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Can't get enough Beauty and The Beast? Check out this amazing Beauty and The Beast Medley by BYU Vocal Point featuring Lexi Walker. You will feel like a kid again when you hear their beautiful renditions of Belle, Be Our Guest, and the classic Beauty and the Beast. Take a listen to the track here or check out the video below.
Naxos, by way of our representative in Montreal, lends it's support to the latest OSM radio advertisement - check the full spot out below - or the full track here. Next time a radio, internet, or TV advertisement calls for music - be sure to drop Naxos a line and see how we can help.
"...at this pivotal juncture I wanted something hauntingly beautiful and somewhat grandiose to represent the age old battle between good and evil. Dies Irae is about the day of judgment and the summoning of souls. Thematically it felt like the right fit." Naxos is excited to be a part of the film "The Devil's Candy" - something critics say "...playfully subverts horror tropes while serving up more than enough stylish thrills to satisfy genre enthusiasts." The folks over at Bloody Disgusting also had a nice interview about the Soundtrack that also features the Naxos music! You can read their review here. We won't ruin anything - but the review of the music theme points out something that the Classical genre has been doing for ages. Check out the snippet review below, grab the soundtrack on Amazon, download/stream the film - and when your next project calls for something so perfect as a Dies Irae, give us a call. Note: Trailer may contain sensitive images/scenes/topics
Naxos is proud to be a partner with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal on its latest advertisement! Take a listen to the ad below, the original recording here, find out how a little music makes everything better, then contact your local Naxos agent today for some great ideas about using music in your next radio ad campaign!
The Naxos licensing team is excited to be a part of Swiffer's new, adorable advertisement. Enjoy the commercial below. Track: Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), Act I: Cavatina: Largo al factotum della citta Label: BIS
The Naxos Licensing team is excited to be a part of the new Netlfix original movie The Discovery! Enjoy the trailer below and give us a shout if you want to have Naxos assist your next project with great music and creative help! Licensed music: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: Kyrie Eleison Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: Sequence No. 1: Dies Irae Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: Benedictus Courtesy of Naxos
The Naxos team is proud to be a part of The Royal Conservatory's new online Music History course. Featuring dozens of Naxos recordings - from Joseph Haydn's Emperor Quartet to John Adams' Short Ride in A Fast Machine - The Royal Conservatory's new course takes students on a musical journey through the styles, genres, composers and masterworks that helped shape the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras.
Naxos and Capriccio are proud to be a part of the Bank of Montreal's "Houston, We Have A Coffee" commercial. Featured is the "Einleitung" movement from Richard Strauss's epic Also sprach Zarathustra. Check it out below!
The Naxos Licensing team congratulates the artists, composers, friends, and family of all those involved in the 59th GRAMMY® Award winning Projects. Check out the amazing GRAMMY® winning classical recordings from the Nashville Symphony, Third Coast Percussion and the LA Opera below - all titles available for licensing anytime! Best Opera Recording: The Ghosts of Versailles John Corigliano's GRAMMY® award-winning Ghosts of Versailles is a delightful opera in two acts, set in the afterlife existence of the Versailles court of Louis XVI. The story centers around an opera staged by the ghost of the playwright Beaumarchais to cheer up the ghost of Marie Antoinette, who is upset about having been beheaded. Performed by the LA Opera, this recording was an instant hit featuring fantastic performances and extravagant scenery! Click here to listen! Composer: John Corigliano, Jr. Performed By: Victoria Livengood, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Scott Scully, Young Park So, Vanessa Becerra, Peabody Southwell, Summer Hassan, Lacey Jo Benter, Frederick Ballentine, Patrick Blackwell, Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, Patti LuPone, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette, Renne Rapier, Brenton Ryan, Lucy Schaufer, Scott Scully, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Young Park So, Joel Sorensen, Peabody Southwell, Stacey Tappan, Guanqun Yu Label: Pentatone Music Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance : Steve Reich Described as a "commandingly elegant" ensemble by the New York Time, the critically acclaimed ensemble Third Coast Percussion is a vibrant, creative force in the modern music scene. Their GRAMMY® winning album is an 80th birthday acknowledgement to American composer Steve Reich, the founding father of musical minimalism, featuring four of Reich's most notable percussion works. Click here to listen! Composer: Steve Reich Performed By: Third Coast Percussion Label: Cedille Records Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Tales Of Hemingway GRAMMY® Award- winning composer Michael Daugherty creates colorful musical portraits in this recordings, featuring larger-than-life personalities drawn from 20th-century American culture. Tales of Hemingway is a dramatic cello concerto, evoking the turbulent life, adventures and literature of author Ernest Hemingway. American Gothic is a dynamic concerto for orchestra, reflecting on the creative world of Iowa artist Grant Wood. Oce