EMI Classics was a
record label
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founded by
Thorn EMI
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in 1990 to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogues for internationally distributed
classical music
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releases. After Thorn EMI demerged in 1996, its recorded music division became the
EMI
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Group. Following the
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's approval of the takeover of EMI Group by
Universal Music
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in September 2012, EMI Classics was listed for divestment. The label was sold to
Warner Music Group
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, which absorbed EMI Classics into
Warner Classics
Warner Classics is the classical music arm of Warner Music Group. The label began issuing new recordings under the Warner Classics banner in 1991. The company also includes the Erato Records, Teldec Records and NVC Arts labels. Based in France, ...
in 2013.
Classical recordings were formerly simultaneously released under combinations of
Angel
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Abrahamic religions often depict angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God (or Heaven) and humanity. Other roles include ...
,
Seraphim,
Odeon
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* Odeon of Athens
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...
,
Columbia,
His Master's Voice
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, and other labels, in part because competitors own these names in various countries. These were moved under the EMI Classics umbrella to avoid the
trademark
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problems. Prior to this,
compact discs
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distributed globally bore the Angel Records recording angel logo that EMI owned globally. Releases created for distribution in specific countries continued to be distributed under the historical names, with the exception of Columbia, since EMI had sold the Columbia name to
Sony Music Entertainment
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. The red logo harkens back to the Red Seal releases, introduced by EMI predecessor the
Gramophone Company
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in 1902: HMV classical releases were issued with red labels. EMI Classics was also responsible for managing
Pye Records
Pye Records was a British record label. Its best known artists were Lonnie Donegan (1956–1969), Petula Clark (1957–1971), the Searchers (1963–1967), the Kinks (1964–1971), Sandie Shaw (1964–1971), Status Quo (1968–1971) and Brotherhoo ...
' classical recordings acquired by Thorn EMI in 1990.
EMI Classics also included the
Virgin Classics
Virgin Classics was a record label founded in 1988 as part of Richard Branson's Virgin Records.
The unit, along with EMI Classics, was acquired by Universal Music in 2012 as part of the takeover of the EMI Group, however the terms of the Europea ...
label, both of them were formerly managed under
The Blue Note Label Group
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Labels under Bl ...
in the U.S. until 2013.
With the sale of EMI to
Universal Music Group
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in 2012, European regulators forced Universal Music to divest itself of EMI Classics, which was operated with other European EMI assets to be divested as the
Parlophone
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Label Group. In February 2013, Universal Music sold the Parlophone Label Group, including EMI Classics and Virgin Classics, to
Warner Music Group
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. The
European Union
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approved the deal on May, and WMG took control of the label on 1 July. It was then announced that the EMI Classics artist roster and catalogue would be absorbed into the
Warner Classics
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label and Virgin Classics would be absorbed into
Erato Records
Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 as Disques Erato by Philippe Loury to promote French classical music. Loury was head of éditions musicales Costallat. His first releases in France were licensed from the Haydn Society of Boston, a ...
.
Artists
Composers
* Thomas Adès
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* Craig Armstrong
* Howard Goodall
* Karl Jenkins
Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins (born 17 February 1944) is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist and composer. His best known works include the song " Adiemus" and the ''Adiemus'' album series; '' Palladio''; ''The Armed Man''; and his ''Requiem''.
J ...
* Jon Lord
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* Sir Paul McCartney
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* Wim Mertens
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Life and work
Mertens was born in Neerpelt, Belgium. He studied social and political science at the University of Leu ...
* Michael Nyman
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* Zbigniew Preisner
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* John Rutter
John Milford Rutter (born 24 September 1945) is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer, mainly of choral music.
Biography
Born on 24 September 1945 in London, the son of an industrial chemist and his wife, Rutte ...
* John Tavener
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* Michael Tippett
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* Mohammed Abdel Wahab
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Conductors
* Claudio Abbado
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* Sir John Barbirolli
Sir John Barbirolli ( Giovanni Battista Barbirolli; 2 December 189929 July 1970) was a British conductor and cellist. He is remembered above all as conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he helped save from dissolution in 194 ...
* Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim (; in he, דניאל בארנבוים, born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. He has been since 1992 General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeist ...
* Sir Thomas Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, Order of the Companions of Honour, CH (29 April 18798 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic and the Roya ...
* Sir Adrian Boult
* William Christie
* Alan Curtis
* Lawrence Foster
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* Wilhelm Furtwängler
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* Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini (; 9 May 1914 – 14 June 2005) was an Italian conductor.
From the age of five, when he began to play the violin, Giulini's musical education was expanded when he began to study at Italy's foremost conservatory, the Conserva ...
* Emmanuelle Haïm
Emmanuelle Haïm (; born 11 May 1962) is a French harpsichordist and conductor with a particular interest in early music and Baroque music.
Early life, student and assistant years
Haïm was born and grew up in Paris, and was raised Catholic al ...
