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EMI Classics is a record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 of EMI
EMI

The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
, formed in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed classical music releases.

Classical recordings were formerly simultaneously released under combinations of Angel
Angel Records

Angel Records is a record label belonging to EMI. It was formed in 1953 and specialised in european classical music, but included an occasional operetta or Broadway score....
, Seraphim
Seraphim Records

Seraphim Records is a sister record label of Angel Records....
, Odeon
Odeon Records

Odeon Records was a record label founded by Max Strauss and Heinrich Zunz in Berlin, Germany. It was named after a famous theatre in Paris, whose classical dome appears on the Odeon record label....
, Columbia
Columbia Graphophone Company

The Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom....
, HMV
HMV

His Master's Voice is a famous trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up phonograph....
, and other labels, in part because competitors own these names in various countries.






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EMI Classics
Parent company EMI
EMI

The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
Founded 1990
President Eric Dingman
Vice Presidents A&R Stephen Johns (EMI Classics)
Alain Lanceron (Virgin Classics)
Distributed labels EMI Classics
Virgin Classics
Classics for Pleasure (UK)
Angel Records
Angel Records

Angel Records is a record label belonging to EMI. It was formed in 1953 and specialised in european classical music, but included an occasional operetta or Broadway score....

Blue Note Label Group (USA)
Genre(s) Classical Music
Country UK
Websites
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EMI Classics is a record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 of EMI
EMI

The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
, formed in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed classical music releases.

Classical recordings were formerly simultaneously released under combinations of Angel
Angel Records

Angel Records is a record label belonging to EMI. It was formed in 1953 and specialised in european classical music, but included an occasional operetta or Broadway score....
, Seraphim
Seraphim Records

Seraphim Records is a sister record label of Angel Records....
, Odeon
Odeon Records

Odeon Records was a record label founded by Max Strauss and Heinrich Zunz in Berlin, Germany. It was named after a famous theatre in Paris, whose classical dome appears on the Odeon record label....
, Columbia
Columbia Graphophone Company

The Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom....
, HMV
HMV

His Master's Voice is a famous trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up phonograph....
, and other labels, in part because competitors own these names in various countries. These have been moved under the EMI Classics umbrella to avoid the trademark
TradeMark

TradeMark is a tall, primarily residential, skyscraper in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was completed in 2007 and has 28 floors. There are 200 hundred residential units....
 problems. Releases created for distribution in specific countries are still distributed under the historical names, except for Columbia as EMI sold the Columbia name to Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation of America, being one of the World music market. According to Variety, on October 2, 2008, Sony had completed the acquisition of Bertelsmann's 50% stake in the Sony BMG joint venture, and Sony BMG was renamed Sony Music Entertainment....
. The red logo harkens back to the Red Seal releases, introduced by EMI predecessor the Gramophone Company
Gramophone Company

The Gramophone Company, based in the United Kingdom, was one of the early record company, and was the parent organization for the famous "His Master's Voice" label....
 in 1902. So HMV classical releases had red labels.

EMI Classics also incorporates the Virgin Classics label.

Artists


Composers

  • Thomas Adès
    Thomas Adès

    Thomas Ad?s is a United Kingdom composer, pianist and conducting.Ad?s studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later musical composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London....
  • Craig Armstrong
  • Howard Goodall
    Howard Goodall

    Howard Goodall is a United Kingdom composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. He also presents music-based programming for television and radio....
  • Karl Jenkins
    Karl Jenkins

    Karl William Jenkins Order of the British Empire D.Mus. is a Wales musician and composer. Jenkins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list for 2005....
  • Jon Lord
    Jon Lord

    Jon Douglas Lord is an English composer, Hammond organ and piano player.Lord is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms....
  • Sir Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  • Zbigniew Preisner
    Zbigniew Preisner

    Zbigniew Preisner is one of Poland's leading film score composers, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieslowski.Life...


