Labels
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Accent
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Accent is a Belgian record label presenting classical music from the late Middle Ages to the 20th Century, with a principal focus on 17th- and 18th-century works. The Accent catalogue includes many highly-prized recordings and boasts an impressive roster of outstanding performers, including Luc Devos (fortepiano), Paul Dombrecht (oboe), Roel Dieltiens (violoncello), Rene Jacobs (countertenor), Konrad Junghanel (lute), Robert Kohnen (harpsichord), Sigiswald Kuijken (violin, viola da gamba), Barthold Kuijken (flute), Wieland Kuijken (violoncello, viola da gamba), Marcel Ponseele (oboe), Raphaella Smits (guitar), Liuwe Tamminga (organ), Jos Van Immerseel (fortepiano), Erik Van Nevel with Currende, La Petite Bande, La Colombina, Concerto Palatino. |
Accentus Music
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Accentus Music produces high profile concert and opera recordings, feature-length documentaries and portraits. DVD releases include productions featuring Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Evgeny Kissin, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra and other leading artists. Both artistically and technically, Accentus Music meets the highest expectations of music lovers around the world. |
Aeolus
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Aeolus is a German record label specialising in Baroque music and music for organ. Its goal, and that of its artists, is to present superb interpretations performed on the most appropriate instruments. In order to achieve this, they often travel throughout Europe to record rare historical instruments in well-chosen venues with the best possible recording equipment. Aeolus SACDs are full compatibility with standard CD players and provide high-end stereo as well as surround sound. |
Agogique
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Principally devoted to early music performed on period instruments, Agogique unites in its catalogue great musicians with established recording careers and talented emerging artists. Original programs and high quality production are the priority for this boutique label. |
AGPL Records
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The Munich-based AGPL label features a number of outstanding recordings, including those by pianist Nikolai Demidenko of works by Beethoven, Chopin, Scarlatti, Schubert, as well as an acclaimed Wigmore Hall Recital. |
Albion Records
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Albion Records is dedicated to recordings of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s music. Its vision is that each Albion CD will contain at least one world premiere recording. Albion releases attract excellent reviews from Gramophone and other leading music media. |
Altissimo Recordings
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Altissimo Recordings present a vast array of music from the USA’s military bands, orchestras, ensembles and choruses. It is to these creative artists that Altissimo Recordings’ exceptional catalogue is dedicated. Prior to the founding of Altissimo these phenomenal recordings were not available to the general public. |
Ambronay
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For a quarter of a century, Ambronay’s Cultural Encounter Centre has been home to great musicians passionate about their art and in love with the special acoustic of its thousand year-old stone Abbey. Its CDs document outstanding performances from the annual Ambronay Festival. |
Aparte
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The French label Aparte has an enviable roster of leading musicians, including Christophe Rousset and his renowned ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, Blandine Verlet, Ophelie Gaillard, David Grimal’s Les Dissonances, among many others. Highly praised and sought-after by classical music lovers Aparte CDs are regularly chosen as CD of the Week and gain top marks from leading music magazines and websites. |
APR
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Appian Publications and Recordings is a quality label devoted predominantly, though not exclusively, to piano recordings, both new and historic. In particular, APR has won countless laurels for the high standard of its 78rpm restoration work and for its trilingual booklets. The label has received numerous international honours, including an unprecedented 9 Grand Prix by the Liszt Society of Budapest in recent years. |
ARC Music
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ARC Music offers the largest and finest selection of traditional and contemporary ethnic music from all corners of the globe. Established in 1976, the repertoire contains over 700 recordings of ethnic music from over 100 countries and cultures. From African gospel, music of the North American Indians, Didgeridoo music from Australia, Punjabi Pop or Bhangra from India, Chinese Silk & Bamboo music, Middle Eastern percussion, music from Tahiti and much more; titles are available to suit every budget, from the high quality low price series, to the popular mid price range and deluxe collector’s items. |
Archieball
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The independent jazz label Archieball was founded by Monette Berthomier and Archie Shepp, master of the tenor sax and a profoundly respected bluesman. Archieball releases have gained top recognition, including being named Album of the Year by The New York City Jazz Record. |
Armide/Vox Lucida DVD
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Armide is a label created by Vox Lucida. In association with Camera Lucida Productions, Vox Lucida produces high-quality audiovisual programs and recordings intended for both television broadcast and release on DVD. Releases include a French Baroque music series and a live concert of Mozart sacred arias performed by Sandrine Piau, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques. |
Ars Produktion
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Ars Produktion was founded in 1987 with the aim of giving young up-and-coming artists and interesting performance programmes a musical home of their own. With this project the label founder, concert flautist Annette Schumacher, has fulfilled a long-standing dream after an active career in demand as a musician. Many Ars Produktion titles are released as Hybrid SACDs. |
Arthaus DVD
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Arthaus Musik, a leading label for classical music, offers more than 200 DVD titles, including highly acclaimed opera and concert performances, top ballet productions and prize-winning music documentaries - from major works in benchmark productions by the world’s leading operatic companies to rarities in the repertoire. |
ASV
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ASV showcases recordings by some of the world’s finest artists, including the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, The Lindsays, clarinettist Emma Johnson, cellist Rafael Wallfisch, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra. |
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
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The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s own label presents recordings of classical masterworks and uniquely inspired collaborations with of some of today’s most renowned soloists, celebrating innovation and artistry with the highest standards of audio recording. |
Atomhenge
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Atomhenge is the home of pioneering Psychedlic & Classic Rock, primarily Hawkwind and their offshoot projects. The label is managed by Progressive Rock authority Mark Powell and his wife Vicky, who also curate Esoteric Recordings. |
Avanti Classic
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The choice of music and the special relationship between music and the artists are what differentiate Avanti Classic. Its quality recordings feature promising new musicians and established artists, including Martha Argerich, Polina Leschenko, Philippe Quint and Sergio Tiempo. |
Avie
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Avie has been founded on an entirely new business model, turning the traditional musician/record company relationship on its head. Avie operates the label for and on behalf of the musicians who retain ownership of their recordings, acting as an umbrella for a number of musical organisations and individual artists. By so doing Avie creates a considerable scale of operation which ensures strong marketing, significant media interest and worldwide distribution. |
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The Beat Goes On
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BGO Records is an independent reissue label specialising in classic highly collectable recordings of groups, singers and instrumentalists from the fifties through to the eighties previously only available on vinyl and digitally, remastered for CD and re-released on the Batsville, Dusk Fire, Mandalic, Market Square Records, Mosco, Talking Elephant and The Beat Goes On labels. |
BBC Legends
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From the popular BBC Radio program, ‘BBC Legends’, comes a superb series of CDs featuring great artists in historic broadcast performances drawn from the BBC archives. The original analogue recordings, digitised and tonally refurbished to conform to contemporary audio standards, have garnered the highest praise and won numerous awards. Artists include Jacqueline du Pré, Artur Rubenstein, Yehudi Menuhin, David Oistrakh and more. |
Bel Air DVD
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Outstanding classic and contemporary ballets and operas performed by some of Europe’s leading companies, such as the National Paris Opera, Bolshoi and Zurich Ballets, and featuring performers including Anne Sofie von Otter, Mireille Delunsch, Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, William Christie and Les Art Florissants, Mariinsky Ballet and Valery Gergiev to name a few. |
Bellevue Entertainment
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Bellevue Entertainment’s portfolio consists of entertainment, documentary, special interest and children’s programs. These include the popular Guitar For Dummies DVDs, Wildlife Paradise and Killer Instinct DVDs. |
Berlin Classics
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Berlin Classics presents the great classics interpreted by established and up-and-coming young artists including Simone Kermes, Kurt Masur, Herbert Blomstedt, Kurt Sanderling, Peter Schreier, Ludwig Guttler, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Staatskapellen Dresden und Berlin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Dresden Philharmonie, Rundfunkchore Leipzig and Berlin, Dresden Kreuzchor and Thomanerchor Leipzig on a catalogue of well over 2,000 titles. |
BGS Records
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BGS Records is the label of the prestigious International Guitar Foundation, which organises festivals, summer schools, outreach and educational programs in the UK. Alongside acclaimed and emerging guitarists, BGS Records has also released recordings by the renowned English lutenist Nigel North. |
Bis Records
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The Swedish label BIS explores the unjustly neglected domains of music, travelling all over the world to make recordings, from concert halls in Singapore or São Paulo, to a church in the English countryside, a student chapel in Kobe or to Lahti's superb Sibelius Hall. BIS fosters works by women composers, is a highly respected ‘early music’ label (recording with, among others, Emma Kirkby, Dan Laurin, Bach Collegium Japan and London Baroque) as well as one of the liveliest contemporary music labels (with composers like Kalevi Aho, Christopher Rouse, Sally Beamish and James MacMillan). |
Body & Soul
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Body & Soul is our unique range of relaxation CDs. Each title is specially recorded, contemporarily packaged, and contains a selection of beautiful music designed to relieve stress, promote wellbeing and aid meditation. Ten titles are available individually or in a value-for-money box set. |
Bonsai Music
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Acoustic, French and Italian pop music are the focus of the French Bonsai Music label, with featured artists including Ben Sidran, Musica Nuda, Matthieu Bore, Gianmaria Testa, Melody Players and other established and young emerging talents. |
BR Klassik
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BR-Klassik is the label of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus and the Munich Radio Orchestra, devoted to making concert performances more widely available on recordings of excellent quality. |
Brass Classics
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Brass Classics is a new label which focuses on repertoire for brass instruments and ensembles, with some fascinating titles exploring the less familiar repertoire, all performed by outstanding artists. It is a sister label to Cello Classics and Clarinet Classics. |
Bravissimo
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Bravissimo presents boxed sets of legendary operatic performances, focussing either on repertoire (French, German, Italian, Russian), artists (including Callas, Corelli, Domingo, Freni, Pavarotti, Schwartzkopf, Scotto, Tebaldi), or thematic ties (such as Bel Canto, Romantic Operas, Shakespeare at the Opera). |
Bredon Hill
