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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!
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Naxos CDs
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BRITTEN, B.: Reflections - Violin and Viola Works
M. Jones, Thwaite
Naxos 8.573136

Jones’s playing of both instruments enthrals. Annabel Thwaite’s accompaniments, beautifully shaded and weighted, are on the same superb level. - BBC Music Magazine
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CAGE, J.: Works for 2 Keyboards, Vol. 1
Pestova, Meyer
Naxos 8.559726
lively, alert, and even virtuosic readings - Fanfare

beyond fabulous rhythmics, both of the pianists achieve in giving a soul to this very special music - Pizzicato
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MOERAN, E.J.: In the Mountain Country / Rhapsodies / Overture for a Masque
Frith, Ulster Orchestra, Falletta
Naxos 8.573106


The orchestration is creative and the piano interacts beguilingly with all the instruments and has some very lovely lines on its own, lines that Frith delineates with delicacy. - The Buffalo News
extremely enjoyable release that deserves wide circulation - ClassicsToday.com
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See Naxos catalogue
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Accentus Music
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MOZART, W.A.: Requiem
Abbado
Accentus Music ACC-20258 [DVD], ACC-10258 [Blu-ray]
The undisputed focal point here is the conductor himself, whose soulful intensity, both heard and seen, makes this video an important complement to any of the fine recordings in the catalogue. - Opera News
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See Accentus Music catalogue
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