Conductors

  • Claudio Abbado
    Claudio Abbado

    Claudio Abbado, Italian orders of merit , is an Italy Conducting. He has held many of the most prestigious positions in the world of classical music, having served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music di...
  • Sir John Barbirolli
    John Barbirolli

    Sir John Giovanni Battista Barbirolli, Order of the Companions of Honour , was a United Kingdom conducting and cello. Barbirolli was particularly associated with The Hall?, Manchester, which he conducted for nearly three decades....
  • Daniel Barenboim
    Daniel Barenboim

    Daniel Barenboim is a renowned piano and conducting. He lives in Berlin and holds citizenship in Argentina, Israel, Spain, and the Palestinian Authority....
  • Sir Thomas Beecham
    Thomas Beecham

    Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, Order of the Companions of Honour was a British people Conducting and impresario. From the early twentieth century until his death, Beecham was a major influence on the musical life of Britain and, according to Neville Cardus, was the first British conductor to have a regular international career....
  • Sir Adrian Boult
    Adrian Boult

    Sir Adrian Cedric Boult Order of the Companions of Honour was an English Conducting....
  • William Christie
  • Alan Curtis
    Alan Curtis

    Alan Curtis may refer to:* Alan Curtis * Alan Curtis , English actor and announcer* Alan Curtis * Alan Curtis * Alan Curtis ...
  • Lawrence Foster
    Lawrence Foster

    Lawrence Foster is an United States conductor .He became the conductor of the San Francisco Ballet at the age of 18, and served as Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta....
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler
    Wilhelm Furtwängler

    Wilhelm Furtw?ngler was a German Conducting and composer....
  • Carlo Maria Giulini
    Carlo Maria Giulini

    Carlo Maria Giulini was an Italy conducting, and viola....
  • Emmanuelle Haïm
    Emmanuelle Haïm

    Emmanuelle Ha?m is a France harpsichordist and conductor. . She has a particular interest in early music and Baroque music. She trained at the Conservatoire Sup?rieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris....
  • Bernard Haitink
    Bernard Haitink

    Bernard Johan Herman Haitink Order of the Companions of Honour Order of the British Empire is a Netherlands conducting and violinist....
  • Vernon Handley
    Vernon Handley

    Vernon George "Tod" Handley CBE was a United Kingdom conductor . He was born of Wales parents into a musical family in London Borough of Enfield, London....
  • Daniel Harding
    Daniel Harding

    Daniel Harding is a British Conducting. He is a prot?g? of Simon Rattle and of Claudio Abbado. Harding studied trumpet at Chetham's School of Music and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra at age 13.....
  • Richard Hickox
    Richard Hickox

    Richard Sidney Hickox Order of the British Empire was an England conducting of choir, orchestral and operatic music....
  • Mariss Jansons
    Mariss Jansons

    Mariss Jansons is a Latvian conducting, the son of conductor Arvid Jansons. His mother, the singer Iraida Jansons, who was Jewish, gave birth to him in hiding in Riga, Latvia, after her father and brother were killed in the Riga ghetto....
  • Paavo Järvi
    Paavo Järvi

    Paavo J?rvi is an Estonian-American conductor .J?rvi was born in Tallinn, Estonia, to conductor Neeme J?rvi and Liilia J?rvi. His siblings, Kristjan J?rvi and Maarika J?rvi, are also musicians....
  • Herbert von Karajan
    Herbert von Karajan

    Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conducting, one of the most renowned 20th-century conductors. His obituary in The New York Times described him as "probably the world's best-known conductor and one of the most powerful figures in classical music." Karajan conducted the Berlin Philharmonic for thirty-five years....
  • Rudolf Kempe
    Rudolf Kempe

    Rudolf Kempe was a Germany conducting....
  • Otto Klemperer
    Otto Klemperer

    Otto Klemperer was a German-born Conducting and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century....
  • John Lanchbery
    John Lanchbery

    John Lanchbery OBE was an English composer and Conductor , famous for his ballet arrangements....
  • Sir Charles Mackerras
    Charles Mackerras

    Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, Order of Australia, Companion of Honour, Order of the British Empire is an Australian conducting. He is a noted authority on the operas of Jan?cek and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan....
  • Sir Neville Marriner
    Neville Marriner

    Sir Neville Marriner is an English conducting and violinist.Marriner was born in Lincoln, England and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire....
  • Jean Martinon
    Jean Martinon

    Jean Martinon was a France conducting and composer....
  • Kurt Masur
    Kurt Masur

