Naxos is the brainchild of Klaus Heymann, a German-born
   entrepreneur and music lover based in Hong Kong.  To boost
   the sales for his electronics equipment company, Heymann began
   organising concerts of classical music in Hong Kong sponsored
   by Bose and Revox.  When visiting artists involved in the
   concerts discovered that their records could not be found in
   Hong Kong shops, record distribution became an additional
   enterprise of Heymann's company.

   Another result of the classical concerts was Heymann's marriage
   to Takako Nishizaki, a world-class Japanese violinist.  Heymann
   decided to make recordings with Nishizaki, one of the first
   recordings being The Butterfly Lovers Concerto.  The recording
   met with immediate success and sold hundreds of thousands of
   copies across Asia, compelling Heymann to start HK, a record
   label devoted to Chinese symphonic music.  Success continued,
   and the desire to record Western repertoire blossomed into
   Marco Polo, a label offering primarily rare symphonic repertoire
   composed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

from Naxos' webpg.

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