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!

Naxos DVDs

2.110224
The Full Monteverdi

Opera Today - BRILLIANT

2.110258
VERDI Macbeth

Classical Net - DELICIOUSLY TWISTED RENDITION…STRONGLY RECOMMENDED

2.110263
GIORDANO Marcella

MusicWeb International
- FINE, IMPASSIONED SINGING

2.110266
PUCCINI La Rondine

Classical Net - RECOMMENDED

Naxos CDs

8.111004
Furtwängler
The Early Recordings Vol 3

MusicWeb International - ENABLES US TO DEEPEN OUR APPRECIATION OF THE CONDUCTOR'S ART

8.111328
PUCCINI Suor Angelica

MusicWeb International
- EASILY MERITS AN IMPORTANT
PLACE IN THE CATALOGUE

8.506019
HAYDN Complete Concertos

Classical Net - RECOMMENDED

8.550467
TCHAIKOVSKY/ARENSKY
Piano Trios

American Record Guide - A SUPERB JOB…AND THE SOUND IS IDEAL

8.557808
David Martinez Guitar Recital

MusicWeb International
- UNDISCOVERED AND UNDER-RECOGNIZED TREASURES

8.559352
GIANINI Symphony No 4
Piano Concerto

Fanfare - DAZZLING COMBINATION OF PASSION AND PRECISION

8.559378
JONES Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra, Symphony No 3
‘Palo Duro Canyon’

gatheringnote.org
- BROAD SWEEPING MUSIC

8.559601
CORIGLIANO Circus Maximus

Bandworld
- YOUR IMAGINATION & MUSIC SENSES WILL BE WELL REWARDED

8.559618
GERBER Chamber Music

MusicWeb International
- DIVERSE MODERN CHAMBER WORKS SPLENDIDLY PERFORMED

8.559635
DAUGHERTY
Metropolis Symphony
Deus ex Machina

Film Music: The Neglected Art
- INSPIRED BY THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SUPERMAN IN COMICS

8.570211
GLAZUNOV Complete Orchestral Works Vol 18

MusicWeb International
- APPEALING YET VERY RARE MUSIC PERFORMED WITH GREAT APLOMB

8.570322
SVENDSEN
Norwegian Rhapsodies

Film Music: The Neglected Art
- RECOMMENDED

8.570402
TURINA Violin and Piano Music

Ritmo - 4 STARS

8.570435
SCHWARZ-SCHILLING
Sinfonia diatonica
Symphony in C major
Introduction and Fugue

insideCatholic - I AM VERY TOUCHED AND MOVED BY THIS MUSIC

8.570480
SCHUBERT Lied Edition 30
- Poets of Sensibility Vol 6

American Record Guide - KOBOV HAS ONE OF THE FINEST VOICES FOR LIEDER TO BE HEARD TODAY

8.570507
IRELAND Piano Trios

BBC Music Magazine - 5 STARS

8.570560
ALWYN String Quartets Nos 1-3

Fanfare - RECOMMEND[ED]…MOST ENTHUSIASTICALLY

8.570584
TANEYEV Oresteya Overture
and Interlude & Other Works

MusicWeb International
- A SUPERIOR DISC

8.570706
JANÁĆEK
Operatic Orchestral Suites Vol 3
- The Cunning Little Vixen
From the House of the Dead

Classics Today - 9/9

8.570722
SZYMANOWSKI
Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

The Buffalo News - RESTLESS, PROTEAN AND EXTRAORDINARY TALENT

8.570774
BAX Symphonic Variations
Concertante for Piano Left Hand

Dallas Morning News
- IMMEDIATELY APPEALING

8.570779
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Music for Two Guitars Vol 2

MusicWeb International
- LAP UP EVERY MINUTE

8.570792
BRIDGE Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2
Miniatures

Albion Magazine - SPLENDID!

8.570874
PIZZETTI Concerto dell'estate
La festa delle Panatenee

allmusic - 4 STARS

8.570938
FAURÉ Piano Quintets

MusicWeb International
- TWO MAGICAL, ENCHANTING CHAMBER WORKS IN ALLURING PERFORMANCES

8.570950
A SCARLATTI Euridice dall'Inferno, La Concettione della Beata Vergine

Gramophone
- SCARLATTI FULLY DESERVES HIS GRADUAL REHABILITATION

8.571258
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 4
- Nos 23, 28 & 31
(Biret Beethoven Edition Vol 8)