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Bredon Hill presents Simon Callow’s popular Classical Destinations DVDs with music performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Explore Europe's most spectacular cities and landscapes while luxuriating in the great classical music composed within their precincts. |
Brilliant Classics
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Brilliant Classics’s popular and critically acclaimed recordings have become industry trademarks. In addition to titles devoted to individual composers, such as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov and many more, the Brilliant Classics Opera Collection includes performances by such legends as Maria Callas, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Boris Christoff and Tito Gobbi, the Russian Archives presents artists such as Emil Gilels, Evgeny Kissin, David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter, and the Musica Sacra collection documents the most beautiful sacred works ever written. |
Bygone Days
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Bygone Days brings nostalgic and historic recordings to a new level of quality. Each release contains over an hour of music and combines both classics and rare, seldom heard recordings which have been sympathetically digitally re-mastered to retain the integrity of the original recordings. The series features many recordings never previously available on CD. Featured artists include Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Yma Sumac, The Andrews Sisters and Kathleen Ferrier, as well as ranges devoted to hits of bygone decades. Each is packaged to reflect the content, while certain design elements, such as a high quality slip-case, are incorporated across the entire range. Track listings are always exhaustively researched and full extensive sleeve notes, written by experts in each genre, are included with each release. |
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C Major
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C Major DVD includes performances by Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Anna Netrebko, Placido Domingo, Cecilia Bartoli and other legendary classical music stars in more than 2,100 programs of music and art on film and TV formats. C Major Entertainment has distributes the unique UNITEL Catalogue. |
Canary Classics
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Canary Classics was founded by the American violinist Gil Shaham. Releases include superb recordings of Ross Edwards’s Maninyas and virtuoso violin works by Sarasate featuring Shaham’s wife Adele Anthony, Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and David Zinman, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor with Yefim Bronfman and Truls Mørk, as well as many featuring Gil Shaham himself. |
Cantaloupe
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Cantaloupe Music is the record label created in 2001 by the three founders of New York's legendary Bang on a Can Festival: composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, and Bang on a Can managing director Kenny Savelson. Cantaloupe Music has made a massive impact in the new music community, and been recognised by critics and fans around the globe for its adventurous sounds. Its goal is to provide a home for "music that slips between the cracks." In its six-year history, Cantaloupe has repeatedly received ‘Top 10 of the Year’ accolades from publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian (UK), The Wire, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Mojo, Gramophone and more. Its releases have also been featured on CNN, PitchforkMedia, NPR, PaperThinWalls, BBC, and other major tv/radio/online outlets. Through Cantaloupe Music, Bang on a Can continues its mission to spread the gospel of risk-taking new music. Bang on a Can -- dedicated to the work of composers across the entire aesthetic spectrum -- has created a home for musical inventors, misfits, and pioneers. |
Cantolopera
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Cantolopera offers recordings with the voice or principle instrument removed for studying and practicing, as well as the full versions as example and guide. These high quality recordings make the perfect accompaniment for the classical and opera enthusiast, professionals and students, interested in improving their craft, or to simply enjoy the experience of performance. |
Capriccio
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With a focus on German repertoire from Bach to Weill and Krenek, Capriccio’s distinguished artists include Christine Schafer, Rolando Villazon (on DVD), violist Tabea Zimmermann, Concerto Köln, Ton Koopman, Lotte Lenya, Emma Kirkby, Max Emanuel Cencic and other leading musicians from Europe. The label’s specialties range from the Baroque to modern German composers. Owned by Naxos, Capriccio is one of Germany’s finest labels with one of the richest back-catalogues available. |
Capriol Films
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Capriol Films has produced a string of high profile films, ranging though documentary, opera and drama. All films are shot in high definition - Capriol Films led the way in the adoption of this exciting new technology - and are of the highest quality, both technically and artistically. |
Carl Davis Collection
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The American composer and conductor Carl Davis is best known for his wide variety of successful film and television scores. His own label presents a wide-ranging selection of his music, including music for ballet (Alice In Wonderland), film (Ben-Hur, The Understudy), TV (Cranford, Upstairs Downstairs Series 2), as well as concert pieces such as The Beatle for Orchestra. |
Carpe Diem
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Carpe Diem is a creative German record label for Early Music, Improvised Music and stylistic border walks. Exceptional artistic accomplishment, the highest audiophile quality and contemporary graphic design show that vibrant music is always contemporary, always enjoyable. |
Carus
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Carus is one of the major music publishers in Germany, specialing in sacred choral music from all historical periods. Carus is a label that, instead of seeking mass appeal, sets high standards of interpretation and repertoire. Its Cds have won numerous awards, including Gramophone Editor's Choice, the MIDEM Classical Award, BBC Radio Critics disc of the Year, Diapason d'Or, the Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Prize and more. |
CBC Records
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CBC Records is CBC/Radio Canada’s award-winning record label. Its catalogue encompasses all kinds of music, from classical to pop to jazz to world music. |
CD Accord
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The award-winning label CD Accord was established in 1995 and records the most distinguished Polish composers, soloists, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra and choruses. Important repertoire for the company includes music by Jarzebski, Chopin, Wieniawski, Moniuszko, Karlowicz, Szymanowski, Bacewicz, Lutoslawski, Panufnik, Penerecki, Kilar, Gorecki and Szymanski. |
Cello Classics
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Cello Classics is a new label dedicated to unusual and unexplored repertoire for the cello, played by some of the most exciting players of the past and the present, and introducing some of the cellists of the future. It is a sister label to Brass Classics and Clarinet Classics and its artists include Chinese-Australian cellist Li-Wei. |
Champs Hill Records
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Champs Hill Records is dedicated to recordings made at the Champs Hill Hall in the UK, a venue of choice for recitals and chamber music. Its releases reflect the range of interesting repertoire and the calibre of artists who have performed and recorded there, including Dame Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson, Schubert Ensemble and London Mozart Trio |
Chandos
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Chandos Records is one of the world's premiere classical music record companies, best known for its ground-breaking search for neglected musical gems. The company has pioneered the idea of the 'series' and proudly includes series of such composers as Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Parry and Walton with ongoing series of Grainger, Berkeley, Bridge, Film Music and Opera in English. Renowned for its superb sound quality, Chandos has won many prestigious awards for its natural sound. |
Channel Classics
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Channel Classics Records is a quality record label based in Holland which offers the perfect combination of sound and performance. Artists and ensembles include Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Florilegium, Netherlands Bach Society, Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Pieter Wispelwey, The Gents, Dejan Lazic and many more. |
Le Chant du Monde
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Created 70 years ago, Le Chant du Monde publishes recordings of the highest artistic quality in diverse musical worlds: jazz, French chanson, international music, children’s music, manouche gypsy jazz, and lush French pop. Artists include jazz guitarist Angelo Debarre and Tchavolo Schmitt, as well as a host of jazz greats and French icons such as Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour (part of the Golden Century chanson range).
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Cherry Red Records
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Cherry Red Records has been the original home of independent thinking music since its inception in 1978, presenting the finest indie, alternative, punk and pop music created over the last five decades. |
Christopher Nupen Films
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Christopher Nupen Films (Allegro™ Films) was formed in 1968, possibly the first truly independent television production company in the UK and one which has remained in the world-wide forefront of television music programming ever since. The hallmarks of these films are intimacy, exuberance and insights into musical experience that were previously the private preserve of the great musicians and their intimate friends. |
Christophorus
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Christophorus carries a wide-ranging musical program and is at the same time the name of the oldest German record label concentrating on sacred music, with particular emphasis on unfamiliar repertoire and historical interpretation. Gregorian chant, music of the Renaissance, sacred vocal works, music of the Christian churches and the hymns of Taize are all represented in its catalogue. In this field, Christophorus is recognised as one of the most important independent labels on the international market. |
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra was the first orchestra to be broadcast to a national USA radio audience in 1921 and the third American orchestra to make a commercial recording in 1917. The Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras have sold over 10 million recordings since 1980. |
Clarinet Classics
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Clarinet Classics provides a focus for clarinet enthusiasts – performers and listeners alike – by issuing carefully chosen programs that are both entertaining and informative. The label continues to diversify, offering a range of superb performances recorded with care and skill. It is a sister label to Brass Classics and Cello Classics. |
Collegium Records
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Collegium Records was established in 1984 as a label dedicated to the Cambridge Singers, with the aim of presenting a range of choral recordings of musical excellence and high technical quality. Recently, the Choir of Clare College Cambridge directed by Timothy Brown has joined the label. |
Coro
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Coro is the lively and successful record label of Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, and releases most of the ensemble’s new recordings. The label also features artists such as The Hilliard Ensemble, Elin Manahan Thomas and Sarah Connolly as well as a ‘Live’ series, a young artists focus and the Acoustic World collection of discs. |
Coviello
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Coviello is a boutique German label which nonetheless covers music from the Renaissance to modern times. Established names such as soprano Dorothee Mields and tenor Paul Agnew, new groups including Bennewitz Quartet, orchestras like the Aachen Symphony and Stuttgart Philharmonic and ensembles such as the Berlin Radio Choir, Capella de la Torre, Mannheim Brass Quintet, Capella Angelica and Lautten Compagney - and many more - are to be found here. |
CPO
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Few labels have captured as much recent international attention as cpo. Awarded the Cannes Classical Award for the best label (worldwide!) at MIDEM and the Lower Saxon Music Prize in appreciation for creative service, cpo seeks true musical treasures - from the Renaissance to the modern – that remain to be discovered. Their editions of music by Pfitzner, Korngold, Hindemith and Pettersen have been highly praised. |
Crimson Productions
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Crimson Productions releases some of the strongest budget compilations in the market. Spanning a number of genres such as Rock, Pop, R&B, Dance, Easy Listening and Classical, there is something for everyone at a price that delivers excellent value and quality. |
