AEOLUS
AEOLUS
was created in April 1997 by Christoph Martin Frommen and Ulrich
Lorscheider, two german Tonmeisters, who produce all their recordings
themselves.
The label focusses on early / baroque
music and organ music. The repertoire contains many world premiere
recordings in both categories. The fine equipment and the careful work
on the product result in the largely acclaimed quality of sound. A lot
of AEOLUS CDs have been awarded by the leading music magazines.
First SACD releases are planned for the fall of 2004.
www.aeolus-music.com
AIR MAIL
A quality catalogue with recordings that are also a delight for the pocket ! Yes, AIRMAIL MUSIC proves it can be done !
70% of the releases are completely new ; the other 30% are reissues of
excellent recordings from the PLAYASOUND catalogue. Music from every
continent is represented : the aim is to promote culture, whilst
providing the listener whith all the pleasures of a musical journey.
Jordy Savall's famous label
ALPHA
The record company Alpha Productions was created in June 1999 by Jean-Paul Combet.
Alpha has chosen to work with young
ensembles showing great professionalism and concern for exactitude: Le
Poème Harmonique, Le Café Zimmermann, Les Basses
Réunies, the Habanera Saxophone Quartet, L’Arpeggiata...
Distinctive ensembles with a keen interest in the exploration of new
repertoires, new sounds, and new musical approaches.
Alpha has also chosen to work with young talents such as the
harpsichordist Céline Frisch, but also with great masters such
as Gustav Leonhardt.
www.alpha-prod.com
AMBROISIE
A mark of quality reserved for young talent
Founded by Nicolas Bartholomée in 1999, the Ambroisie label
supports young artists and provides them with the follow-through
necessary for recording CDs.
www.ambroisiemusic.com
ANDANTE
ARCANA
At ARCANA, music is existential. We seek to
broaden the repertoire, distinguishing marsterpieces from trivial
works. We select those artists whose sensibility, skill and influence
create new forms of
beauty, and we place at their disposal a philosophy of unique sound to
reproduce their message with the least possible bit of artifice.
ARION
Arion has been a pioneer in the classical field and ethnic traditional music recordings publishing unknown repertoire and making people discover, thanks to talented artists, the traditional instruments of the world (Djembé, Didjeridoo…) and the classical ancient instruments (Lute in the Middle Ages, hurdy-gurdy…).
ARS MUSICI
Rudolf Ruby founded the new label ARS MUSICI in 1994. The repertoire of CD releases ranges from the Middle Ages to contemporary compositions, with special emphasis on solo recordings, chamber music and vocal music.
ATMA
The Canadian label ATMA Classique has an obvious focus on Early Music, however its catalogue includes more than 200 releases ranging from medieval to contemporary music. The catalogue includes internationally known artists, orchestras and ensembles, including star countertenor Daniel Taylor, soprano Suzie Le Blanc, Barthold Kuijken, Stephen Stubbs, Monica Huggett, Claire Guimond, the ARION ensemble, Le Quatuor Molinari, Karina Gauvin, conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin, among others, with plans on the horizon for an SACD release of Pergolesi's 'Stabat Mater' arranged by Bach featuring soprano Karina Gauvin and countertenor Daniel Taylor. This release also marks the first collaboration with one of Canada's most high-profile international ensembles, Les Violons du Roy under Artistic and Music Director Bernard Labadie.
AUDITE
The label « Audite » has developed
into a highly regarded address in the classical scene during the past
few years. Above all, the professional press has bestowed the highest
praise on Rafael Kubelik's Mahler cycle with the Bavarian Radio
Symphony Orchestra, as well as on the rediscovery of the composer
Eduard Franck. Besides these series, which are being continued, we
commit ourselves to first-class artists, unusual repertoire and
audiophile quality.
Sound engineer Ludger Böckenhoff is the motor and centre of
audite. For many years he worked for companies such as Deutsche
Grammophon, Sony and BBC, and is still active today as a producer for
other high-standard labels.
The close cooperation with a growing nucleus of first-class artists so
typical of audite has also arisen out of this activity. This guarantees
a clear programming line, consistently high quality and polished
productions in the most minute detail. The audite programme is thus
based on three pillars - legendary recordings, interesting, at times
unusual repertoire and large editions.
CYPRES
The Cyprès label - with its innovative and intelligent programming - is the best way to get to know the best of the Belgian musical scene. Every month, our new releases - often world première recordings - prepared under the finest artistic and technical conditions, enable inquiring music-lovers to keep up to date with the activity of Belgium’s contemporary composers, with the country’s fascinating heritage, as well as with all the foreign artistes who have attracted our attention.
