Naxos
 

More praise for this label. Cheap as chips recordings from former Easter-bloc countries at low low rates? Yes please!

Their release of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony is amazing!

No.

That is to say, no.

Gorecki is turd, absolute turd. Is that the Miserere? Turd.

Ner ner ner I like Gorecki ner ner ner :p


Major Melly deficit -I like to be bummed to the sounds of Whitehouse :o

I'll get me coat then ,eh?

Bumming to Whitehouse is fine - we've all been there. But Gorecki is just some faux-early, pseudo-ecclesiastical nonsense. Utter piffle, if you ask me. Which, obviously, you didn't, which is why I'm telling you.

Which you are. You'll have to remind me though - I forget these things too easily. Dur....

I haven't.:o

Perv!!!

I thought this thread said Nachos, and I'm kind of disappointed.

"Nacho Nacho Man! I wanna be a Nacho Man!" (copyright of H J Simpson)

I actually got really annoyed when the Naxos stuff went from being £4.99 to £5.99. That extra pound fucks with my maths. The old two Satie CDs for a tenner was a nobrainer, but once you're talking about £12 then you start making decisions like, do I really want to break into a twenty for two CDs I'll nodoubt only ever listen to half of, once.

The stuff is generally really good though. the only substandard Naxos CD I've ever had was a Gershwin one. That was bloody awful.

Used Naxosesesses are the way to go. Them things cost about 1/10th of a half of a half of a 10th of a moldy aids infested yen.

since i study music, we have acsees to their onlince data base-ie i can listen to all of their catologue for free...
love naxos

Great label. So many people I had never heard of I've disocvered through their output, samplers etc.

A lot of people poo-poo Naxos. That annoys me a lot. Because classical music is intimidating enough without suggesting that 'quality' means paying £20+ for a CD that you'll only listen to once. Admittedly, there are some ropey-ish recordings (this is a relative thing, obviously) but their Eastern-European orchestras are pretty consistently cock-on for anything east of Germany.

naxos fucking rules. i owe them my first encounter w/ janacek, among other things.

but ripping their cds from someone who owns an extensive library is even cheaper.

who needs dictionaries, when we've got glice.

Further to my earlier answer, I now realise I have at least five Naxos CDs (including Janacek, Ligeti and Charles Ives).

I never really acknowledged that I was buying a particular label, I just wanted a particular piece of music at a good price.