Cristal Records
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The Cristal Records label has gained great recognition in in jazz circles for ‘defying fate with an activist attitude’ as Jazzman Magazine has written. Wonderful recordings by Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Lena Horne, Sonny Rollins, Charles Trenet and many other great artists have a prominent place in its catalogue. |
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Dacapo
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The Danish label dacapo has produced some 300 CD recordings in collaboration with the best Danish musicians, singers and composers, as well as international ensembles. Dacapo has received four Classical CD of the Year awards at the Danish Grammys and been nominated for countless other prestigious awards around the world. Dacapo exclusively records Danish music, from the compositions of the Middle Ages to brand new contemporary, jazz and experimental music, the quality of which has critics hailing a ‘New Danish Golden Age’. |
DSO Live (Dallas Symphony Orchestra)
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra under music director Jaap van Zweden presents the finest in classical music at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, regarded as one of the world’s premiere concert halls. It’s new DSO Live label captures all the excitement and immediacy of its concert performances. |
Decadance
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Decadance is the UK’s leading dance box set range containing a variety of 4-CD selections. Each great value box set contains 60 tracks crammed full of recent and classic dance hits. A combination of distinctive eye-catching packaging and hit filled track listings has meant nearly 2 million box sets sold to date. |
Delos
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Delos enjoys a superb reputation for fine artists, especially organists and choirs, and for sound. Recording guru (and sometime organist) John Eargle, Delos' primary engineer, has literally written the book about professional audiophile recording techniques. Renowned artists recording for Delos include Rene Fleming, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Zuill Bailey, Angel Romero, and the Brazilian and Los Angeles Guitar Quartets. |
Delta
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Delta’s extensive catalogue of CDs boasts a wide range of genres including pop, rock, jazz and new age, and has made it one of the leaders in the field. The Delta DVD catalogue has grown dramatically over the last five years and offers a wide selection of TV programmes, children's, special interest, documentaries, music, classic film, and exclusively owned content. |
Divox
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Based in Switzerland, Divox covers music from ancient to modern by mainstream and less familiar composers, as well as world music. Divox has always taken pride in its commitment to individual musicians and their own interpretations, as well as the quality of the recordings themselves. |
DMG TV
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DMG TV has sold over 2.5 million units and is positioned as a label of choice for frontline Easy Listening/MOR Artists such as Daniel O'Donnell, Foster & Allen, Jane McDonald, Mary Duff & Charlie Landsborough. The label has achieved 17 Silver, 8 Gold and 2 Platinum status albums. |
Dreyfus
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Dreyfus Music, one of the biggest independent Jazz and French Music labels in France, was founded by Francis Dreyfus, the iconic French producer whose work encompassed the sixties through to the 21st century, died in June 2010. His main legacy is as producer and label to Jean Michel Jarre, with whom for a period of 25 years he sold many millions of albums in all around the world. |
Dusk Fire
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Dusk Fire recordings that transcend the day to day. The label specialises in CD reissues of jazz and folk music, as well as new recordings by established artists and ensembles including Neil Ardley, Steve Ashley and the New Jazz Orchestra. |
Dutton (including Epoch & Vocalion)
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Dutton (including Epoch and Vocalion), one of the UK's finest record labels specialising in re-issuing on CD music recorded between the 1920s and 1970s, and in issuing albums of modern digital recordings, was established by leading British recording and re-mastering engineer Michael J Dutton. The Epoch series champions unrecorded music of 20th-century British classical composers such as Arnold Bax, York Bowen and Granville Bantock in world-class modern digital recordings performed by some of Britain's finest orchestras, conductors and soloists. Vocalion features light music, big bands/dance bands, jazz, easy listening, vocalists and 1950s/'60s pop. Vocalion first made its name with a celebrated and ongoing series of CDs featuring the recordings of famous 1930s and '40s British dance bands, including those led by Ambrose, Geraldo, Oscar Rabin and Maurice Winnick. |
Dynamic
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Within the vast catalogue of this Italian boutique label, the specialties are opera, baroque rarities, and historical recordings from the 60s (including Callas, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and early John Williams). Dynamic has recently launched a delectable mid-price baroque series, Delizie musicali, and its particularly rich DVD range boasts perhaps the only available DVD of Bizet’s complete Pearlfishers. |
Dynamic Music
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Hit Parades from the 1930s to the 1950s, Essential Collections from Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Mario Lanza, Leroy Anderson, Frank Sinatra, Hank Williams and other great artists, Gospel greats, love songs, and much more are to be found on this fascinating nostalgia label. |
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East Meets West
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East Meets West Music is the official recording label of The Ravi Shankar Foundation. With unique access to an archive featuring thousands of hours of live performance audio, film footage, interviews, and studio masters, EMWMusic releases rare recordings and provides audiences with the definitive portrait of Ravi Shankar's long career. And, in keeping with Ravi's dedication to looking forward and not back, EMWMusic provides a vibrant platform for new artists, projects, and collaborations. |
Eastgate
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Tangerine Dream is one of the world’s most groundbreaking, influential and prolific bands, innovating since the 1960s in Krautrock, psychedelic, ambient and synthesizer music. Tangerine Dream’s own label, Eastgate, is now distributed in Australia for the first time exclusively by Select: over 80 titles including original new music, re-recorded classics and live concerts. Presented in fold-out digipak cases with surreal, psychedelic cover art, this is a label the fans and collectors will love! |
Edsel
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Edsel is one of the longest-established reissue labels in the world, with a large catalogue of rock, soul, R&B, psychedelia, country, blues, folk and soundtracks. It is the home of the classic catalogues of Marc Bolan and T.Rex, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Al Green, Gillan, John Foxx, Michael Nesmith, and the Philadelphia International Records label (Teddy Pendergrass, The O’Jays, Lou Rawls, the Jones Girls, and others). All Edsel releases are put together by experts for the serious fan and casual browser alike. Original albums are repackaged with booklet notes, photos and bonus tracks. |
Eloquentia
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The primary objective of Eloquentia is to discover new talent, especially young singers, and to explore vocal repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries with excursions back into earlier eras. Artists include Joyce DiDonato, La Cappella de’ Turchini, Antonio Florio, Harmonie Universelle, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Luigi Piovano, Luisa Prayer, Maria Grazia Schiavo, David Zobel and Giuseppe de Vittorio. |
Esoteric
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Established in 2007, Esoteric Recordings is the home of Progressive, Psychedlic and Classic Rock, with all releases finely packaged and remastered from the best possible sources to ensure the highest possible audio quality. Esoteric releases cover both catalogue reissues and inspiring new works from artists with a fine history and heritage. Esoteric Recordings is an imprint of the Cherry Red Records group. |
Essence
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The Essence range has captured the inherent nature of its artists’ musical talents. With in-depth sleeve notes the high-quality, budget-priced 2-CD sets offer great insights into the musical abilities and successes of iconic artists that continue to influence and captivate generations of today. Essence boasts such best-selling jazz, blues and nostalgia legends as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker and more.
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Etcetera
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From Early Music, through the Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoires to the exciting music of the modern era, Etcetera Records presents leading musicians and ensembles in highly praised performances. Bach to Bizet, Byrd to Britten, Schubert to Richard Strauss - there's a wealth of excellent titles to suit music lovers. |
EuroArts DVD
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EuroArts has quickly made a name for itself worldwide by producing and distributing classical music and jazz programs. EuroArts sets high standards with its classical music and jazz DVDs, consistently using all technological and content opportunities offered by the medium. In addition to the featured films, the DVDs offer extra features such as artist portraits, interviews and ‘Behind the Scenes’ documentaries. |
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Fab Four
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Membran’s Fab Four 4-CD box sets bring you several different worlds of music – from the classical artistry of Leonard Bernstein, Alfred Brendel, Glenn Gould, Yehudi Menuhin and Gerard Souzay, to Blues giants including BB King and Ray Charles, Gospel legends such as Mahalia Jackson, Country greats Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins, much-loved singers Bing Crosby, Harry Belafonte, Yves Montand and Caterina Valente, Rock ‘N’ Roller king Elvis Presley, jazz masters Louis Armstrong, Mile Davis and many more. |
Fiona Campbell
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Multi-award-winning Australian mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell’s first solo album Love+Loss is an ARIA Awards 2012 Nomination and presents emotionally-charged cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, Haydn and Haydn, gaining critical praise for her ‘delicacy and nobility of expression’, ‘superlative phrasing’ and ‘compelling performance’. |
First Edition
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First Edition celebrates the achievement of the Louisville Orchestra, whose ambitious legacy of recordings made between 1952 and 1967 provides a unique and important survey of music by European and American composers, a number of whom conduct their own music on these historic, stylishly presented and remastered discs. |
Fleur de Son
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Fleur De Son Classics releases world premiere or rarely recorded repertoire, constantly seeking new and exciting projects through which classical musicians and classical composers may express themselves in chamber music, solo repertoire, early music and works for orchestra. Fleur de Son titles have been named ‘Best of the Year’ by Fanfare and American Record Guide, and have been praised in prestigious publications such as the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Soundboard, Gramophone and Classical Music Magazine. |
Fugue State Films
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Founded in 2007, Fugue State Films make innovative, engaging and engrossing films for the discerning viewer. Presented in beautifully produced boxed sets containing both a DVD and one or more CDs, its releases have gained critical acclaim from Gramophone, The Organists’ Review, Early Music Review and other leading music publications. |
Futur Acoustic
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SIXUN is the triumph of a spicy, multicolored musical mélange of sung melodies over a polyrhythmic background full of eternally renewed energy and drive. SIXUN is 20 years of adventures, successes, and touring, with eclipses and breaks of variable duration to let each member of the tribe catch his breath and enrich himself with new experiences.
THE COOL CROONERS: 'In spite of war, poverty, disease, corruption, cynicism, and indifference, there is always a bit of blue sky somewhere.' In the 1950s, deep in the heart of Africa, they were crazy about jazz to the point that all they dreamed about was to become singers. Their careers took off in the most promising manner, but the turmoil of a long fight for independence in Zimbabwe brought chaos and mayhem. Today, they are starting a second life. The charm of their harmonising voices has retained great strength and tradition.