    Kurt Masur is a Germany conducting, particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music....
  • Ingo Metzmacher
    Ingo Metzmacher

    Ingo Metzmacher is a Germany conducting. He is the son of the cellist Rudolf Metzmacher. His musical education in piano, music theory and conducting was in Hanover, Salzburg and Cologne....
  • Riccardo Muti
    Riccardo Muti

    Riccardo Muti, Italian orders of merit is an Italian conducting. He is the Music Director Designate of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will officially start his contract in 2010....
  • Sir Roger Norrington
    Roger Norrington

    Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington, Order of the British Empire is a British conducting. He is the son of Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington and the brother of Humphrey Thomas Norrington....
  • Antonio Pappano
    Antonio Pappano

    Antonio Pappano is a United Kingdom conducting and pianist of Italian parentage currently serving as music director at the Royal Opera House in London, and l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome....
  • André Previn
    André Previn

    Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
  • Sir John Pritchard
    John Pritchard

    Sir John Michael Pritchard Order of the British Empire was a England conductor. He was known for his interpretations of Mozart operas and for his support of contemporary music....
  • Sir Simon Rattle
    Simon Rattle

    Sir Simon Denis Rattle, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts, is an England Conducting. He rose to prominence as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and is currently principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic ....
  • Jérémie Rhorer
  • Wolfgang Sawallisch
    Wolfgang Sawallisch

    Wolfgang Sawallisch is a Germany conducting and pianist....
  • Jeffrey Tate
    Jeffrey Tate

    Dr Jeffrey Tate CBE is an England conducting. He was born with spina bifida, and also has kyphosis. His family moved to Farnham, Surrey when he was young and he attended Farnham Grammar School between 1954 and 1961 gaining a State Scholarship to Cambridge University, where he directed theatre productions....
  • Franz Welser-Möst
    Franz Welser-Möst

    Franz Welser-M?st is an Austrian conducting....
  • Sir David Willcocks


Chamber Ensembles

  • Ahn Trio
    Ahn Trio

    The Ahn Trio are three Korean American sisters who make up a european classical music piano trio. Their names are Angella , Lucia and Maria . Lucia and Maria are twins....
  • L’Arpeggiata
  • Artemis Quartet
  • Alban Berg Quartett
  • Belcea Quartet
    Belcea Quartet

    The Belcea Quartet is a string quartet, formed in 1994, under the leadership of violinist Corina Belcea....
  • Eroica Trio
    Eroica Trio

    The Eroica Trio is an American piano trio consisting of Erika Nickrenz, piano; Susie Park, violin; and Sara Sant'Ambrogio, cello. Park joined the trio in September 2006 ....
  • Quatuor Ebène


Choirs and Vocal Ensembles

  • Cantorion
  • Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
  • Choir of King's College, Cambridge
    Choir of King's College, Cambridge

    The world-famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge is one of today's most accomplished and renowned representatives of the great British choral tradition....
  • Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
  • John Alldis Choir
  • The King's Singers
  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
  • Rundfunkchor Berlin
  • Westminster Abbey Choir
  • Winchester Cathedral Choir


Orchestras

  • Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
    Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

    The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is an England chamber music orchestra.The group was founded in London by Sir Neville Marriner, attracting some of the most accomplished players in London, many of whom considered themselves to be refugees from conductors....
  • Les Arts Florissants
    Les Arts Florissants

    Les Arts Florissants can refer to two different, but related things:*Les Arts florissants , the name of a vocal piece by Marc-Antoine Charpentier....
  • Berliner Philharmoniker
  • Le Cercle de l’Harmonie
  • Il Complesso Barocco
  • Le Concert d’Astrée
  • Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
  • English Chamber Orchestra
    English Chamber Orchestra

    The English Chamber Orchestra is a chamber orchestra based in London. The full orchestra regularly plays concerts at Cadogan Hall, and the ECO Ensemble performs at Wigmore Hall....
  • Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra is the leading orchestra in Estonia and is based in the capital Tallinn. Founded as the Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, it gave its first concert in a broadcast by Tallinn Radio on December 18, 1926....
  • Europa Galante
    Europa Galante

    Europa Galante is an Italy period instrument baroque orchestra founded by violinist Fabio Biondi in 1990 and directed by him since that time.The ensemble has been invited to play at important festivals and concert halls and has performed at La Scala in Milan, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Concertgebo...
  • Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    The London Philharmonic Orchestra , based in London, is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom, and is based in the Royal Festival Hall....
  • London Symphony Orchestra
    London Symphony Orchestra

    The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Arts Centre....
  • Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo
  • Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"....


