Naxos American Classics 2025

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The highly-acclaimed Naxos American Classics series boasts a unique catalogue of both well-known and rarely recorded masterpieces. This landmark series features the greatest American composers both familiar and unfamiliar: visionary modernists such as Ives and Cage, buoyant spirits like Sousa and Joplin, today's cutting edge figures such as Adams and Glass, and more.

Shop the Naxos American Classics collection now — sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, July 22, 2025.

  • Broughton: And on the Sixth Day & String Theory
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    Broughton: And on the Sixth Day & String Theory

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    Although Bruce Broughton is best known for his many film and television scores, over the past five decades he has composed scores for a diverse array of projects from film and TV to concert music...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 26, 2024

  • Persichetti: Organ Works / Quinn
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    Persichetti: Organ Works / Quinn

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    Vincent Persichetti's organ music holds an important place in 20th-century repertoire. Steeped in tradition and yet open to the currents of modernity, he developed a thoroughly distinctive musical language. The selections from his Hymns and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 03, 2021

  • Krouse: Symphony No. 5 - Fanfare for the Heroes of the Korean War - Symphonies of Strings Nos. 1 & 2
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    Krouse: Symphony No. 5 - Fanfare for the Heroes of the Korean War - Symphonies of Strings Nos. 1 & 2

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    Underscoring the very special relationship between the United States and the Republic of Korea, the 2017 version of Ian Krouse'sSymphonyNo.5performed on this recording with a South Korean orchestra commemorates the 70thanniversary of the Korean War....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 12, 2021

  • Farwell: Songs, Choral, and Piano Works; String Quartet
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    Farwell: Songs, Choral, and Piano Works; String Quartet

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    Arthur Farwell has been called 'the most neglected composer in [American musical] history.' Hounded by accusations of 'cultural appropriation,' he has posthumously fallen prey to changing notions of cultural authenticity. As the leader of the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 22, 2021

  • Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 21 / Brion, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Orchestra
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    Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 21 / Brion, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Orchestra

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    This current volume of Sousa’s music for wind band presents three exceptional examples of Sousa’s musical creativity. Chris and the Wonderful Lamp is an enchanting retelling of the Aladdin legend, while Showing Off Before Company...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 23, 2021

  • Tower: Strike Zones / Glennie, McMillen, Miller, Albany Symphony
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    Tower: Strike Zones / Glennie, McMillen, Miller, Albany Symphony

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    Joan Tower is widely regarded as one of today’s most important American composers. The works heard here in their world premiere recordings are part of a growing legacy that one pundit has described as “The...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 23, 2021

  • Gottsch: Princess Yurievskaya & Sunset / Alfonso, South Florida Symphony Orchestra
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    Gottsch: Princess Yurievskaya & Sunset / Alfonso, South Florida Symphony Orchestra

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    John D. Gottsch spent his youth in the lake country of Florida, which instilled in him a love of nature that has informed his music ever since. His symphonic poem Sunset is almost cinematic in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 25, 2021

  • Sousa: Music For Wind Band, Vol. 20 / Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama Wind Orch
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    Sousa: Music For Wind Band, Vol. 20 / Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama Wind Orch

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    John Philip Sousa personified turn-of-the-century America –the comparative innocence and brash energy of an advancing nation. His ever-touring band represented America across the globe and brought lively and entertaining music to hundreds of American towns....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 29, 2021

  • Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives; Harmonielehre / Guerrero, Nashville Symphony
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    Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives; Harmonielehre / Guerrero, Nashville Symphony

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    A 2021 GRAMMY Nominee for Best Orchestral Performance! Pulitzer and Erasmus Prize-winning composer John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 15, 2021

  • Cello Concerto / Double Bass Concerto / Moonburst
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    Cello Concerto / Double Bass Concerto / Moonburst

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    David Gompper is an award-winning composer and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. His luminously orchestrated and expressive works have attracted admiration throughout the US, Europe and beyond. Opening with relentless energy, the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 27, 2020

  • Gershwin, Tower, Piston & Harbison / Cole, Miller, NOIP
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    Gershwin, Tower, Piston & Harbison / Cole, Miller, NOIP

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    This program represents American orchestral music in all of it's verve and expressive variety. Following the sensational success of Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin's Concerto in F was his first foray away from jazz bands into...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 13, 2020

  • Herrmann: Whitman (Radio Drama by Norman Corwin)
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    Herrmann: Whitman (Radio Drama by Norman Corwin)

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    Bernard Herrmann was famous for his film scores, but he was also a leading figure in music for radio, to which he brought his inimitable palette of mood and sonority. Whitman, whose subject is Walt...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 09, 2020

  • Picker: Opera Without Words; The Encantadas / Guerrero, Nashville Symphony
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    Picker: Opera Without Words; The Encantadas / Guerrero, Nashville Symphony

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    Tobias Picker, hailed as “a genuine creator” by The New Yorker, has written extensively for the stage and for symphonic forces, and these two approaches are represented in this album. The Encantadas (an older name...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 28, 2020

  • Sing Wearing the Sky / Rinsema, Kantorei
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    Sing Wearing the Sky / Rinsema, Kantorei

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    The prolific young composer Jake Runestad has won numerous awards for his music, which ranges from opera to works for chamber ensemble. He is particularly valued for his choral compositions which exemplify a desire to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 14, 2020

  • Krouse: Nocturnes & Invocation / Various
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    Krouse: Nocturnes & Invocation / Various

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    Ian Krouse has been acclaimed by Gramophone as “one of the most communicative and intriguing” of today’s composers, his style drawing on historical and traditional influences as well as being innovative and modern. With references...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 24, 2020