Channel Classics Records is a record label from the Netherlands, specializing in
classical music. The managing director and producer is C. Jared Sacks, who grew up in Boston. Sacks was schooled as a professional
horn player
This list of horn players and pedagogues includes notable players of French horn, German horn, natural horn, Vienna horn, tenor (alto) horn, and alphorn.
B
*Radek Baborák, former Principal horn Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Phil. Orch ...
at the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a private music conservatory in Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1865 and is the second oldest conservatory and oldest continually operating conservatory in the United States. It is one of ...
and the
Conservatorium van Amsterdam
The Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA) is a Dutch conservatoire of music located in Amsterdam. This school is the music division of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, the city's vocational university of arts. The Conservatorium van Amsterdam ...
. With fifteen years of experience in making music, Sacks decided to turn his hobby of making musical recordings into his work in 1987. The record label started in 1990 and was called after the street where he lived at the time, the Kanaalstraat in Amsterdam.
In 2006, Channel Classics began releasing records in
Super Audio CD
Super Audio CD (SACD) is an optical disc format for audio storage introduced in 1999. It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics and intended to be the successor to the Compact Disc (CD) format.
The SACD format allows multiple a ...
format by Chinese artists, including the
China National Symphony Orchestra.
Channel Classics Records released music from musicians like
Iván Fischer
Iván Fischer (born 20 January 1951) is a Hungarian conductor and composer.
Born in Budapest into a musical family of Jewish heritage, Fischer initially studied piano, violin, cello and composition in Budapest. His older brother, Ádám Fisc ...
and the
Budapest Festival Orchestra
The Budapest Festival Orchestra ( Hungarian: ''Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar'') was formed in 1983 by Iván Fischer and Zoltán Kocsis, with musicians "drawn from the cream of Hungary's younger players", as ''The Times'' put it. Its aim was to mak ...
,
Dejan Lazić,
,
Rachel Podger
Rachel Podger (born 1968 in England) is a British violinist and conductor specialising in the performance of Baroque music.
Career
Podger was born to a British father and a German mother. She was educated at a German Rudolf Steiner school then ...
and
Candida Thompson.
In September 2021 Channel Classics was acquired by
Outhere
Outhere Music is a Belgian classical music and jazz publisher, directed by Charles Adriaenssen, which owns several formerly independent labels, many of them boutique early music specialists:
* Fuga Libera, a Belgian label founded in 2004 under th ...
.
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Classical music record labels
Dutch record labels
Record labels established in 1990
1990 establishments in the Netherlands