Niklas Eklund, the renowned Swedish trumpet player, has died aged 56. 

A gala concert celebrating the 2025 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) took place recently in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, during which the winners in the various categories were formally acknowledged.

The renowned Soviet-Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina has died aged 93.

The Board of Directors of the Naxos Music Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Matthias Lutzweiler as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Naxos Music Group, effective immediately.

Recordings from Naxos and its affiliated labels were among the recently announced nominations for the 2025 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA).

Game developers will be able to access Naxos’ classical, cultural, world, folk and regional music catalogues in a significant expansion of Reactional’s music delivery platform

Leif Segerstam, the renowned Finnish conductor, composer, violinist and pianist, has died aged 80.

Launched in 2004 as an online streaming service and educational resource for classical music, the Naxos Music Library catalogue now offers individual and institutional subscribers access to a milestone three million tracks.

Associates of the Naxos Music Group were saddened to learn of the recent passing of German composer Wolfgang Rihm, at the age of 72.

The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced the Awards for 2024.

Recordings from Naxos and its affiliated labels were among the recently announced nominations for the 2024 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA).

Naxos is delighted to have received a 2024 GRAMMY Awards nomination in the Best Orchestral Performance category…

The winners of the 2023 International Opera Awards were announced in a ceremony held at Teatr Wielki, Warsaw, Poland, on 9 November.

Naxos’ affiliated label Ondine was delighted to receive two prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Awards this year.

Dario Salvi, the Scottish-Italian conductor, musicologist and researcher who specialises in the restoration and performance of rare works, was recently awarded the “Riccardo Drigo” Music for Ballet Prize

All at Naxos were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Hungarian pianist Jenő Jandó.

Klaus Heymann, founder and Chairman of the Naxos Music Group, has been awarded the medal of Commander of the Order of Rio Branco by the Brazilian government for his contribution to Brazil’s classical music heritage through the award-winning ‘Music of Brazil’ series on Naxos.

Associates of the Naxos Music Group were saddened to learn of the recent passing of composer Kaija Saariaho, one of the leading figures in 20th- and 21st-century music.

All at Naxos were saddened to learn of the passing of Barry Humphries, the highly popular entertainer who connected globally with audiences via a range of artistic platforms that included music, drama and comedy.

The Naxos Music Group is proud to team up with Cathay Pacific in launching the Naxos Channel on the airline’s in-flight entertainment system from February 2023 onwards.

All at Naxos were saddened to learn of the passing of Keith Anderson following a distinguished life of music performance, broadcasting and scholarship.

Naxos Records has been named this year’s ‘Label of the Year’ by the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA).

The Naxos Music Group expresses its condolences at the news of the passing of pianist Michael Ponti, a week before what would have been his 85th birthday.

When a composer’s work is marked as his or her Opus 100, it surely marks a milestone in their development.

All at the Naxos Music Group were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of pianist/conductor Lars Vogt at the age of 51.

All at Naxos were saddened to hear of the passing of American pianist, teacher and author Joseph Banowetz on 3 July, aged 87.

Naxos artist and internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop features in The Conductor, an engaging new documentary directed by Bernadette Wegenstein that is currently being screened in cinemas across the US and in Canada.

All at Naxos send their congratulations to American composer Kenneth Fuchs on receiving the 3rd Annual Composer Award from the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation.

Naxos sends its congratulations to Catalan composer Leonardo Balada, who has won this year’s XVIII SGAE Prize for Ibero-American Music ‘Tomás Luis de Victoria’. Organised by the SGAE Foundation, the award recognises Balada’s substantial contribution to the enrichment of the musical heritage of Ibero-American communities through his creative work and “for the universality of his musical language.”

Recordings from Naxos and its affiliated labels were among the recently announced nominations for the 2022 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA).

All at Naxos send their warmest congratulations to Julian Lloyd Webber following his inclusion in The Queen’s 2021 Birthday Honours List on the 11th of June.

Recordings from the Naxos label are among the recently announced nominations for the 2021 OPUS Klassik Awards, Germany’s most prestigious awards body for classical music.

Naxos is pleased to relate the announcement that Marin Alsop, one of the label’s major recording artists, has been named Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today, the popular American classical music radio programme.

Naxos is delighted to be among the recipients of this year’s GRAMMY Awards, announced on 14 March.

John Georgiadis, the British violinist, conductor and Naxos artist, has died at the age of 81.

We hope you will enjoy these selections and more from Naxos Records.

Naxos is pleased to announce the worldwide launch of its high-definition and lossless classical music streaming service.

Madison Gate Records recently announced the release in digital form of the soundtrack album for the upcoming, critically-acclaimed feature film, ‘Love is Strange’; the CD follows soon.

On 6 December 2013, artists, engineers and composers from the Naxos distribution family were honoured with 7 GRAMMY nominations for recordings across four labels—Naxos, Dacapo, Dorian Sono Luminus and Ondine.

Naxos Music Library is proud to announce the addition of the Sony Classical label to its streaming audio collection.

Naxos is delighted to announce that its recording of Shostakovich 10th symphony with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko won the Gramophone’s 2011 Orchestral Award.

Naxos Music Library is proud to announce the addition of the EMI Classical and Jazz catalogue to its streaming audio collection.

The Association of German Record Critics has awarded Steve Reich “Phase to Face” with the German Record Critics’ Award.

Naxos is delighted to announce an outstanding result at this year’s GRAMMY Awards.

Naxos, the world’s leading classical music label enters into the Blu-ray Audio market.

Music of The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto is available from HNH International Limited. Full score and parts are available for hire.

Founded in 2005 as the successor of the Cannes Classical Awards, the MIDEM Classical Awards 2010 recognize creativity, innovation of repertoire and artistic excellence in classical music.

This year Naxos will make a number of new recordings featuring leading artists. Here are some of the exciting highlights from our recording schedule to whet your appetite.

For a real treat, watch an exceptional master class run by Maxim Vengerov that includes the acclaimed British violinist Chloë Hanslip, who was only 11-year-old at the time, on YouTube:

On January 10, Naxos releases the 4th and final recording in a series of orchestral transcriptions by Leopold Stokowski led by Stokowski’s protégé, the GRAMMY award-winning conductor and composer José Serebrier, and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

American composer, conductor, and music administrator, Dr. Kenneth Fuchs has received numerous awards and honors for his music, including the Charles E. Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, grants from Meet The Composer, the ASCAP Foundation, the American Bandmasters Association, and residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico.

Earlier this month, Marin Alsop finished her successful six-year tenure as Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Most classical musicians no longer adhere to the idea that their genre is somehow superior to all other forms of music.

Naxos’ recording of Elliott Carter’s String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5 (8.559362), featuring the Pacifica Quartet, is currently the most downloaded classical album on eMusic and tops the eMusic classical music chart.

“Peter & the Wolf” – released on DVD by Arthaus Musik – was awarded an OSCAR^® for “Best animated short film”.