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The Gift of Music
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Beautifully presented with charming cover art, CDs from British label The Gift of Music include a Celtic collection, Early Music, Nostalgia and classic jazz, Children’s Music, and ranges for art lovers, book lovers, and even cat lovers! The Gift of Music really does have the perfect CD for every occasion – from a housewarming to a Christmas gathering – and is ideal for classical retailers, gift stores, book shops and art galleries. |
Gimell
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Gimell Records was founded in 1981 to record The Tallis Scholars. Its catalogue of more than thirty-five recordings has performed a pioneering role in the re-appraisal of unaccompanied sacred choral music of the 15th and 16th centuries. The consistently high artistic and technical standards achieved have been acknowledged by many prestigious record industry awards, including the Gramophone Record of the Year Award. |
Globe
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Acclaimed by Fanfare as 'the Dutch quality label', Globe Records presents a range of titles that is well conceived, well executed and well produced. It offers an A-to-Z of both composers (Acensio, Albeniz and Andriessen to Wolf, Zemlinsky and Zelenka) and performers (Roberta Alexander, John Alldis and Elly Ameling to Pieter Wispelwey, Giuseppe Zampieri and Titia de Zwart). |
Glossa
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Spain's internationally renowned label, widely considered the world's finest in early music, is based in San Lorenzo de El Escorial in the mountains near Madrid. Founded in 1992, its great names in early music and exclusive performers include Paolo Pandolfo (viol da gamba), the Gramophone Award-winning La Venexiana, the Orchestra of the 18th Century, and Le Concert Spirituel. Beautifully presented digipaks and cover art make this label one of the most highly praised and collected in classical music. One of Glossa’s most exciting ventures is the integral recording of the madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. |
Glyndebourne
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Glyndebourne is recognised globally as one of the great opera houses. Its productions travel worldwide, are performed live in other opera houses, screened in cinemas from New York to Tokyo, and available on Glyndebourne Opera’s own label. Whether documenting historic or newly-minted productions, the Glyndebourne label has been critically acclaimed for its stunning live recordings of operas by Beethoven, Britten, Debussy, Donizetti, Dvorak, Handel, Humperdinck, Mozart, Prokofiev, Richard Strauss and Verdi. |
Gonzo
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The Gonzo label has released a wide and eclectic range on both DVD and CD, including iconic recordings by progressive rock group Yes. |
Grand Piano
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Grand Piano is a new premium label dedicated to the exploration of undiscovered repertoire for piano, including complete piano cycles of lesser known composers in exciting interpretations presenting by many of the world’s most exciting up-and-coming pianists. |
Greatest Ever
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Greatest Ever’s 3-CD box sets are among the strongest multi-artist compilations on the market, with the greatest ever songs, stunning packaging and an appealing price. From Country Music classics, Dance Anthems, Chartbusters and Wartime Memories; Christmas evergreens, Rock ‘N’ Roll Legends and Girls Night Out hits; Karaoke to Heavy Metal; as well as Hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s – there’s something everyone will enjoy. |
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100 Hits
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100 Hits has sold over 2.2 million 5-CD sets to date, and the label continues to go from strength to strength delivering not only great value, but quality tracks by many great artists from the ‘50s onwards. Thematic sets range from Disco to Karaoke, Country to Rock’n’Roll, Christmas to Classical, Indie to Irish Party. |
Haenssler Classics
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The German label Haenssler Classic features a wide-ranging repertoire of music from Albinoni to Wagner, Bach to Boulez, Telemann to Tchaikovsky, and many more performed by artists, choirs, ensembles and orchestras from Britain, Europe, Israel and the USA such as Christophe Prégardien, Roger Norrington and the Stuttgart RSO, Gerhard Oppitz, Helmuth Rilling and the Stuttgart Bach Collegium, London Symphony Orchestra, Les Percussions de Strasbourg and many more. |
Hallé
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The Hallé is Britain's longest-established symphony orchestra, founded in Manchester by Sir Charles Hallé in 1858.The Hallé CD label was relaunched in 2008 with two brand new releases including the critically acclaimed Dream of Gerontius with Sir Mark Elder, Paul Groves, Alice Coote, Bryn Terfel, the Hallé Choir and the Hallé Youth Choir. ‘However respectfully the Hallé honours its 150-year history, performances like this suggest that the golden era may be happening right now’ – The Guardian |
Harmless
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For more than a decade, Harmless Records has released countless compilations ranging from soul, funk and breaks through to the more modern sounds of drum and bass, dubstep and house. Harmless continues to work with some of the finest DJs and producers the UK, Europe and the world has to offer for its broad range of compilations. Its Backbeats range of Soul/RNB classics uses the full original 12-inch or album versions from the original artists and showcases the talents of some of the world’s best compilers. |
Harmonia Mundi
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The largest independent producer of classical recordings in France, the artist roster for Harmonia Mundi reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of classical music superstars. With ensembles including The Academy of Ancient Music to Trio Wanderer, Al Ayre Español to Theatre of Voices, Les Arts Florissants to Tokyo String Quartet, artists such as William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Andrew Manze, Kent Nagano, Dorothea Röschmann, Andreas Scholl, Andreas Staier and Alexandre Tharaud, leading chamber groups, choirs, orchestras – the list is virtually endless and covers most musical periods and classical genres. |
Harle Records
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Composer John Harle understands both the jazz and classical traditions, and is brilliant at coaxing musicians of different backgrounds to work creatively together. Harle Records features performers such as Elvis Costello, Andy Sheppard, Richard Rodney Bennett, Paul Jones, Sarah Leonard, Steve Lodder, Stan Tracey, Alexander Balanescu, Guy Barker, Adrian Utley, The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields and The Choir of Worcester Cathedral.
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HatHut
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HatHut stands as one of the most adventurous and important independent new music labels in the world. A label with undeniable jazz roots (primarily of important avant-garde artists such as Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor on Hatology), its catalogue now boasts such recognized names as Stockhausen, Cage, Scelsi, Haubenstock-Ramati, Feldman and Tenney (on Hatnowart), and the label has been widely acclaimed. |
Heads Up
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Heads Up brings a roster of current artists and legendary catalogues, carrying with it the mission to “enrich lives by providing music of timeless appeal in innovative ways”. With this commitment to the music-loving public, they are focused on music of quality and long-term appeal. |
Heresy
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Heresy is a new record label that takes an unorthodox and unconventional approach, exploring the great artistic movements and popular traditions of the past and the cultural transformations of the Internet era to present surprising, original and meaningful musical experiences. Artists include eX, Dulra and The Dublin Drag Orchestra. |
Howe Records
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From The Lord of the Rings to Hugo, Cosmopolis to his unique Collectors Edition, multi-Academy Award, Grammy and Golden Globe Award-winning composer Howard Shore presents his music on his own label. From grandly symphonic cinematic classics to quirky jazz/electronica shots, Howard Shore’s music is both highly popular and critically respected. |
Hyperion
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Gramophone Label of The Year 2008. The repertoire available on the multi-award-winning Hyperion label, and its subsidiary label Helios, ranges across the entire spectrum of music – sacred and secular, choral and solo vocal, orchestral, chamber and instrumental – much of it is unique to Hyperion. The catalogue currently comprises nearly 1500 CDs, with approximately 80 new titles issued each year. Acclaimed artists include Angela Hewitt, Steven Isserlis, Stephen Hough, Emma Kirkby and Australians Piers Lane and the Goldner String Quartet. |
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ICA Classics
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ICA CLASSICS is a division of the management agency International Classical Artists Ltd (ICA). The new label features both archive material from sources such as the BBC, WDR in Cologne and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (the LEGACY series), as well as performances from the agency’s own artists recorded in prestigious venues around the world (the LIVE series). The majority of the recordings are enjoying their first commercial release.
The ICA Classics team have been instrumental in the success of many audio and audiovisual productions over the years including the origination of the DVD series The Art of Conducting, The Art of Piano and The Art of Violin; the archive based DVD series Classic Archive; co-production documentaries featuring artists such as Richter, Fricsay, Mravinsky and Toscanini; the creation of the BBC Legends archive label, launched in 1998 (now comprising more than 250 CDs), and the audio series Great Conductors of the 20th Century produced for EMI Classics.
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The Intro Collection
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These beautifully packaged 3-CD box sets feature a broad range of music and represent fantastic value for money. The series includes classic and contemporary artists, lifestyle collections and specially themed compilations, with striking, modern designs presented in smart, card slipcases. Each CD is housed in a jewel box and includes an introduction plus detailed notes on all tracks featured.
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Jazz Manifesto
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From the creators of the successful Bygone Days label, Jazz Manifesto features full length and double albums from some of the world’s jazz greats: Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan and more. An alternative to the ubiquitous ‘best of’ ranges, Jazz Manifesto offers complete classic albums digitally re-mastered.