Instrumentalists


Piano

  • Leif Ove Andsnes
    Leif Ove Andsnes

    Leif Ove Andsnes is a Norway pianist. He studied with Jir? Hlinka at the Grieg Academy of Music in Bergen. He is an ardent champion of the works of Edvard Grieg....
  • Piotr Anderszewski
    Piotr Anderszewski

    File:FolleJourn?e2009 PiotrAnderszewski.jpgPiotr Anderszewski is a Poland-Hungarian pianist....
  • Martha Argerich
    Martha Argerich

    Martha Argerich is an Argentina concert pianist. Her aversion to the press and publicity has resulted in her remaining out of the limelight for most of her career....
  • Daniel Barenboim
    Daniel Barenboim

    Daniel Barenboim is a renowned piano and conducting. He lives in Berlin and holds citizenship in Argentina, Israel, Spain, and the Palestinian Authority....
  • Jonathan Biss
    Jonathan Biss

    Jonathan Biss is an USA classical pianist.Biss represents the third generation in a family of professional musicians, which includes his grandmother Raya Garbousova , as well as his parents, the Israeli-born violinist Miriam Fried and the violist Paul Biss....
  • Yuri Egorov
  • Ingrid Fliter
    Ingrid Fliter

    Ingrid Fliter is an Argentinian pianist. She began her formal piano studies with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut at the Teatro Col?n at age 16....
  • David Fray
    David Fray

    David Fray is a France Classical music pianist.References External links...
  • Evgeny Kissin
    Evgeny Kissin

    Evgeny Igorevich Kissin is a Russian classical music piano and former child prodigy. He is especially known for his interpretations of the works of Chopin, for whom he has felt an affinity since early childhood....
  • Stephen Kovacevich
    Stephen Kovacevich

    Stephen Kovacevich , who has also been known as Stephen Bishop and Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich is an American classical pianist and Conducting....
  • Dong-Hyek Lim
    Dong-Hyek Lim

    Dong-Hyek Lim is a young South Korean classical pianist. Lim currently studies with Emanuel Ax at the Juilliard School in New York City, and received the Samsung Culture Scholarship and the Ezoe Scholarship....
  • Gabriela Montero
    Gabriela Montero

    Gabriela Montero is a Venezuelan pianist.Montero gave her first public performance at the age of five. At age eight, she made her concert debut with the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra, conducted by Jos? Antonio Abreu and was granted a scholarship from the Venezuelan government to study in the USA....
  • John Ogdon
    John Ogdon

    John Andrew Howard Ogdon was an English pianist and composer.Ogdon was born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, and attended Manchester Grammar School, before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music between 1953 and 1957, where his fellow students included Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and Peter Maxwell D...
  • André Previn
    André Previn

    Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
  • Simon Trpceski
    Simon Trpceski

    Simon Trpceski , is a classical pianist from the Republic of Macedonia. In 2002, he received his degree in music from the University of St. Cyril and St....
  • Ayako Uehara
    Ayako Uehara

    is a classical pianist.She won 2nd prize in the 2000 Sydney International Piano Competition. In 2002 she became the first woman to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition....
  • Lars Vogt
    Lars Vogt

    Lars Vogt is a German concert pianist....
  • Alexis Weissenberg
    Alexis Weissenberg

    Alexis Weissenberg is a Bulgarian-born French Jewish pianist....