Classical Net - SPLENDID…IMPOSING…EXCELLENT SOUND

8.571270
SCHUMANN/GRIEG
Piano Concertos

MusicWeb International
- VERY WORTHWHILE

8.572048
ZEMLINSKY Lyric Symphony

allmusic.com
- AMONG THE FINEST EVER RECORDED

8.572051
SCHUBERT
'Death and the Maiden'
& 'Unfinished' Symphonies

Minnesota Public Radio
- ANOTHER SPECIAL TREAT

8.572076
BRETON Escenas andaluzas,
En la Alhambra, Opera Preludes

Fanfare - WELCOME COLLECTION...
LOTS OF FUN

8.572138
SHOSTAKOVICH The Girlfriends, Rule, Britannia!, Salute to Spain, Symphonic Movement (1945)

allmusic.com - WELL WORTH HEARING

8.572231
Millenium Canons

Audiophile Audition - 4 STARS

8.660215
RAVEL L'Enfant et les sortilèges, Shéhérazade

American Record Guide - JAZZY EXUBERANCE MIXED WITH DELICACY

8.559622-23
BERNSTEIN Mass

Toronto Star - GREAT RECORDING

8.660227-28
STRAUSS II Fürstin Ninetta

American Record Guide
- EXCELLENT CAST

8.669016-17
TAYLOR Peter Ibbeston

Opera News - IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A BETTER READING OF THE SCORE

9.80677
BARTÓK Music for Strings
Percussion and Celesta
STRAVINSKY Chant du rossignol

MusicWeb International - ONE OF THE JEWELS OF THE [NAXOS CLASSICAL ARCHIVES] HISTORICAL CATALOGUE

Naxos Audiobooks

NA219812
Classic American Poetry

AudioFilemagazine.com
- EXCELLENT SELECTION

NA224212
PEARSON Arthur Conan Doyle
– A Life

AudioFilemagazine.com
- ENTERTAINING THROUGHOUT

NA436512
STERNE Tristram Shandy

Publishers Weekly
- FIRST COMPLETE AND FAITHFUL RECORDING ON AUDIOBOOK

NA496312
CHESTERTON The Innocence of Father Brown Vol 1

Audiofilemagazine.com - DAVID TIMSON READS…WITH LOVING CARE

NA697512
TREMAIN Music and Silence (Abridged)

Publishers Weekly - MUSIC IS CLOSELY INTERWOVEN WITH THE STORY

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Capriccio

C10721
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
- Christmas Canatas and Concertos

Fanfare - RAVISHINGLY BEAUTIFUL

C5002
SCHNITTKE Film Music Vol 4

Classical Lost and Found
- A SONIC EXTRAVAGANZA OF CONSIDERABLE PROPORTIONS

C5012
Venetian Brass - Works by Gabrieli and His Contemproaries

allmusic.com
- VALUABLE INTRODUCTION TO THE POLYCHORAL STYLE

C5017
DAVID Le Desert

MusicWeb International
- SMOOTHLY ROMANTIC

See all Capriccio Recordings

Dacapo

6.220516
LANGGAARD
Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

allmusic.com - COGENCY AND POLISH

6.220519
LANGGAARD
Symphonies Nos 15 & 16

allmusic.com - COGENCY AND POLISH

6.220533
GUDMUNDSEN-HOLGREEN
Plateaux, For Piano

San Francisco Chronicle - EXCELLENT…
WONDERFULLY IDIOSYNCRATIC

6.220547
NØRGÅRD Symphonies Nos 3 & 7

American Record Guide
- ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST RELEASES

6.220562
Romantic Violin Concertos
- GADE/LANGE-MULLER/LANGGAARD

Classical Lost and Found
- THRILLING PERFORMANCES

8.226034
RUDERS Concertos

The New York Times
- HIGH ENERGY PERFORMANCE

8.226054
JENSEN Flute Sonatas, Fantasias

MusicWeb International
- A DELIGHT TO LISTEN TO

8.226066
GADE Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3

American Record Guide - WHAT A TREAT

See all Dacapo Recordings

Ondine

ODE1133-2
HALLGRIMSSON
Cello Concerto, Herma

MusicWeb International
- TRULS MØRK….IS SO IN TUNE
WITH THIS MUSIC

ODE1141-2
HINDEMITH Klaviermusik mit Orchester Op 29
DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9 ‘From the New World’

Audiophile Audition - 3 STARS

ODE1153-2
ELGAR Cello Concerto
(arr. for viola)
SCHNITTKE Viola Concerto

The Philadelphia Inquirer - 3 STARS

ODE1156-2Q
RAUTAVAARA Concertos

Audiophile Audition - 4 STARS

See all Ondine Recordings

Phoenix

Phoenix161
HAYDN Piano Trios

Fanfare
- ELEGANT, SUAVE PERFORMANCES

Phoenix154
Daniel Behle Vocal Recital
- SCHUBERT,BEETHOVEN,
GRIEG, BRITTEN, TROJAHN

MusicWeb International
- MELIFLUOUS, AGILE, BEAUTIFUL

Phoenix176
HAYDN Soprano Cantatas, Violin Concerto No 4, Symphony No 92

Fanfare - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Phoenix802
FRANCHETTI Germania

OperaNewsOnline - MANY CHARMS

See all Phoenix Edition Recordings

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