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Jazz Village
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Jazz Village seeks to cultivates an open-minded spirit imbued with the same passion for jazz as its sister label World Village has brought to world music. Artists include Ahmad Jamal, the apostle of the New American Classical Music, Sandra Nkaké, a major figure of innovative urban contemporary music, Cuban jazz supremo Roberto Fonseca, trumpeter Raynald Colom, and the renowned Orchestre National de Jazz. |
JCL Records
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Showcasing the talents of artists from Jonathan Cooke Limited’s roster, the independent UK-based label JCL Records has gained praise for its thoughtful programming, excellent performances and audio quality - from South American and European folk and guitar music to Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Rachmaninov’s piano music to cello sonatas by Brahms, Richard Strauss and Thuille. |
Juxtapositions DVD
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Juxtapositions is a unique DVD collection focusing on contemporary music. Each title explores the world of a particular composer via one or more works, with the composers and their most famous interpreters playing an active part in the process of elucidation. From Gustav Mahler to Arvo Pärt, from Europe to America and Asia, new musical continents emerge and burst into passionate life as the viewer embarks on a thrilling voyage of discovery, guided by talented film-directors. The collection centres around documentaries created by Dutch film maker Frank Scheffer, one of the foremost directors of our |
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K617
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The French label K617 was launched in 1990 and has issued numerous recordings, many of which have received important awards such as Diapason d’Or de l’année, RTL d’Or, ffff Télérama, Fondation Cini à Venise. Its ‘Pathways of the Baroque’ series explores forgotten treasures of the European and Latin American Baroque, while the ‘Adventures’ and ‘Organ’ series bring to life opera/oratorio and music for the ‘king of instruments’, respectively. |
Keda Records
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Hindi, Punjabi, bhangra, instrumental, film soundtracks, Indo-West collaborations, global music, world jazz and chill-out, Keda Records is the premiere UK-based Asian record label and owned by leading composer, producer and tabla player, Kuljit Bhamra. |
KML Recordings
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Katia and Marielle Labèque are the most popular and innovative duo pianists recording today. After many releases for EMI, Philips and Sony, Katia and Marielle's aspiration to build a bridge crossing all style of music and contemporary creation led them in 2007 to form their own record, KML Recordings. Their debut on KML, a disc of Ravel piano duets, explores the sisters’ roots in the region of France closest to Spain, while their Schubert and Mozart CD was awarded 2008 Album Of The Year in the New York Times. |
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Ligia
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The French company Ligia is particularly strong in keyboard repertoire, with a large collection of discs from the dynamic young organist Olivier Vernet (whose recordings of Bach and Liszt have been particularly well received by the critical press), but has also developed a series of unusual chamber repertoire, particularly from the Baroque period, featuring such renowned artists as Roberta Invernizzi, Johanette Zomer, Sagittarius and La Turbulente. |
Lipkind Productions
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The desire to produce unique recordings sets Lipkind Productions in a niche of its own. Gavriel Lipkind enjoyed a stellar rise to fame as a young cellist before making the decision to further his studies and launch his own record label, which has been well received. |
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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Highly respected for its ongoing Shostakovich Symphonies series on Naxos, the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has launched its own label with a sparkling recording of Offenbach’s rarely heard operetta ‘A Husband At The Door’ coupled with ‘Fontaine’s Fables’, conducted by Vasily Petrenko. |
Loft
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The American label Loft Recordings has an international focus and specialises in organ recordings with an early music emphasis. It also incorporates the Clarion, Gothic and Quilisma catalogues, which cover American choirs performing world premiere and unusual repertoire. |
London Philharmonic Orchestra
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra made its first recordings on 10 October 1932, just three days after its first public performance following its founding by Sir Thomas Beecham. It has recorded and broadcast regularly ever since, and in 2005, established its own CD label. These CDs are unique: amongst them are archive recordings, studio recordings, live concert recordings and recordings of world-premiere performances. Repertoire encompasses music from the baroque to the present day; music for the concert hall, music for the opera house, and music for children. Conducted by the charismatic Vladimir Jurowski, the LPO tours Australia late 2009. |
London Symphony Orchestra Live
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LSO Live captures the world famous orchestra’s concert performances - the musicians choose what should be recorded and are involved throughout the production process. To date LSO Live has released 80 recordings with many of the world’s leading conductors including Valery Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons and the late Mstislav Rostropovich. The label won its first Grammy awards in 2002 and since collected Classical Brit Awards, Gramophone Awards and numerous other international prizes. |
Long Distance
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Traditional acoustic music of the world is a seemingly inexhaustible source of new sounds and new ways of expressing emotions in music. Founded by celebrated film score composer Armand Amar, the label strives to create a proper synthesis between authenticity and (production) quality by recording music. Dedicated to the more urban musical currents, a second line has been created within the label, named 'Cities'. Amar also runs a world music studio in Paris which has a legendary collection of some 300 instruments from around the globe.
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Manticore
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Manticore Records was the legendary imprint established by Emerson Lake & Palmer in 1973 for the purposes of releasing new ELP-related material, but also to promote the work of artists admired by the band. The label was active for just over three years, but during this time the imprint released a series of wonderful albums by artists such as Stray Dog, P.F.M., Banco, Pete Sinfield, Keith Christmas and others. |
Marabi
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Marabi is the label created in 2002 by Christian Mousset, director of Festival de Musiques Métisses d’Angoulème in France. The festival is widely opened to urban popular musics from the African Continent, Indian Ocean, Carribean and the Americas. On the same artistic line, the label privileges upcoming artists and patrimonial leading figures.
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Marco Polo
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The original concept of the Marco Polo label was to bring to listeners unknown compositions by well-known composers. There was, at the same time, an ambition to bring the East to the West. Since then there have been many changes in public taste and in the availability of recorded music. Composers once little known are now easily available in recordings. Marco Polo, in consequence, has set out on further adventures of discovery and exploration. |
Mariinsky
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St Petersburg’s famous Mariinsky Theatre has hosted many of the world’s leading musicians since its foundation more than 200 years ago. Today it celebrates this ongoing tradition with outstanding recordings of internationally established artists and ensembles including the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. |
Market Square Records
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Market Square Records releases lost gems from past and new recordings by new and established artists working in the genres of folk/roots, pop, jazz, fusion, and rock. Artists include Steve Ashley, Kevin Ayers, Rod Clements, Moondogs, Nirvana, and many more. |
MDG
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Musikproduktion Dabringhaus Und Grimm (MDG) is a leading German independent label that takes great pride in the natural acoustics and highly nuanced quality of its outstanding recordings, which range from masterpieces of early music to exciting contemporary compositions from Byrd and Bach to Zemlinsky. |
Medici Masters
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Medici Masters releases classic recordings by legendary ensembles and artists including the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, Teresa Berganza, Pierre Fournier, Hans Hotter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Michael Rubin, Eugeene Goossens, Artur Rubenstein and others. |
Melodiya
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Founded in 1964 to bring great performers and composers to their listeners in Russia and the world over, Melodiya is today a dynamic company. More than 60,000 recordings of classical music, jazz, applied and variety music provides a solid base for the young and ambitious team to shape a new Melodiya for the 21st Century. |
Membran
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Membran is one of the music industry's leading European independents, with a particularly strong range of blues and jazz titles featuring all the greats from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith to Benny Goodman, Herman Woody and Miles Davis on its the Story of the Blues and Jazz in the Charts series, as well as individual albums. |
Metro
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Metro boasts around 200 popular, low-price CD titles, each featuring excellent cover artwork and an 8-page sleeve note detailing artist career highlights with track-by-track comments, and lovingly compiled by experts in their respective fields. Best sellers across a very broad musical spectrum include Nina Simone: The Essential Album, Kirsty MacColl: The One And Only, John Lee Hooker:The Definitive Collection and Richard Clayderman: Close To You. Metro Select 2-CD titles are packaged in a six-panel digipack and come with a collectors’ 24-page full colour fold-out poster. |
Mirare
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This boutique French label features a number of world-renowned performers, including pianists Zhu Xiao-Mei, Iddo Bar-Shai, Boris Berezovsky, Claire Desert, Shani Diluka, Brigitte Engerer, Philippe Giusiano, Anne Queffelec, Emmanuel Stosser, harpsichordist Pierre Hantai, Trio Chausson, Ricercar Consort, singers including countertenor Carlos Mena and baritone Jerome Correas, orchestras and ensembles directed by Michel Corboz, John Nelson – and many other fine musicians. Beautifully recorded and packaged, Mirare CDs are highly praised and much awarded |
Motif
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From the stirring wartime speeches of Winston Churchill to the magic of Andre Rieu, the best of Country and Irish to Hollywood Musicals, with greatest hits by Shirley Bassey, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, Engelbert Humperdinck and others, Motif is also a label which is home to releases from some of today’s most exciting acts. |
Music Club Deluxe
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Music Club Deluxe is an outstanding mid-priced 2-CD single-artist range. It boasts top quality repertoire from household names, from The Average White Band to Dionne Warwick, Bay City Rollers to The Yarbirds, with selections and sleeve notes by experts for novices and fans alike and striking artwork with slip-cased packaging. |
Music Digital
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Music Digital has established itself as one of the UK’s most successful labels and spans a comprehensive range of artists and repertoire with regular new releases which continue to add value to the brand. Its extensive catalogue includes the popular ‘Absolutely’ range (3-CD sets from Bluegrass to Rockabilly), as well as original soundtracks, Celtic, Christmas and Country collections, Hits of the 60s, 70s and 80s, as well as the iconic Hooked On Classics, nostalgia, dub, strict-tempo dance, and many more musical styles. |
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Naïve
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This exquisite French label embraces a variety of musical styles including classical, film music, jazz and world artists. Performers and ensembles represented on the Naïve label include Sandrine Piau, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Il Giardino Armonico, Christophe Rousset, Laurence Equilbey and Accentus, Ensemble Matheus and the World Philharmonic Orchestra, to name but a few. Naïve Classique is also renowned for its exhaustive, pioneering Vivaldi Edition. Its Retrospective soundtrack range presents the best of French film music by Bruno Coulais (Les Choristes), Gabriel Yared (The English Patient) and Armand Amar (Earth From Above), while dynamic new compilations are devoted to music from Woodstock to contemporary rock and feature the likes of Radiohead and Santogold. Other exciting artists include Asian Dub Foundation, American reggae collective Groundation, and Trinidadian master of free-jazz funk, Anthony Joseph and the Spasm Band. |
Nascente
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Whether it’s the Beginner’s Guides 3-CD sets of Ska, Salsa, African or Cuban music, 2-CD artist compilations from Toumani Diabate, Khaled, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Los Van Van or Astor Piazzolla, the ‘Funk Experience’ range that showcases the funkiest music from 1970s Brazil, Cuba and the Caribbean, or the Bar Series that features the hippest contemporary grooves from cities such as Rio, Paris, Tokyo or Berlin, Nascente is undoubtedly the world leader in global grooves. |
Naxos
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The Gramophone Awards 2005 Label of the Year
More than 100 Editor’s Choices in Gramophone
More than 500 3-star ratings in The Penguin Guide
Naxos has revolutionised how classical music is presented and marketed around the world. Innovative strategies of recording exciting new repertoire with exceptional talent have enabled the label to develop one of the largest and fastest growing catalogues of unduplicated repertoire available anywhere - currently more than 3000 titles - with state-of-the-art sound and consumer-friendly prices. The Naxos catalogue includes the following outstanding ranges:
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Naxos AudioBooks
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Naxos AudioBooks was founded in 1994 with the purpose of providing classic literature with classical music on CD. NAB’s mission was to make the great classics accessible, beginning with the key works of Western literature: Homer, Dante, Milton, Austen, Dickens, Melville, Shakespeare and many others. The label quickly established a reputation for fine recordings by outstanding classical actors including Juliet Stevenson, Kenneth Branagh, Anton Lesser and many more, including experienced ‘radio’ voices including Neville Jason and David Timson who know how to create a magical world through storytelling. More recently, Naxos Audiobooks has attracted stars such as Ewan McGregor and David Tennant.
