bacchus and Ariadne) • Symphony No. 3
Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue • Aria Variata • French Overture
Kraus: Symphonies, Vol. 1
Kraus: Symphonies, Vol. 2
Kraus: Symphonies, Vol. 3
Kraus: Symphonies, Vol. 4
Perry: The Innocents Abroad and other Mark Twain Films
Rodrigo: Piano Music, Vol. 2
Abe: Symphony No. 1 • Divertimento • Sinfonietta
Alfvén: Synnöve Solbakken Suite • En Bygdesaga • Elégie
Alwyn: Piano Music, Vol. 1
L. Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1
Arnold, M.: Chamber Music for Winds
Bach, J.C.: 6 Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 17
Bach: Keyboard Works, Vol. 1 – 12 Polonaises • Sonata, Fk. 3
Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle
Bax: Piano Works, Vol. 4 – Music for 2 Pianos
Lennox Berkeley: String Quartets Nos. 1–3
BERNSTEIN: Dybbuk • Fancy Free
Bloch: Violin Concerto • Baal Shem • Suite Hebraique
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 • Hungarian Dances Nos. 2, 4–9
Bridge: Piano Music, Vol. 2
Busoni: Violin Sonatas • 4 Bagatelles
Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne (excerpts)
DANZI: Wind Quintets, Op. 67, Nos. 1–3
Danzi: Wind Quintets, Op. 68, Nos. 1–3 • Horn Sonata, Op. 44
Dittersdorf: Symphonies in D Major, A Major and E-Flat Major
Duruflé: Organ Music (Complete)
Elgar: Orchestral Miniatures
ELGAR: Symphonies (Complete)
Gardner: Piano Concerto No. 1 • Symphony No. 1 • Midsummer Ale Overture
Gibbons: Hymnes and Songs of the Church
Godard: Violin Concerto No. 2 • Concerto Romantique • Scenes Poetiques
Haydn: Ritorno Di Tobia (Il)
Haydn: Symphonies, Vol. 32 (Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12)
Herrmann: Snows of Kilimanjaro (The) • 5 Fingers
Herrmann • Newman: Egyptian (The)
Hill, Alfred: String Quartets, Vol. 1
Howells: Hymnus Paradisi • Sir Patrick Spens
Hummel: Oberons Zauberhorn • Variations On Das Fest Der Handwerker • Le Retour De Londres
Korngold: Sea Hawk (The) • Deception
Kraus: Violin Concerto • Olympie • Azire
Lilburn: Orchestral Works
Martinů, B.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2
Maxwell Davies: Naxos Quartets Nos. 5 & 6
Maxwell Davies: Naxos Quartets Nos. 7 & 8
Parsons, R.: First Great Service • Responds for the Dead
Pärt: Music for Unaccompanied Choir
Persichetti: Divertimento • Masquerade • Parable IX
Porter: String Quartets, Vol. 1
Rachmaninov: Music for 2 Pianos
Rodrigo: Guitar Works, Vol. 1
Rorem: Double Concerto • After Reading Shakespeare
Rossini: La Donna Del Lago
Rossini: Mose in Egitto (1819 Naples Version)
Scarlatti, D.: Stabat Mater • Missa Breve, ‘La Stella’ • Te Deum • Magnificat
Schoenberg, A.: Chamber Symphony No. 2 • Die Gluckliche Hand • Wind Quintet
Schubert: Mass No. 6 in E-Flat Major • Stabat Mater
Sibelius: Scenes Historiques I and II • King Christian II Suite
Strauss II: Jabuka (Das Apfelfest)
Stravinsky: 125th Anniversary Album: The Rite of Spring • Violin Concerto
Tansman: Chamber Music With Clarinet
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites (Transcriptions for Piano 4 Hands)
