Few record companies have redefined the experience of buying CDs as dramatically as Naxos. In the company's 18-year history, it has united countless people with a quite staggering breadth of music. This year was a particularly rich one for Naxos garnering more Editor's Choices than ever before and filling in corners of the repertoire that other companies leave untouched. Its electronic and online presence with Naxos Web Radio and the Naxos Music Library show that the label's visionary zeal remains as acute as ever. Naxos has won many friends among music lovers down the years and The Gramophone is delighted to add itself to list of the company's many admirers.