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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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