Marco Polo

Marco Polo was set up by Klaus Heymann (who would later found the immensely successful Naxos budget label) in the 1980s. It's brief was to record rarities and previously unrecorded works from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The concept came at the right time as the core repertoire was becoming stale through multiple recordings of the same works. Marco Polo gave adventurous listeners the change to explore previously uncharted territories as well as work of famous composers which had long faded into obscurity.

Apart from featuring music by Anton Rubinstein, Respighi, Enescu and other, lesser, known composers Marco Polo has embarked on cycles of dance music of the Strauss family and Hans Lumbye as well as the British Light Music series. Marco Polo also has an invaluable subsidiary label, Yellow River Chinese, which features recordings of traditional Chinese music and work by Chinese composers.