The label has become particularly well-known for a number of highly ambitious projects including Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past read by Neville Jason who also reads Tolstoy’s War and Peace unabridged, a major audiobook event; and David Timson has read The Complete Sherlock Holmes stories. More recently, NAB has broadened its attention to contemporary literary classics, with recordings of works by the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Julian Barnes, Rose Tremain, and Booker prizewinner Anne Enright.
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Naxos Blu-Ray Audio
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Naxos’ New Blu-ray Audio Series offers superior sound and other technical benefits. Each HIGH-DEFINITION AUDIO DISC has both stereo and suround versions of the programme at 24-bit 88.2/96kHz high resolution. Blu-ray discs can store 5 times more information on a single disc than a regular DVD. This means Blu-ray Audio can offer absolutely complete, lossless audio. With proper listening equipment, you will hear exactly what the producers and recording engineers intended. High resolution and surround versions are interchangeable by use of the coloured buttons on the Blu-ray remote. On-screen navigation options, or can be navigated by the Blu-ray remote. Texts and other visual material are available on-screen. Naxos will only offer original 24/96 or 24/88.2 recordings in the Blu-ray Audio format. Naxos will not offer up-sampled older digital or analogue recordings. A Blu-ray player is required to play Blu-ray Audio discs. Blu-ray Audio discs are incompatible with standard CD or DVD players.
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Naxos Educational
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Highly praised by Gramophone magazine, Naxos Educational is charting new territory. Using the wealth of Naxos recordings combined with approachable, absorbing narrative, Naxos Educational CDs aim to broaden understanding of musicians and their music. Series include Life & Works, Classics and Opera Explained, Opera Plus, A Life in Words & Music, Composer Portraits, History of Music, The Instruments of the Orchestra, Writers and Performers, Art & Music (a fascinating series spanning the 16th to 20th centuries), Listen Learn and Grow, and the A to Z of classical Music and Opera.
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Naxos Historical
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The Naxos Historical Collection comprises both legendary radio broadcasts and celebrated studio recordings of great performances by the most illustrious conductors, singers and instrumentalists of the 20th century, all remastered using the latest technology and painstaking care. Already released are many of the essential works of the operatic and orchestral repertoires, works by Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Sibelius, Wagner, and many others.
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Naxos Opera
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The world of opera comes alive in Naxos recordings, from Cavalli to Corghi, Sacchini to Szymanowski, in both studio and live recordings which feature international superstars such as Richard Bonynge or Sumi Jo as well as upcoming talents. Complete operas and highlight discs are available across the full range of musical periods and styles, presented by opera companies from around the world. |
Naxos SACD
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Naxos SACD is a multi-format hybrid mastered in direct-stream digital technology with the capability to reproduce the original recorded sounds at a high resolution rate. Naxos SACDs can be played on all existing SACD and CD players, although 5.1 multichannel surround reproduction will not be realised on CD player playback. |
Naxos Experience the Classics
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The world's most entertaining classical CD compilations are to be found in the Naxos Experience The Classics range. From The Best of British Light Music and National Anthems of the Commonwealth, through Classic Chill, Mystic Voices and The Flowering of Love, to Macabre Masterpieces, Extreme Classics (for musical ‘thrill-seekers!) and Opera’s Greatest Moments, there’s something for everyone in this innovative series of CDs tailor-made for Australian listeners of all ages and musical tastes.
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Netmark
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Netmark is the CD label of David Nettle and Richard Markham, Britain's foremost piano duo, who recently celebrated their 30th Anniversary season and continue to be one of the most satisfying and entertaining partnerships before the public today.
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Network Medien
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The painstaking care that goes into creating Network’s ambitious world music CDs has earned lavish praise in the international press. These recordings of the highest musical standards, mastered by one of the world’s leading studios, with authoritative, informative and highly readable booklets written by acknowledged experts in the field. Their current program comprises some 100 CDs, with feted artists including Rokia Traoré. Many international awards and prizes, including the prestigious IMC-UNESCO International Music Prize testify to the label’s success.
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Newton Classics
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In June 2010, Dutch label Newton Classics launched its series of landmark recordings made between 1950 and 2000, including PolyGram and Universal releases happily restored and available again after a long absence. Among the first titles to be released are Gérard Souzay in a classic collection of French song, the Labèque sisters in Gershwin, the Choir of King’s College Cambridge performing Tallis and Seiji Ozawa conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Dvořák. Theo Lap, the label’s founder, is an important industry figure whose pedigree stretches back to EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, Warner Classics and Harmonia Mundi. ‘Newton Classics is about rediscovering beloved recordings which might have been out of the CD catalogue for many years’, he says.
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Nightingale Classics
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Nightingale Classics presents complete operas, operettas, oratorios and opera highlights, as well as recital and orchestral classics, starring the internationally-renowned diva Edita Gruberova. |
Nimbus
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Nimbus Records boasts a substantial catalogue of premium quality classical, historical and world music titles. Its Grand Piano range includes highly praised recordings by the greatest pianists of all time. Prima Voce presents original recordings of the world’s greatest singers. Leading exponents of traditional music from around the world make Nimbus’s World Music range among the most fascinating available. Superb archival recordings of John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis and others feature on Nimbus’ jazz range. |
Michael Nyman Records
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The composer’s own label featuring the Michael Nyman Band, MN Records releases some of the most memorable, striking and instantly recognisable film music of our time, including “Composer’s Cut” editions of the soundtracks to Jane Campion’s The Piano and several Peter Greenaway films. The aim of the Composer’s Cut series is to present Nyman’s works “in a state of continuous evolution…enabling the music to realise its true potential”. The composer is also an accomplished photographer and the CD cover art features his own images. |
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Oboe Classics
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Recordings to celebrate the world of the oboe music from the Baroque to the Contemporary, Oboe Classics is the sister label to Clarinet Classics. In addition to profiling the artistry of today’s international soloists, Oboe Classics also releases historical recordings of interest. |
Obsidian
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Obsidian Records is a British boutique label devoted to music from the period c.1300-1750. Obsidian explores the previously unrecorded repertoire of major composers using new, unique scholarly editions. Artists include some of the finest in their field, from Britain´s leading new vocal consort, Alamire, to established groups such as Fretwork and soloists including Andrew Lawrence-King and Lynda Sayce. Obsidian CDs are beautifully packaged with cover images featuring magnificent artwork of the era. |
Oehms Classics
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Oehms is the brainchild of Dieter Oehms. After working for 35 years in the recording industry he created this independent label in 2003. It is the German label of the Australian conductor Simone Young and her Hamburg Philharmonic, who have recorded a landmark series of Bruckner symphonies in their original versions, and Wagner’s Die Walküre with Australian tenor Stuart Skelton. Other notable titles and artists include a charming operetta series with the Mörbisch Festival Orchestra, Pascal Rogé, and a series with James Levine documenting his time with the Munich Philharmonic. |
Ondine
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Part of Naxos’s collection of high-quality Scandinavian labels, Ondine has established itself as one of the most respected names in classical music, its products receiving numerous prizes at the Cannes (MIDEM) Classical Awards, the Gramophone Awards, the BBC Music Magazine Awards and the Classical Internet Awards. Ondine has released 400 carefully selected CDs, Hybrid SACDs and DVDs, with around 250 titles remaining in its active catalogue. Artists include legendary conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy and the renowned award-winning soprano Soile Isokoski. |
Opera Australia
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Outstanding productions available on Opera Australia’s own label include Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro (starring Teddy Tahu Rhodes), La Boheme (starring Ji-Min Park and Takesha Meshe Kizart), The Mikado, Lakme and La Traviata On Sydney Harbour (starring Emma Matthews), Rigoletto (starring Alan Opie) and Der Rosenkavalier (starring Cheryl Barker). In addition a number of classic productions starring the late Dame Joan Sutherland are also available, including Lakme, Lucia di Lammermoor, Lucrezia Borgia, Les Huguenots and Il Trovatore. |
Opera Rara
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Opera Rara has been in the business of bringing back forgotten operatic repertoire of the nineteenth century for the last thirty-five years. Operas once threatened with extinction have now been brought vividly back to life through Opera Rara recordings. Its catalogue includes complete operas as well as highlights and compilations, anthologies and recordings featuring outstanding soloists. |
Opus Arte DVD
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Opus Arte has a substantial catalogue of outstanding opera and ballet productions from around the world. Owned by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the label also works closely with organisations such as the BBC, Glyndebourne, Bayerische Rundfunk (Germany), TVE (Spain) and NPS (Holland), Teatro Real (Madrid), Liceu (Barcelona), Opera de Paris, and Het Muziektheater (Amsterdam). Magnificent productions captured on DVD include several by the Paris Opera Ballet and Royal Opera House, with a selection now screening nationally in Palace Cinema’s World Opera and Ballet series. |
Orange Street
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Introducing Orange Street, a label dedicated to promoting the best of authentic reggae music. Sensibly priced and featuring quality packaging and full background sleeve notes, this series will appeal to hardened reggae fans and new listeners wishing to discover the joys of reggae through legendary artists including Horace Andy (Massive Attack), Dennis Brown and Lee Perry.