DE WERF
EMPREINTE DIGITALE
The artistic choices are made according to the pleasure for ear and heart, and always with the underlying idea that the association with each new artist is in fact the beginning of a new adventure. The repertoires explored in classical music tend to be those of the medieval period or contemporary. The world music line was known as “Mediterranean imprints” for a long time; its main source is new music created from native musical traditions.
FREMEAUX ET ASSOCIES
HOME RECORDS
Traditional, world, jazz, pop or fusion; whatever, emotion is got one face
HUNGAROTON
Hungaroton - this is a world famous trade-mark
representing the richness of Hungarian music and musicians. The best
Hungarian classical and pop musicians as well as actors have build up a
huge back catalogue of several ten thousands of titels
The current classical catalogue - including folk, operetta, gypsy, as
well as literature and children's repertoire -includes about 1200
titels (approx.. 90% classical). The classical side has appr. 90 new
releases a year, 50 % of which are new recordings.The jazz and pop side
has its approx.50 re-issues a year from the back catalogue.
Main policy is recording world premieres and works by Hungarian composers concentrating first of all on the repertoire using the great variety of high rate performers.
IGLOO
www.ina.fr
We have 4 collections :
J - "Jazz & improvised music"
Jazz is tolerance... improvisation is communication...
F - "Fusions"
Meetings of differents cultures, with a reflexion and a thought behind it, and not casual meetings!
X - "X-perimental"
Unique musical x-periences... don't hesitate to x-plore it!
R - "Roots"
The holders of the tradition are showing the original music without trickery.
NAÏVE
NOCTURNE
OPUS111
Two years after the purchase of Auvidis, naïve further completed its classical roster with the acquisition of Opus 111, one of the most prestigious labels of Italian baroque, Middle Age music and Russian repertoire, built with passion by Yolanta Skura.
PAN CLASSICS
A recording cannot replace a concert
experience!" - so runs the opinion of many music lovers and musicians.
Indeed, there is much to be said for this assertion. The range of
arguments advanced extends from the musical to the physical. And they
appear compelling. The difference between a living room and a concert
hall, between reproduction equipment and a real orchestra, is too
great.
But if one asks "Should a recording replace a concert?" then it becomes more difficult.
The new Label of Skip Sempe.
PAVANE RECORDS
For 25 years, Pavane is an independent Belgian recording label, devoted exclusively to classical music.
Nearly 250 recordings have been published on compact disc. Many
collaborations take place between the label and its artists.
Prestigious laureats of the International Queen Elisabeth Competition
of Belgium such as Youri Egorov, Cyprien Katsaris, Rudolph Werthen,
have found an ideal and trusted partner with Pavane for the realisation
of the recording projects that they held dear.
The rediscovery of Belgian composers also figures in the editorial
priorities of Pavane, which recently published the first world-wide
complete recording of the piano music of Joseph Jongen, as well as his
string quartets.
For a few years now, Bertrand de Wouters d'Oplinter has taken over the
reins of the label, where one finds confirmed values as well as a new
generation of artists.
Resolutely turned towards the future, Pavane is developping many new
projects, notably a new series concentrating on old and baroque music www.musica-ficta.com
PIERRE VERANY
Label Pierre Verany, which is owned by Arion since 1997, issues only classical music (mainly from ancient to baroque and till XXth century French and Italian repertoire). We have Jean-Patrice Brosse with his Cd “Pièces de clavecin”…, l’Ensemble Mensa Sonora “Sonate pour 2 violons et continuo op.18”… In classical & romantic music, we issue Eric Aubier “La trompette romantique” or “La trompette française”…, l’Orchestre de Bretagne “MOZART Wolfgang Amadeus”… who do also XXth century music. We publish the Quatuor Rosamonde “Quatuors à cordes” too.
PLAYA SOUND
Founded over 20 years
ago, Playasound carries on in its own sweet way with over 200
references and a catalogue devoted exclusively to 'World Music'.
More than sixty important artists record for Playasound, including :
Adama Dramé, Carlos Do Carmo, Haydée Alba, Trân
Quang Hai, Katrien Delavier, Nassima, Abou Chihabi... to mention just a
few of them.
www.playasound.com
SITTELLE
TIMPANI
UT3-Records is a label directed by Diederik Suys and friends. We do produce studio-recordings as well as public concert recordings of solo-music and chamber music.
www.ut3-records.com