Upon a Castle is a virtuosic sinfonia concertante for organ and orchestra, inspired by the rich history of the Hearst Castle, built high upon the California Pacific coast by the billionaire Randolph Hearst, the subject of Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane. Under the baton of Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Nashville Symphony is joined by Zuill Bailey, one of the leading cellists of his generation, and GRAMMY® Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs. Click here to listen! Composer: Michael Daugherty Performed By: Zuill Bailey, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero Label: Naxos Best Classical Compendium: Tales Of Hemingway GRAMMY® Award- winning composer Michael Daugherty creates colorful musical portraits in this recordings, featuring larger-than-life personalities drawn from 20th-century American culture. Tales of Hemingway is a dramatic cello concerto, evoking the turbulent life, adventures and literature of author Ernest Hemingway. American Gothic is a dynamic concerto for orchestra, reflecting on the creative world of Iowa artist Grant Wood. Oce Upon a Castle is a virtuosic sinfonia concertante for organ and orchestra, inspired by the rich history of the Hearst Castle, built high upon the California Pacific coast by the billionaire Randolph Hearst, the subject of Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane. Under the baton of Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Nashville Symphony is joined by Zuill Bailey, one of the leading cellists of his generation, and GRAMMY® Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs. Click here to listen! Composer: Michael Daugherty Performed By: Zuill Bailey, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero Label: Naxos Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Tales of Hemingway GRAMMY® Award- winning composer Michael Daugherty creates colorful musical portraits in this recordings, featuring larger-than-life personalities drawn from 20th-century American culture. Tales of Hemingway is a dramatic cello concerto, evoking the turbulent life, adventures and literature of author Ernest Hemingway. American Gothic is a dynamic concerto for orchestra, reflecting on the creative world of Iowa artist Grant Wood. Oce Upon a Castle is a virtuosic sinfonia concertante for organ and orchestra, inspired by the rich history of the Hearst Castle, built high upon the California Pacific coast by the billionaire Randolph Hearst, the subject of Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane. Under the baton of Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Nashville Symphony is joined by Zuill Bailey, one of the leading cellists of his generation, and GRAMMY® Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs. Click here to listen! Composer: Michael Daugherty Performed By: Zuill Bailey, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero Label: Naxos Best Engineered Album, Classical: The Ghosts of Versailles John Corigliano's GRAMMY® award-winning Ghosts of Versailles is a delightful opera in two acts, set in the afterlife existence of the Versailles court of Louis XVI. The story centers around an opera staged by the ghost of the playwright Beaumarchais to cheer up the ghost of Marie Antoinette, who is upset about having been beheaded. Performed by the LA Opera, this recording was an instant hit featuring fantastic performances and extravagant scenery! Click here to listen! Composer: John Corigliano, Jr. Performed By: Victoria Livengood, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Scott Scully, Young Park So, Vanessa Becerra, Peabody Southwell, Summer Hassan, Lacey Jo Benter, Frederick Ballentine, Patrick Blackwell, Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, Patti LuPone, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette, Renne Rapier, Brenton Ryan, Lucy Schaufer, Scott Scully, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Young Park So, Joel Sorensen, Peabody Southwell, Stacey Tappan, Guanqun Yu Engineers: Mark Donahue, Fred Vogler Label: Pentatone Music
Naxos is pleased to be a part of the hot new Marvel show on FX titled "Legion". Be sure to listen for some Faure throughout the season, and see why trusted Music Supervisors choose the Naxos Licensing team to help elevate their projects. The folks at Vox did a great review of the series which you can read here, anytime. Like what you hear during the show? Be sure to drop our agents a line anywhere in the world - to get help on exciting new projects today! Legion debuts tonight, Wednesday - February 8 on FX!
Naxos and Brilliant Classics are excited to be a part of the Turkish Airlines 2017 Super Bowl Commercial. Arash Safaian composed the beautiful music that plays behind the voice of Morgan Freeman. Check out this amazing commercial!
The Naxos Licensing team is proud to be a part of the new release - Hidden Figures. The track used is You're A Grand Old Flag from Altissimo!. Music was licensed through our friend Marty at Source/Q!
Naxos is again proud to be a part of the latest Minecraft trailer - this time for the Festive Mash-Up Pack 2016! Check it out below, and if the music strikes your fancy (or you want to add a little extra Holiday spirit to your next project this time of year) - feel free to give our agents a call or email anytime. We're here to help, even while everyone else might be off! Enjoy the Novas Brass' recording of the "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" here, and enjoy the trailer below!
The Naxos Licensing team is pleased to be a part of the latest Hollywood blockbuster - La La Land. Be sure to listen for the infamous 1812 Overture from Hungaroton Records - and some selections from Verdi's La Traviata! Music was licensed through our friend Marty at Source/Q!