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Orchid Classics
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Orchid Classics produces artist-focused recordings of the highest quality and artistic interest, and has received superlative reviews in major publications from music magazines to broadsheets. From the three volumes of The Golden Age of Hollywood featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to Ralph Fiennes Reading Kipling, there are many treasures to be found here. |
Orfeo
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The German label Orfeo boasts an enormous catalogue of chamber music, choral works, opera, recitals and symphonic repertoire featuring great performances by leading soloists, string quartets, orchestras, the Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Vienna State Opera, as well as productions from the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals. |
OUR Recordings
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OUR Recordings is the label of world-famous recorder player Michala Petri and guitarist Lars Hannibal. From virtuoso Baroque concertos to the fascinating East Meets West albums, 19th-century Viennese café music to Latin American music for recorder and guitar, OUR Recordings offers critically acclaimed releases with wide appeal. |
Oxford Philomusica
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Oxford’s professional symphony orchestra’s own label includes an outstanding recording of Haydn’s Creation with New College Choir, which was the CD of the Month in BBC Music Magazine, and CDs of music by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Stravinsky. |
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Pan Classics
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Pan Classics is a delightful Swiss label that highlights connoisseur repertoire and Swiss musicians and ensembles. The catalogue also includes many international artists and ensembles of note, such as the Amphion Wind Ensemble, Vienna String Sextet, Isabelle Faust, Roland Pontinen and Edoardo Torbianelli, just to name a few. Beautifully packaged, Pan Classics CDs are collector's items in their own right. |
Parma Recordings
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Parma Recordings offers listeners a fresh taste of today's leading innovators in orchestral, chamber, instrumental, and experimental music as well as prime pieces of classic repertoire on its Navona label. Its contemporary classical label imprint Ravello Records highlights forward-thinking composers and musicians from around the world. |
Paradizo
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The Paradizo label was created by Skip Sempé after fifteen years of recording for three major labels, many of which were distinguished with dozens of international awards. Paradizo features Skip Sempé’s new recordings as solo harpsichordist, chamber musician and director of the ensembles which he founded: Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and the newly created Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons. Paradizo also presents recordings with Julien Martin and Josh Cheatham. |
Pegasus Entertainment
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Pegasus offers an unparalleled range of CDs - including the popular Ambient Heaven (relaxation), Strictly (dance), Café (world grooves), Kootie Bear (children’s), Classical Composer and Heroes Collection (popular performers) ranges - as well as DVDs - including documentary/ special interest (trains, planes, history, warfare, wildlife, sport), comedy, crime, and much, much more. |
Penguin Café
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Pegasus offers an unparalleled range of CDs - including the popular Ambient Heaven (relaxation), Strictly (dance), Café (world grooves), Kootie Bear (children’s), Classical Composer and Heroes Collection (popular performers) ranges - as well as DVDs - including documentary/ special interest (trains, planes, history, warfare, wildlife, sport), comedy, crime, and much, much more. |
PentaTone
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PentaTone’s classical catalogue of new recordings includes the most famous classical works performed by top artists. All PentaTone recordings are multichannel (surround sound) recordings and they are all released on hybrid SACDs (which can also be played on traditional CD equipment in stereo). PentaTone also releases (under licence from Universal) stunning surround sound recordings from the 1970s originally made by Philips for the 'quadrophonic system' that have never before been released and now can be enjoyed in all their sonic splendour for the first time. Artists include Julia Fischer, the Beaux Arts Trio, and recent signing Arabella Steinbacher. |
Performance
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Performance is a premiere budget label for double albums. Content, innovative design and deluxe slim line packaging have helped to establish it as a new favourite with UK and worldwide audio buyers. Artists range widely from art Blakely to The Sex Pistols. |
Phoenix
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Phoenix Edition features artists such as sopranos Arleen Auger and Simone Kermes, bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra conducted by Michi Gaigg, WDR Radio Choir and Orchestra Cologne conducted by Helmuth Froschauer, Kontraste Koln, Das Neue Orchester conducted by Christoph Spering, the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt, Vienna Symphony Orchestra and many other leading performers from Europe. |
Pinchgut Opera
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Pinchgut Opera is an enterprising organisation that presents chamber operas from the Baroque and Classical eras and now has its own label. Releases to date include live recordings of its critically acclaimed 2010 production of Haydn's L'anima del filosofo: Orpheous & Eurydice and its 2011 production of Vivaldi's Griselda. |
Plus Loin
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This stylish high-end jazz label, based in France, is recognised internationally for its awards and visionary artists, a kindred spirit of ECM for its beautiful packaging, sound design and sense of adventure. Artists include Elizabeth Kontomanou and French jazz pianist Martial Solal.
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Praga Digital
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Praga Digitals feature leading Czech artists and ensembles performing great classical music from Beethoven to Berg, Brahms to Zemlinsky. |
Profil Medien
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Founded by Gunter Haenssler, Profil Medien presents an ever-growing catalogue of fine recordings, from historical performances by the Berlin Philharmonic or Rudolf Buchbinder to more recent releases featuring leading artists of today such as Semyon Bychkov or Pinchas Zukerman. |
Proprius
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Quality in every aspect has been the hallmark of Proprius for over 30 years. The wide range of genres represented include ballads, Christmas music, classical music, popular entertainment, jazz, klezmer, opera/operetta, as well as music for brass, cello, choir, flute, guitar, harpsichord, organ, piano, string quartet, violin and vocal soloists. |
Purely
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Purely is a range that showcases the ‘best of the best’ in nostalgic releases. Whether it’s Purely Bluegrass or Purely Rockabilly, Purely Chuck Berry or Purely Maria Callas, Purely Irish Folk or Purely Hits of the 70s, Purely 2-CD sets offer music by great artists at a great price. All original recordings are digitally remastered. |
Putumayo
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Putumayo World Music was established to introduce people to the music of the world's cultures. In the past fifteen years, the label has become known primarily for its upbeat and melodic compilations of great international music characterized by the company's motto: “guaranteed to make you feel good!” The Putumayo Kids division was created to introduce children to other cultures through fun, upbeat world music. Since the release of the best-selling World Playground CD in 1999, Putumayo Kids has established itself as one of the leading children’s record labels in the world.
Putumayo’s CD covers feature the distinctive art of Nicola Heindl, whose colorful, folkloric style represents one of Putumayo's goals: to connect the traditional to the contemporary. By combining appealing music and instantly recognisable artwork with creative marketing, Putumayo has developed a unique brand identity.
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Quartz
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Quartz is a boutique label with an exciting catalogue for the discerning music lover - from Malcolm Arnold’s irrepressible music for The Three Musketeers ballet, though the great classics to contemporary music, performed by leading and emerging artists including young star cellist Jamie Walton. |
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Radio France
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Radio France's Ocora label offers a selection of recordings – a musical experience unique the world over – featuring the best in traditional music ranging from Mongolia to Sweden. The albums of art, religious, folk and popular music all display the hallmark of authenticity and quality engineering.
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Raumklang
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Raumklang recordings have received numerous prestigious awards such as the Diapason 5 and the Midem Classical Award. Its catalogue focuses on early music, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque with excursions into the Classical and Romantic, and features soprano Julia Banse, Amarcord vocal ensemble, Dresden Chamber Choir, Sequentia and other leading European artists and ensembles. |
RCOC
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The Royal Chamber Opera Company of Barcelona’s own label presents marvellous recordings of rarely-heard Baroque and Classical era operas by Manzoni, Porpora, Soler and Terradellas. These are produced in association with its busy schedule of live performances and capture the spirit of a lost age of theatricality. |
RCO Live
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RCO Live is the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s own in-house label, under which it produces CD, SACD and DVD releases of live concerts given at the Concertgebouw under the direction of Mariss Jansons and leading guest conductors. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has built up a vast catalogue of recordings, began in the 1920s under Willem Mengelberg and continues to its latest recordings under Jansons, most recently a critically acclaimed Strauss disc of Don Juan and the Alpine Symphony. |
Reactive
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Reactive reissues classic German rock, including Tangerine Dream’s influential albums and otherwise hard-to-get releases from Armageddon, Brainticket, Deuter, Murphy Blend, Out Of Focus and Schicke, Fuhrs & Frohling. |
Real Gone Music
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Real Gone Music is a music company dedicated to preserving the sounds of the eras past, unique genres forgotten, and superstar acts or the most overlooked artists. Combining big-name artists with esoteric cult favourites, Real Gone Music is a label of the people, by the people, for the people. |
Red Priest
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Red Priest is the only early music group in the world to have been compared in the press to the Rolling Stones, Jackson Pollock, the Marx Brothers, Spike Jones and the Cirque du Soleil. This extraordinary acoustic foursome has been described by music critics as ‘visionary and heretical’, ‘wholly irreverent and highly enlightened’, with a ‘red-hot wicked sense of humour’ and a ‘ break-all-rules, rock-chamber concert approach to early music.’ Founded in 1997, and named after the flame-haired priest, Antonio Vivaldi, Red Priest has four exciting releases on its own label to date. |
Redbush Comedy
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Looking for laughs? Redbush’s catalogue features a line-up of some of the UK’s best comedians from the past and present, including Ricky Gervais, Tommy Cooper, Bernard Manning, Julie Walters, Ed Byrne, Micky Flanagan, Omid Kjalili, the late Patrick Moore and many others. |
Retrospective
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The Retrospective label is a new venture from Ray Crick, the mastermind behind the world-famous Living Era label.
Living Era was for many years the world’s leading Nostalgia label and its demise in 2007 at the hands of Universal Music was a serious loss to fans of vintage popular music. Happily, Ray Crick’s Retrospective label is here to fill that void! Titles include 2-CD sets by George Formby, Fred Astaire, Humphrey Lyttelon, Nat King Cole, Paul Robeson and Tony Martin, and single CDs by Andre Previn, Eartha Kitt, Louis Armstrong and Sammy Davis Jr. All Retrospective releases feature the best possible restored sound and are packaged with a fresh new look that will, nevertheless, bring back happy memories of the much-loved Living Era covers!
