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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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TYBERG, M.: Symphony No. 2 / Piano Sonata No. 2
Bidini, Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta
Naxos 8.572822

JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic take charge of the orchestral component, offering a performance of the symphony full of character and conviction - ClassicsToday.com
The performance could hardly be bettered - Gramophone
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Choral Music - The Lost City: Lamentations Through the Ages
Sospiri, C. Watson
Naxos 8.573078
The perfect, ringing intonation and velvety vocal timbres of Sospiri under Christopher Watson’s assured, versatile leadership go a long way toward making this a very gratifying listening experience. - Opera News
this present release advertises the credentials of Sospiri most impressively - MusicWeb International
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BLOCH, E.: Symphony in C-Sharp Minor / Poems of the Sea
London Symphony, Atlas
Naxos 8.573241

Dalia Atlas’ inspired, sensitive and colorful Bloch recordings should find a large audience, so that both works would at the end be better known. They definitely deserve it! - Pizzicato
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ROSSINI, G.: Semiramide [Opera]
Penda, Pizzolato, Regazzo, Osborn, Mastroni, Fogliani
Naxos 8.660340-42

high ranking live production from Wildbad Festival - Pizzicato
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See Naxos catalogue
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C Major
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BEETHOVEN, L. van: Missa Solemnis
Petersen, Kulman, Gura, Finley, Netherlands Radio Choir, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Harnoncourt
C Major 712704 [Blu-ray], 712608 [DVD]

There are certainly many different valid ways to perform the Missa solemnis, but it’s hard to imagine they will surpass this outstanding version - BBC Music Magazine
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See C Major catalogue
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EuroArts
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SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2012 OPENING CONCERT - STRAVINSKY, I. / MUSSORGSKY, M. / PROKOFIEV, S.
Semishkur, Gergiev
EuroArts 2072614 [Blu-ray], 2072618 [DVD]

the Philharmonic—and particularly the Vienna State Opera Chorus—render Stravinsky’s Psalms with biting urgency - Gramophone
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See EuroArts catalogue
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