CONTENTS Foreword by Klaus Heymann . 3 Alphabetical List of Works by Composer . 5 Collections . 95 Alphorn 96 Easy Listening 113 Operetta 125 American Classics 96 Flute 116 Orchestral 125 American Jewish Music 96 Funeral Music 117 Organ 128 Ballet 96 Glass Harmonica 117 Piano 129 Baroque 97 Guitar 117 Russian 131 Bassoon 98 Gypsy 119 Samplers 131 Best Of series 98 Harp 119 Saxophone 132 British Music 101 Harpsichord 120 Timpani 132 Cello 101 Horn 120 Trombone 132 Chamber Music 102 Light Classics 120 Tuba 133 Chill With 102 Lute 121 Trumpet 133 Christmas 103 Music for Meditation 121 Viennese 133 Cinema Classics 105 Oboe 121 Violin 133 Clarinet 109 Ondes Martenot 122 Vocal and Choral 134 Early Music 109 Operatic 122 Wedding Music 137 Wind 137 Naxos Historical . 138 Naxos Nostalgia . 152 Naxos Jazz Legends . 154 Naxos Musicals . 156 Naxos Blues Legends . 156 Naxos Folk Legends . 156 Naxos Gospel Legends . 156 Naxos Jazz . 157 Naxos World . 158 Naxos Educational . 158 Naxos Super Audio CD . 159 Naxos DVD Audio . 160 Naxos DVD . 160 List of Naxos Distributors . 161 Naxos Website: www.naxos.com Symbols used in this catalogue # New release not listed in 2005 Catalogue $ Recording scheduled to be released before 31 March, 2006 † Please note that not all titles are available in all territories. Check with your local distributor for availability. 2 Also available on Mini-Disc (MD)(7.XXXXXX) Reviews and Ratings Over the years, Naxos recordings have received outstanding critical acclaim in virtually every specialized and general-interest publication around the world. In this catalogue we are only listing ratings which summarize a more detailed review in a single number or a single rating. Our recordings receive favourable reviews in many other publications which, however, do not use a simple, easy to understand rating system. Penguin Guide: More than half of all current Naxos L Klassik heute: Performance 10 recordings are included in various editions of the authoritative Penguin Guide. The very highest Diapason: This is the French equivalent of rating is with a awarded only to Gramophone but extensively covers live in recordings*** of exceptional quality. Otherwise, the addition to recorded music. It accords recordings rating is the highest awarded to other ratings from one to five tuning forks (diapasons). recordings*** … it means that a recording features A select few recordings are awarded a Diapason an outstanding performance and has equally d’Or. outstanding sound. Brackets around one star signify a slight reservation regarding either sound 6 Diapason d’Or or performance. In this catalogue we only list the 9 and recordings although many Five-Diapason Rating more*** of our recordings*** also received ratings, indicating a good performance and recording** of Répertoire: This is a record collectors’ publication today’s normal high standard. rating recordings on a scale of 1 to 10. 2 A recording in a very special class 8 Répertoire 10 Rating 3 An outstanding performance and 7 Répertoire 9 Rating recording in every way g Répertoire Recommended A Gramophone: This is the oldest monthly British Répertoire Historical magazine devoted to recorded music. It does not CD of the Month have a rating system and we can therefore only B Répertoire CD of the Month indicate which of our Naxos recordings were included in the monthly Editor’s Choice category and which were pronounced Disc of the Month. Le Monde de la Musique: This is the third of the French magazines. It rates recordings 4 Gramophone Editor’s Choice according to a star system, four stars being the 5 highest rating. A few select recordings are Gramophone Record of the Month awarded the CHOC symbol. C Gramophone Award Nomination ^ Special Award of D Gramophone Award Winner Le Monde de la Musique % Highest 4–Star Rating of BBC Music Magazine: Unlike Gramophone, the BBC Music Magazine is not primarily a Le Monde de la Musique publication devoted to recorded music but to music in general (as its title indicates). K Classica: Recommended by Classica Nevertheless, the publication has been increasing its coverage of classical and other recordings and ( Stereoplay: 9 Rating must now be considered a serious rival to Gramophone. The highest rating given to a ) Stereoplay: 9.5 Rating recording is ✩ outstanding. * Stereoplay: Disc of the Month 0 BBC 5–Star rating ClassicsToday: h This is the only website reviewing BBC editor’s choice all new classical releases on a daily basis. i BBC outstanding quality E Its highest rating is 10/10, the first 10 referring to the performance and a Cannes Classical Award the second 10 to the sound quality. F The Absolute Sound: Super CD l n Best Classical Album of 2003, New Zealand Music Awards f Pizzicato: Supersonic Rating m n Pizzicato: Excellentia 3 FOREWORD BY KLAUS HEYMANN When I started the Naxos