Cybele Records is a German record label based in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

, specializing in

classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also ...

, namely

contemporary music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial ...

. Founded in 1994, their motto is "Klassik der Zukunft" (Classics of the future), focused on contemporary composers and advanced recording technologies such as

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 aud ...

and

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History

The company was founded in 1994 by who planned to publish contemporary music, literature and rarely recorded piece (''Nischenrepertoire''), but also to present classical music in a new sound. Cybele published "portraits" of contemporary composers such as Peter-Jan Wagemans and

Graham Waterhouse Graham Waterhouse (born 2 November 1962) is an English composer and cellist who specializes in chamber music. He has composed a cello concerto, ''Three Pieces for Solo Cello'' and ''Variations for Cello Solo'' for his own instrument, and string ...

, both in 2001. In 2004 they celebrated their 10th anniversary with a CD of works by various artists and composers. They then began to publish ''Hörbücher'' (

audiobook An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements. Spoken audio has been available in sc ...

s) in a series ''Künstler im Gespräch'', with Mirjam Wiesemann talking to artists about their music. In 2009 the label was awarded the ECHO Classic for the audio book ''Die Prinzessin – Kindergeschichten, geschrieben und gesprochen von Arnold Schönberg''. The edition of audio books received several awards, including in 2011 the prize for "Beste verlegerische Leistung" (best editorial achievement) of the

Deutscher Hörbuchpreis Deutscher Hörbuchpreis (German Audiobook Prize) is a literary prize of Germany. Best of all * 2003: Isaak Babel: ''Die Reiterarmee.'' ''Red Cavalry'' * 2004: Flann O'Brien: ''Auf Schwimmen-zwei-Vögel.'' ''At Swim-Two-Birds'' Kein & Aber Recor ...

. In 2009 Cybele recorded a first volume of ''Piano Works During & After Russian Futurism'', played by Thomas Günther, including works by Nikolai Obuchov,

Ivan Wyschnegradsky Ivan Alexandrovich Wyschnegradsky; Is also transliterated as Vïshnegradsky, Wyshnegradsky, Wischnegradsky, Vishnegradsky, or Wishnegradsky (after he emigrated to France, he used "Wyschnegradsky" as spelling for his surname)., group=n ( ; Septe ...

and

Sergei Protopopov Sergei Vladimirovich Protopopov (russian: Серге́й Владимирович Протопопов; , Moscow – 14 December 1954, Moscow) was a Russian avant-garde composer and music theorist. Life After studying medicine at the Mosco ...

. A second volume followed in 2014, with works by Arthur Vincent Lourie and Protopopov. In 2016 they published the complete organ works of

Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University ...

, played by

Martin Schmeding Martin Schmeding (born 1975) is a German church musician, concert organist and academic teacher, who has made recordings of the complete organ works by composers such as Brahms, Mendelssohn, Franz Schmidt, Max Reger and Tilo Medek. Career Bo ...

on thirteen different organs from the composer's time; the recording was selected as "recording of the month" (October) by MusicWeb International.

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Cybele Records – Klassik der Zukunft / Das entdeckerfreudige Label für neue und klassische Musik und für Literatur
(in German) hd-klassik.com {{authority control Classical music record labels Record labels established in 1987 Record label distributors Companies based in Düsseldorf 1987 establishments in West Germany Audiobook companies and organizations German record labels

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