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River Productions
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The UK independent label River Productions offers an interesting range of CDs, from Jane Austen’s Music to Wartime Christmas, with a focus on British music. You’ll also find unique items such asThe Best Spy Film and TV Themes, and The Victoria and Albert Art Deco Music Collection. |
Rondeau
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Rondeau presents the highest quality choral music performed by St. Thomas’s Leipzig (Bach’s ‘original’ choir), Knabenchor Hannover, and Windsbacher Knabenchor, with leading soloists and orchestras including Christine Schafer and Thomas Quasthoff. Organ music is also featured on this label. From Bach to Bruckner, Reger to Rutter, Homilius to Holst, and many other composers, there is much to enjoy on these beautiful recordings. |
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Saphir Productions
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Specialising in Frech classical music, particularly chamber music, Saphir Productions releases recordings by renowned artists such as Emile Naoumoff, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Marielle Nordmann, Patrick Gallois, Bruno Rigutto and Gérard Poulet. |
Salvo
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Salvo is a collector’s label focusing on classic album reissues (re-mastered of course!), unique compilations and definitive artist and label box sets, which appeal to the knowledgeable music fan and the serious collector alike. Each title is lovingly packaged, expertly researched, compiled and annotated and features rare or unreleased tracks, top class artwork and photography and superb sound quality. Artists include Madness, Propaganda, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Move, Slade and more.
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SDG
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J S Bach appended the initials SDG (Soli Deo Gloria, meaning ‘to the Glory of God alone’) at the end of each of his Cantatas scores. These same initials identify the label of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra’s recordings made during the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and conducted by the incomparable Sir John Eliot Gardiner. SDG will release 51 CDs in this collection, each corresponding to one of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage’s concerts and bringing together for the first time the complete cantatas Bach wrote for specific liturgical feasts. In 2008, SDG launched a critically acclaimed symphonic/choral series called ‘Brahms and his Contemporaries’. |
Seventh Art
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Classic film enthusiasts will find The Seventh Art a worthwhile visit. Offering a wide selection of DVDs & Blu Rays across a diverse range of film genres: foreign, cult, classics, film noir, sci-fi, drama, horror, special interest, documentaries, and those hard-to-find titles. |
Siba Records
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Siba Records is Sibelius Academy's own record label. Its recordings reflect the Academy's artistic profile to its fullest extent. The multichannel quality of all Siba SACD Records guarantees a high quality sound experience. |
Signum Classics
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Signum Records is fuelled by the passion to produce great music recorded with integrity and creativity at the highest level. Founded in 1997, Signum now boasts a catalogue of nearly 150 titles, many of which are award winners, nominees or five-star review recipients from around the world. The primarily British artist roster includes Sarah Connolly, Evelyn Glennie, The King’s Singers, Stephen Cleobury and Susan Gritton. |
Simax Classics
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Simax Classics presents classical repertoire with the aim of giving listeners the highest quality recordings of the finest performances. The label has been inspired by the activity and quality of Norwegian musicians. |
Simply
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Simply represents fantastic value, offering a great choice of music, in deluxe packaging with informative liner notes. The Simply boxes combine big-name artists and lifestyle concepts with contemporary packaging to produce a winning series appealing to all musical tastes. |
Soho Collection
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Soho presents nostalgic music with superb sound quality, extensive sleeve notes and outstanding artwork, establishing the series as the pre-eminent label of its kind. Bestsellers include The Golden Years Of Nat King Cole, The Magical Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber and The Golden Years Of Frank Sinatra. |
Solo Musica
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The German label Solo Musica works closely at all stages with the outstanding musicians, both composers and performers, featured on its recordings. Traditional and unconventional classical music finds a home on this boutique label. Its artists include Markus Becker, Julius Berger, Casal Quartet, Diana Damrau, Friedemann Eichhorn, Gewandhaus Quartet, Peter Horton, Kalandos Ensemble, Hansjörg Schellenberger and many more. |
Steinway & Sons
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Steinway & Sons recordings are impeccably produced and engineered, feature pianists who are part of the 157-year-old company’s Concert & Artists program. |
Stone Records
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Stone Records was formed in 2008 to produce high quality classical CDs with a broad appeal. In a short space of time the label has received critical acclaim for its initial releases and embarked upon a number of ambitious and successful projects. With many further discs already in the pipeline, we are looking forward to making more interesting and inspiring music in the future. |
Storyville Records
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Storyville Records is one of the world’s greatest jazz record labels and the oldest independent jazz label in Europe. Named after the notorious New Orleans district where jazz was born, the label includes recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ben Webster, Duke Ellington, Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis and Benny Carter, and was also instrumental in launching the career of some of the most influential Danish jazz artists including Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Fessor's Big City Band and the legendary Papa Bues Viking Jazz Band. |
Supraphon
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Supraphon Music Publishing is a renowned Czech label, and has played a significant role in spreading the fame of Czech classical music recordings since the 1930s. Supraphon’s broad catalogue of titles systematically mapped out the works of Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and Leos Janáček, as well as other giants of both Czech and international music. Important domestic and foreign soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestras and conductors all contribute to its remarkable collection of recordings. |
Swedish Society
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A label devoted to Swedish music and performers, which also explores the wider repertoire. |
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Tafelmusik Media
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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir’s own label is an international initiative that presents thrilling performances by the world-renowned ensemble. In addition to highly praised recordings of music by Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mendelssohn and Rameau, The Galileo Project CD/DVD Set is an unforgettable exploration of the fusion of the arts, science and culture in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
Tahra
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Tahra is a boutique classical music company based in rural France with a catalogue of more than 150 titles featuring remastered recordings from 78rpms and radio broadcasts, some up to 60 years old. These have won several prestigious classical music industry awards, for the quality of their sound as much as the performances themselves. Artists include legendary figures such as Celibidache, Furtwängler, Gieseking, Jochum, Kleiber, Knappertbusch, Mengelberg, Mitropoulos, van Kempen, Schuricht, Stokowski, Walter, and others – often in outstanding performances otherwise unissued on CD. |
Talking Elephant
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Talking Elephant’s main focus is on new releases and reissues of English folk and rock artists, including The Albion Band, Amazing Blondel, Ashley Hutchings, Cyril Tawney, Fairport Convention, Gryphon, Marc Ellington, Rainbow Chasers and Wishbone Ash. |
TDK Classical DVD
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Concerts, ballet and opera performances and documentaries from around the world in state-of-the-art audio and video quality. |
Teatro Real
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Madrid’s famous Teatro Real (Royal Theatre) presents a selection of its acclaimed ballet and opera productions on its own label. Release to date include Blood Wedding, Carmen, Don Giovanni and Fuenteovejuna. |
Telarc
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Although Telarc began as a classical-only recording company, it now boasts a catalogue of more than 800 recordings that range from classical, classical-crossover, jazz, contemporary jazz, blues and country. Since 1980, Telarc has been honoured with 40 Grammy Awards for performance, production and engineering, as well as Label Of The Year from Gramophone, the French Grand Prix du Disque and Diapason d’Or, Japan’s Record Of The Year, and Germany’s Audiophile CD Of The Year. |
Testament
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The Testament label issues classic recordings under licence from industry giants BBC Worldwide, BMG Classics, Deutschland Radio, EMI, Decca and Universal Music. Artists range from The Amadeus Quartet, Sir John Barbirolli, André Cluytens and Beniamino Gigli, through Rudolph Kempe, David Munrow, Quartetto Italiano and Solomon, to Toscanini, Thyssens-Velentin and Günter Wand. Solo recitals, chamber music, opera and orchestral performances are all well represented. |
Tonight Show
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Blues, Chillout, Dance, Jazz, Latin, Lounge, Nostalgia and Rock classics are all to be found on Tonight Show’s 2-CD releases, which feature great names from America, The Animals and Louis Armstrong to the Beach Boys, Cher, Dire Straits, The Supremes and Barry White, to name only a few. |
Tony Palmer Films
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From Puccini to Pink Floyd, from ballet to The Beatles, Tony Palmer is an icon of music documentaries and film-making. Over the decades he has chronicled a broad spectrum of music and the arts of his time, spanning rock (All You Need Is Love), opera (Maria Callas, The Salzburg Festival) great actors (Peter Sellers, Michael Crawford) and ballet (Margot Fonteyn). Palmer continues to make high-quality music documentaries today. |
Train Pictures
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Train Pictures presents special interest DVDs on all manner of subjects relating to rail and transport from all over the world. Ideal for enthusiasts, modellers and a great introduction to the world of rail transport for kids, Train Pictures documentaries are informative and often feature ‘driver’s eye view’ footage. |
Two Pianists
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TwoPianists Records is an independent music company based in South Africa that provides its artists with recording and other services. Every project is an individual adventure and artistic journey, and quality of its CDs is recognised globally. |
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Wienerworld
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Wienerworld is the UK’s leading independent DVD and CD publisher and distributor. Its catalogue mainly features music repertoire but also specialises in niche audio-visual content, available on DVD, Blu Ray, CD and vinyl. Their ever-growing catalogue now includes film, documentaries, theatrical performances and more with over 500 titles. The roster of music DVD artists includes Elvis, Rod Steward, Elaine Paige, Iggy Pop, 10CC, The Specials and The Damned just to name a few, whilst on the audio side of their catalogue, you can find artists such as Nils Lofgren, Muddy Waters and The Dwarves. |
Wigmore Hall Live
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London’s Wigmore Hall, perhaps the world’s most renowned venue for chamber and vocal recitals, has launched a new label featuring internationally renowned artists, including Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau, Arditti Quartet, Joyce DiDonato and Julius Drake, Kopelman Quartet, Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson, and The Nash Ensemble. These live concerts are superbly recorded and presented on CD and are quickly building a very strong reputation. |
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X5 Music Group
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The Swedish label X5 Music Group offers titles ranging from Classical Chillout, Meditation and Yoga and Most Essential Classical Baby to The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music, The Greatest Video Game Music (played by the London Symphony Orchestra) and Top Ten Opera Classics. |
Xtra
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The Xtra label has received critical acclaim for its great selection of releases and has developed into a bestselling brand with excellent content, maximum playing times, innovative design and deluxe outer slipcase packaging which have made it a favourite with audio buyers across the world. Xtra offers the discerning country music, easy listening, nostalgia and rock ‘n’ roll fans. |
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Ysaÿe Records
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Few string quartets start up a new recording company. However, France’s Ysaÿe Quartet did just that to provide the public with a living discography that corresponds to their work and artistic development. In addition to their own critically acclaimed performances of quartet repertoire by Beethoven, Fauré, Haydn, Mozart and Schumann, the Ysaÿe’s mid-price series Nascor introduces young artists such as pianist Alberto Nosè and the Amedeo Modigliani Quartet. |
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