label nineteen years ago I had no our prestigious 4-CD sets, each devoted to the “Life and great ambitions other than making classical recordings Works” of a great composer; and our range entitled “Opera available on CD at a price comparable to that of LPs. Not Explained” which combines music and commentary to in my wildest dreams did I expect Naxos to become the such intelligent effect. And there is a 7-CD set devoted to world’s leading label for classical repertoire. In many The Instruments of the Orchestra. countries, including the UK, it is also now the best-selling classical label. Another telling example of our intent to broaden and develop our remit is the commissioning of Sir Peter And Naxos is no longer just a ‘budget’ label - it was named Maxwell Davies to write 10 “Naxos Quartets”, the first of The 2005 Label of the Year at the 2005 Gramophone/ which appeared in late 2004, in a ground-breaking venture Classic FM Awards. which sees a composer writing and naming a series of works after a label. As of January 2006, our catalogue comprises over 3,000 releases and we add about fifteen new releases every month. That passion to develop the market extends to technology By the end of the year 2006, our catalogue will be close to too, and here we have a significant lead over others. Naxos 3,200 recordings, offering music lovers a veritable is the only label, major or independent, to have released encyclopedia of classical music. important titles in three different formats, CD, DVD-A and hybrid SACD. As important as sheer breadth of choice is the quality of the offering. After all, one’s natural love of a bargain is always We are likewise investing in exciting new digital delivery tempered by the suspicion of possible corner cutting. With formats with our Naxos Music Library which enables a us you can purchase with utter confidence. Look at the university library or music faculty to offer students reviews and you’ll see that Naxos enjoys immense critical complete unlimited access to all 90,000 Naxos and Marco respect. More than 500 Penguin Guide 3-star Polo tracks [and the tracks of many independent labels, as recommendations and over 100 “Editor’s Choices” in The well] at the click of a mouse. Naxos Radio (available from Gramophone magazine attest to that as do the thousands of the website, www.naxos.com) enables a subscriber to enjoy enthusiastic letters and emails we receive every year. 60 channels of streamed classical music through a computer for 24 hours a day at a very modest cost. In fact, So, how do we manage to issue brand new recordings at less the way we are able to distribute music is undergoing than half the price of full-price recordings? Particularly, one exciting changes: for instance, the time is not far off where wonders, since we work with many of the same orchestras as you could be filling up your MP3 player at a kind of other independent record companies, employ some of the musical gas station, most likely your favourite retailer. same producers and engineers and thus have costs similar to most other record companies. The answer is simple: our We continue to invest a great deal of effort and money into consumer-friendly price and wide distribution allow us to www.naxos.com with a highly sophisticated database that spread that recording cost across 20,000 to 30,000 copies. allows unprecedented access to information about musical works and enables the visitor to the site to find all 90,000 A sense of adventure keeps us all fresh and innovative too. tracks in our catalogues. Those who subscribe to the site In addition to superb new versions of the established core can also listen to every single track. Our website also offers classics, we have made remarkable treasures accessible to information about other independent CD and DVD labels, adventurous music lovers - from British String Quartets to making it a veritable portal for the world of recorded Japanese Classical Favourites, from 20th Century American classical music. Music to symphonies of the 18th Century that had never been recorded before. I hope we never lose the joy of Our dedication to classical music has been rewarded with discovering something new and remarkable. unprecedented acclaim from the media but also, and more importantly, from our customers. In fact, a key benefit to music of the Naxos approach is that works once considered unusual, such as a Glass Violin Given the quality and breadth of Naxos releases, there’s Concerto or the Hummel Masses [which our affiliated always a reason to go back to Naxos every month. Where publishing company, Artaria Editions, also published], can else today can one enjoy such an extraordinary musical actually become popular enough to enter the mainstream adventure for such a modest outlay? repertoire, and of that I confess to being very proud.