Violin

  • Renaud Capuçon
  • Sarah Chang
    Sarah Chang

    Sarah Chang is a Korean-American violin virtuoso....
     Violin
  • Kyung-wha Chung
    Kyung-Wha Chung

    Kyung-wha Chung is a Korean people violinist....
  • Nigel Kennedy
    Nigel Kennedy

    Nigel Kennedy is a violinist and violist....
  • Sir Yehudi Menuhin
    Yehudi Menuhin

    Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire was a violinist and conducting who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom....
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter
    Anne-Sophie Mutter

    Anne-Sophie Mutter is a Germany violin virtuoso....
  • David Oistrak
  • Itzhak Perlman
    Itzhak Perlman

    Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-United States of America violin virtuoso, conducting, and teacher....
  • Christian Teztlaff
  • Maxim Vengerov
    Maxim Vengerov

    Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a russian violin virtuoso who was born in the Soviet Union....
  • Frank Peter Zimmermann
    Frank Peter Zimmermann

    Frank Peter Zimmermann is a Germany violinist.He started playing the violin when he was five years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10....


Cello

  • Andreas Brantelid
  • Gautier Capuçon
    Gautier Capuçon

    Gautier Capu?on is a French people cellist....
  • Han-na Chang
    Han-na Chang

    Han-na Chang is a Korean cellist, considered one of today?s most outstanding young instrumentalists....
  • Natalie Clein
    Natalie Clein

    Natalie Clein is a United Kingdom cellist, born in Poole, Dorset....
  • Jacqueline du Pré
    Jacqueline du Pré

    Jacqueline Mary du Pr? Order of the British Empire was an English cello, acknowledged as one of the greatest exponents of the instrument. She is particularly associated with Edward Elgar Cello Concerto ; her interpretation of this work has been described as "definitive" and "legendary"....
  • Truls Mørk
    Truls Mørk

    Truls Otterbech M?rk is a Norway cello.He was born in Bergen, Norway, the child of two professional musicians, his father a cellist and his mother a piano....
  • Mstislav Rostropovich
    Mstislav Rostropovich

    Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire , , known to close friends as ?Slava,? was a Russians cellist and conducting....


Trumpet

  • Maurice André
    Maurice André

    Maurice Andr? is a French trumpeter, active in the european classical music field.He was born in Al?s, France in the C?vennes into a mining family....
  • Ole Edvard Antonsen
    Ole Edvard Antonsen

    Ole Edvard Antonsen is a Norwegian trumpeter and musician.He is active in different genres of music, classical music, chamber music, baroque, jazz and pop music....
  • Alison Balsom
    Alison Balsom

    Alison Balsom is an England trumpet soloist. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama the Paris Conservatory, and also with H?kan Hardenberger....


Guitar

  • Manuel Barrueco
    Manuel Barrueco

    Manuel Barrueco is a Classical music classical guitar. He was born on 1952 in Santiago de Cuba, on Cuba's southeastern shore. He has toured in the U.S., Europe and Japan, and serves on the faculty of Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland....
  • Xuefei Yang


Oboe

  • Christoph Hartmann


Clarinet

  • Sabine Meyer
    Sabine Meyer

    Sabine Meyer is a Germany European classical music clarinetist.Meyer began playing the clarinet at an early age. Her first teacher was her father, also a clarinetist....


Flute

  • Emmanuel Pahud
    Emmanuel Pahud

    Emmanuel Pahud is a France-Switzerland flute player.Pahud started to learn the flute at the age of 6 and in 1990 graduated with the Premier Prix from the Paris Conservatoire while studying with Michel Debost before continuing his studies with Aur?le Nicolet....


Sitar

  • Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar

    Pandit Ravi Shankar is a Bengali people Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple of Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani classical music....


Singers


Soprano

  • Maria Callas
    Maria Callas

    Maria Callas was an American-born Greeks soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the twentieth century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique with great dramatic gifts....
  • Patrizia Ciofi
    Patrizia Ciofi

    Patrizia Ciofi, born in Casole d'Elsa, Province of Siena in 1967, is an Italy operatic soprano.She studied at the Istituto Musicale Pietro Mascagni in Livorno, and subsequently took part in master classes at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, with Carlo Bergonzi and Shirley Verrett....
  • Diana Damrau
    Diana Damrau

    Kammers?nger Diana Damrau is a dramatic coloratura soprano of the operatic stage....
  • Natalie Dessay
    Natalie Dessay

    Natalie Dessay is a France coloratura soprano. She dropped the "h" in her first name in honor of Natalie Wood when she was in grade school and subsequently simplified the spelling of her surname outside France....
  • Véronique Gens
    Véronique Gens

