Labels of Canned Classical Music

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Labels of Canned Classical Music

• Speaker Marc

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Why Canned Music?

• Though not live, but real enough
• One-time cost
• Easy to access
• Long-term preservation

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Universal Classics Group

• Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft
• Philips
• Decca Records

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Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft

• Founded in Hanover
• Since December 1898
• Long been known for its high standards of audio
  fidelity
• Nowadays Pillars of the label
• Bryn Terfel
• Lang Lang
• Yundi Li
• Hilary Hahn

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Philips Classics

• Started in the eighties
• Record label of Dutch electronics giant Philips
• The label is was merged by parent Universal Music
  into Decca Records
• Nowadays Pillars of the label
• Valery Gergiev
• Alfred Brendel

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Decca Records

• Became major classical label in the 40s.
• A leading label for both classical music and
  Broadway scores
• Now making comparatively few major classical
  recordings
• The Solti Ring was voted best recording of all
  time by readers of the influential magazine The
  Gramophone

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Warner Classics

• Erato Records
• founded in 1953 to promote French classical music
  
• became part of Warner in 1992
• Teldec
• Apex
• offer outstanding value of money

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Sony BMG Music Entertainment

• Sony Classical Records
• BMG Classics
• RCA
• Arte Nova
• Melodiya

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Sony Classical

• Started in 1927 as Masterworks Records
• Acquired by Sony in 1990 and renamed
• Nowadays Pillars of the label
• Yo-Yo Ma
• John Williams
• Joshua Bell

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BMG Classics

• RCA
• the best-known classical label in the early years
  of the 20th century
• Arte Nova
• makes classical music available at bargain prices
  
• Melodiya
• the Russian label

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EMI Classics

• Formed in 1990 in order to reduce the need to
  create country-specific packaging and catalogs
  for internationally distributed classical music
  releases
• Celebrated its Centenary in 1997
• Nowadays Pillars of the label
• Maxim Vengerov
• Simon Rattle

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Independent Labels

• BIS
• Brilliant Classics
• Chandos
• Harmonia Mundi
• Hyperion
• Supraphon
• Telarc