The Naxos Licensing team is excited to announce the release of some time-lost releases from the British Military Music Archive! Licensing is a snap, as the Naxos Licensing team controls the rights worldwide for synch. on these awesome restorations! heck out some of their new releases below or explore all that the BMMA has to offer anytime here. Classical Favourites Opera Highlights - Vol. 1 Musicals Marches - Vol. 1
The Naxos Licensing, and Source/Q, teams are honored to be involved in so many projects that we sometimes have trouble keeping up with what we've been working on here on the Naxos Licensing site. In addition to the dozens of projects we display below and on the homepage, our teams around the world continue to bring the best in classical music to all different sorts of projects - be they films, television episodes, advertisements, textbooks, sample licenses, custom compilations, and even the performance of Naxos Licensing music in conjunction with new ballet company productions! Some of our latest placements include the shows/films below. Be on the lookout for even more placements from the global licensing team every day! Cello Concerto - Naxos Das Rheingold - Naxos Gnossienne No. 1 - Swedish Socity Music Featured in Ep# 101, #104, #106 Barcarolle - Naxos Fratres For Strings - Naxos
Working on a last minute "get out the vote" ad? Nothing says "Get out and vote today" like Aaron Copland! Check out our short featured list of some American favorites, and uplifting melodies perfect to complete that project, or just to enjoy while in line to vote. Check out the featured playlists here - and here!
Naxos is pleased to be a part of the newest Netflix Original series "The Crown" - with the inclusion of the Prelude to Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde". Be sure to take a listen during episode 3 (during your binge session) - and should your project call for the power of Classical music, reach out to any number of our Naxos agents around the world for help! Check out the trailer for the series below!
Naxos & Source/Q are excited to provide the music for the latest trailer for the M. Night Shyamalan film "Split". Check it out below - and when the project calls for some Penderecki to lend that otherworldly, creepy, scary, or suspenseful sound - be sure to drop your Naxos representative a line. We know the catalog inside and out, and are always ready to help make your next project the best it can be! Trailer music c/o the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Antoni Wit!Bonus points if you can recognize the musical work!
The Naxos Licensing team celebrates the birthday of our founder, chairman, mentor, and friend - Klaus Heymann this week. Klaus Heymann, our German-born founder, entrepreneur, and visionary force in the classical music recording industry, celebrates his 80th birthday on October 22, 2016. His name needs no introduction to people familiar with our label, a name synonymous with making classical music available to a much wider audience than was the case prior to his founding in 1987 of Naxos, the CD label that famously undercut the major labels in terms of price, without compromising on quality. Naxos now boasts a catalogue of such impressive depth and breadth that it attracts global admiration. The label itself celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2017. The Naxos story began in Hong Kong, the founding chairman’s home since 1967, but the label is now complemented by numerous business extensions it has since generated worldwide… truly, the house that Klaus built. Klaus Heymann led the field in foreseeing the inevitable synthesis of recorded classical music with the internet as its vehicle for distribution. In 2002, Mr Heymann pioneered the concept of subscription streaming services four years before the arrival of Spotify, having launched the industry’s first streaming platform in 1996. Naxos Music Library now offers access to more than 120,000 CD-length recordings from 800 labels and similar libraries now exist for jazz recordings, spoken word and videos, as well as the Naxos Radio site. Klaus Heymann’s contribution to the classical music recording industry is unparalleled. Naxos Artist Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, who became the first woman to conduct the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms in 2013, made this comment on the occasion of Naxos’ 25th anniversary: “I think speaking of Klaus’ influence on classical music is too narrow. His vision as an innovative entrepreneur has resulted in the rebirth of a struggling industry. That is not only good for classical music, but for society at large." -Marin Alsop We send our warmest greetings to Klaus Heymann on the occasion of his 80th birthday, together with best wishes for continued prosperity to both himself, his wife, the distinguished violinist Takako Nishizaki (centre), his son Rick (right) and their extended family (front).
Naxos is proud to be a part of the upcoming German film Lieblingsmenschen. Check out the trailer here or below and learn more about the project on their campaign site. See how the power of Classical Music transforms this silly story! Music licensed c/o Naxos Germany. LIEBLINGSMENSCHEN Teaser I (English subtitles) from Vlady Valentin Oszkiel on Vimeo.
Naxos Far East celebrates the release of the upcoming film - I Am Not Madame Bovary - and the release of the new trailer (seen below), featuring music from Hok-man Yim, licensed from Naxos and Marco Polo! The film has done very well in the festival circuit, including nominations for Best Director and Best Leading Actress at the Golden Horse Awards, and honored by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) - Xiaogang Feng! Enjoy some of the music licensed here!
We're always thrilled when brands come to Naxos, and the Naxos Licensing team, for classical direction & inspiration. Working in collaboration with mcgarrybowen, Naxos and the creative teams harnessed the power of a familiar melody - in Dvorak's "New World Symphony" to tell the story of Crayola Color Wonder sets! Check out the spot below - and next time you're in need of music with history and power, be sure to give Naxos a call.
The Naxos licensing team is proud to be a part of the upcoming film Promise Without Words. This film is helping raise awareness about sexual child abuse in the family. To learn more about Promise Without Words and help raise awareness please visit Promise Without Words Indiegogo page. Listen to the full Naxos track here - available for license anytime.