    V?ronique Gens is a French soprano. She has spent much of her career recording and performing Baroque music.Gens studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and won first prize of the school....
  • Angela Gheorghiu
    Angela Gheorghiu

    Angela Gheorghiu in Adjud, Romania is one of the most renowned operatic singers of the 21st Century. Since her professional debut in 1990, she has sung as soprano leading roles at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden's Royal Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, Milan's La Scala, and many other major opera houses in Europe and the U...
  • Barbara Hendricks
    Barbara Hendricks

    Barbara Hendricks is an American-born operatic soprano and concert singer. She is also known for her work as a human rights activist. Hendricks is currently a citizen of Sweden....
  • Denise Leigh
  • Natasha Marsh
    Natasha Marsh

    Natasha Marsh is a Wales operatic soprano. A highly-regarded performer in both opera and oratorio, her debut album, Amour, topped the classical album charts in 2007....
  • Kate Royal
    Kate Royal

    Kate Royal is an English lyric soprano. She attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, Dorset. She later studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then the National Opera Studio, graduating in the summer of 2004....
  • Elizabeth Schwarzkopf
  • Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
    Kiri Te Kanawa

    Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, Order of New Zealand, Order of the British Empire, Order of Australia, is a New Zealand soprano who had a highly successful international opera career between 1968-2004....
  • Liping Zhang
    Liping Zhang

    Liping Zhang is an internationally-renowned Chinese-Canadian soprano. Her reputation is based on a series of outstanding interpretations in both the belcanto and lyric repertoire....


Mezzo-Soprano

  • Dame Janet Baker
    Janet Baker

    Dame Janet Abbott Baker Companion of Honour Dame Commander of the British Empire FRSA is an England mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer....
  • Joyce DiDonato
    Joyce DiDonato

    Joyce DiDonato is an award winning American operatic mezzo-soprano particularly admired for her interpretations of the works of Handel, Mozart, and Rossini....
  • Christa Ludwig
    Christa Ludwig

    Christa Ludwig is a Germany retired mezzo-soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera and Lieder. Her career spanned from the late 1940s until the early 1990s....


Countertenor

  • Max Emanuel Cencic
    Max Emanuel Cencic

    Max Emanuel Cencic is a sopranist countertenor.From 1986 or 1987 to 1992, he was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir.From 1992 to 1997 he started a solo career, singing soprano although his voice had already Puberty#Voice change....
  • David Daniels
    David Daniels

    David Daniels is an United States countertenor....
  • Philippe Jaroussky
    Philippe Jaroussky

    Philippe Jaroussky is a France sopranist countertenor. He is noted for a virtuosic coloratura technique and for compelling and enlivened interpretations of baroque music cantatas and operas....
  • Gerard Lesne
    Gérard Lesne

    G?rard Lesne is a France countertenor. He also the founder and artistic director of the baroque music ensemble, Il Seminario Musicale. He has made more than 70 recordings and has appeared as a soloist at numerous opera houses and music festivals including the Op?ra de Paris, Th??tre des Champs-Elys?es, La Fenice, Op?ra National de Lyon, Th??...


Tenor

  • Roberto Alagna
    Roberto Alagna

    Roberto Alagna is a France operatic tenor of Sicilian descent. He was born in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France....
  • Alfie Boe
    Alfie Boe

    Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe, known as Alfie Boe, is an England tenor....
  • Ian Bostridge
    Ian Bostridge

    Ian Bostridge Order of the British Empire is an acclaimed England tenor, well known for his performances as an opera singer and as a song recitalist....
  • Franco Corelli
    Franco Corelli

    Franco Corelli was an Italian tenor active in opera from 1951 to 1976. Associated in particular with the big spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was celebrated internationally for his handsome stage presence and thrilling upper register....
  • Plácido Domingo
    Plácido Domingo

    Jos? Pl?cido Domingo Embil Order of the British Empire , better known as Pl?cido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range....
  • Rolando Villazon
    Rolando Villazón

    Emilio Rolando Villaz?n Maule?n is a Mexico tenor. He is currently in international demand as an opera singer, and also maintains an active recording career....


Baritone

  • Olaf Bär
    Olaf Bär

    Olaf B?r is a Germany operatic baritone.B?r received his musical training in his home city of Dresden. His career has concentrated on the Baritone#Lyric baritone roles of the operatic repertoire, and as a performer of lieder....
  • Thomas Hampson


Bass

  • Jonathan Lemalu
    Jonathan Lemalu

    Jonathan Fa'afetai Lemalu is a New Zealand opera singer, of Samoan descent. Born in Dunedin, he sings in the bass baritone register.Educated in Dunedin, Jonathan studied both Law and Music at the University of Otago, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws in 1999....
  • Willard White
    Willard White

    Sir Willard Wentworth White Order of the British Empire is a Jamaican-born UK bass-baritone....


Crossover Acts

  • Keedie Babb
  • Becky
    Becky

    is a popular Tarento in Japan under the entertainment company Sun Music. Born on March 6 1984, in Kanagawa Prefecture....
  • Sarah Brightman
    Sarah Brightman

    Sarah Brightman is an English people Crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She sings in many different languages including English language, Spanish language, French language, Latin language, German language, Italian language, Hindi language and Chinese language....
  • Celtic Tenors
    Celtic Tenors

    The Celtic Tenors debuted as the Three Irish Tenors on RTE's Theatre Nights on October 1995. The group at that time consisted of James Nelson, Niall Morris and Paul Hennessey....
  • Celtic Woman
    Celtic Woman

    Celtic Woman is a musical ensemble comprising five Irish female artists: vocaliists Chlo? Agnew, Lynn Hilary, Lisa Kelly, Alex Sharpe and fiddler M?ir?ad Nesbitt....
  • Div4s
  • Keith Emerson
    Keith Emerson

    Keith Noel Emerson is a British keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P....
  • Giorgia Fumanti
    Giorgia Fumanti

    Giorgia Fumanti is an Italian-Canadian soprano and singer of operatic pop. Her music is compared to that of Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman and Enya....
  • Lesley Garrett
    Lesley Garrett

    Lesley Garrett Order of the British Empire is an England soprano, broadcaster and media personality....
  • Jane Gilchrist
  • Myleene Klass
    Myleene Klass

    Myleene Angela Klass is an England actress, singer, Model , pianist, radio presenter and television presenter presenter, formerly a member of the short-lived UK pop music band Hear'Say....
  • Libera
    Libera (music)

    Libera is a non-profit all-boy vocal group directed by Robert Prizeman. Their name comes from their signature song "Libera," which is based on the Libera Me portion of the Requiem Mass....
  • Mediaeval Baebes
  • Maksim Mrvica
    Maksim Mrvica

    Maksim Mrvica [] is a popular pianist from Croatia....
  • Nigel Kennedy Quintet
  • The Planets
    The Planets

    The Planets Opus number 32 is a seven-Movement orchestral suite by the United Kingdom composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916....
  • Anoushka Shankar
    Anoushka Shankar

    Anoushka Shankar , b. June 9, 1981) is a sitar player and composer in the United States. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sunkanya Rajan, a bank employee....
  • Wild
    Wild (band)

    Wild were a five-piece classical female group. They were often compared to Bond , due to the very similar makeup and style of both groups.Although most of the band was English, Iva Cojic and Andjelka Ristic were born in Serbia....


Catalogue Series

  • 100 Best (6CD budget series)
  • 20th Century Classics series (2CD)
  • Black Boxes (Virgin Classics 5CD budget series)
  • Debut (developing artist series)
  • Encore (1CD budget series)
  • Gemini (2CD mid price series)
  • Great Artists of the Century
  • Great Recordings of the Century
  • Historical (series of public domain recordings)
  • ICON series
  • The Karajan Collection
  • The Klemperer Legacy
  • Legend (CD+DVD series)
  • Maria Callas Edition
  • Opera Series (budget opera series without libretto)
  • The Perlman Edition
  • The Platinum Collection (3CD budget series from EMI UK)
  • Recommends Series (Gramophone / Penguin Guide recommended series from EMI UK)
  • References (historical series from EMI France)
  • Rouge et Noir (2CD mid price series from EMI France)
  • The Classics (Virgin Classics budget series)
  • Triples (3CD budget series)
  • Veritas (Virgin Classics original instrument recordings)
  • Virgin de Virgin
  • Virgo (Virgin Classics budget series)


See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...