* Bernard Haitink
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* Vernon Handley
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* Daniel Harding
Daniel John Harding (born 31 August 1975) is a British conductor.
Biography
Harding was born in Oxford. He studied trumpet at Chetham's School of Music and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra at age 13. At age 17, Harding assembled ...
* Richard Hickox
Richard Sidney Hickox (5 March 1948 – 23 November 2008) was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music.
Early life
Hickox was born in Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire into a musical family. After attending the Royal Gram ...
* Mariss Jansons
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* Paavo Järvi
Paavo Järvi (; born 30 December 1962) is an Estonian-American conductor.
Early life
Järvi was born in Tallinn, Estonia, to Liilia Järvi and the Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi. His siblings, Kristjan Järvi and Maarika Järvi, are also mu ...
* Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan (; born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, wit ...
* Rudolf Kempe
Rudolf Kempe (14 June 1910 – 12 May 1976) was a German conductor.
Biography
Kempe was born in Dresden, where from the age of fourteen he studied at the Dresden State Opera School. He played oboe in the opera orchestra of Dortmund and ...
* Otto Klemperer
Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 18856 July 1973) was a 20th-century conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the US, Hungary and finally Britain. His early career was in opera houses, but he was later better known as a concer ...
* John Lanchbery
John Arthur Lanchbery OBE (15 May 1923 – 27 February 2003) was an English-Australian composer and conductor, famous for his ballet arrangements. He served as the Principal Conductor of the Royal Ballet from 1959 to 1972, Principal Conductor ...
* Sir Charles Mackerras
Mackerras in 2005
Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (; 1925 2010) was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was long associated with the Engli ...
* Sir Neville Marriner
Sir Neville Marriner, (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English violinist and "one of the world's greatest conductors". Gramophone lists Marriner as one of the 50 greatest conductors and another compilation ranks Marriner #14 of the ...
* Jean Martinon
Jean Francisque-Étienne Martinon (usually known simply as Jean Martinon (); 10 January 19101 March 1976) was a French conductor and composer.
Biography
Martinon was born in Lyon, where he began his education, going on to the Conservatoire ...
* Kurt Masur
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* Ingo Metzmacher
Ingo Metzmacher (born 10 November 1957 in Hanover) is a German conductor and artistic director of the festival KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hanover.
Life
Ingo Metzmacher is the son of the cellist Rudolf Metzmacher and the research biolo ...
* Riccardo Muti
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* Sir Roger Norrington
* Sir Antonio Pappano
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* Michel Plasson
Michel Plasson (born 2 October 1933, Paris, France) is a French conductor.
Plasson was a student of Lazare Lévy at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1962, he was a prize-winner at the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors. ...
* André Previn
André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved ...
* Sir John Pritchard
* Sir Simon Rattle
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* Jérémie Rhorer
* Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch (26 August 1923 – 22 February 2013) was a German conductor and pianist.
Biography
Wolfgang Sawallisch was born in Munich, the son of Maria and Wilhelm Sawallisch. His father was director of the Hamburg-Bremer-Feuerversich ...
* Jeffrey Tate
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* Franz Welser-Möst
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Biography
Franz Leopold Maria Möst was born in Linz, Austria, ...
* Sir David Willcocks
Sir David Valentine Willcocks, (30 December 1919 – 17 September 2015) was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator. He was particularly well known for his association with the Choir of King's College, Cambr ...
Chamber ensembles
* Ahn Trio
The Ahn Trio is a classical piano trio composed of three sisters: Angella (violin), Lucia (piano), and Maria (cello) Ahn; Lucia and Maria are twins. Born in Seoul, Korea, they moved to New York City in 1981, and began their training at the Juilli ...
* L'Arpeggiata
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The group focuses on Italian, ...
* Artemis Quartet
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History
The first members of the Artemis Quartet, Wilken Ranck, Is ...
* Alban Berg Quartett
The Alban Berg Quartett was a string quartet founded in Vienna, Austria in 1970, named after Alban Berg.
Members
Beginnings
The Berg Quartet was founded in 1970 by four young professors of the Vienna Academy of Music, and made its debut in ...
* Belcea Quartet
* Eroica Trio The Eroica Trio is an American piano trio consisting of Erika Nickrenz, piano; Sara Parkins, violin; and Sara Sant'Ambrogio, cello.
The trio take their name from Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. They have toured and recorded widely, and released si ...
* Quatuor Ébène
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Classical String quartet
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* Wiener Stringsextet
*Libera
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* Libera (mythology), a Roman goddess of fertility
* Libera (choir), a boy vocal group from London
* ''Libera'' (film), a 1993 comedy film
* "Libera" (song), a song by Italian artist Mia Martini
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Choirs and vocal ensembles
* Cantorion
* Choir of Clare College Cambridge
* Choir of King's College, Cambridge
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* Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
* John Alldis Choir
John Alldis (10 August 192920 December 2010) was an English chorus-master and conductor.
Biography
Alldis was educated at King's College School, Cambridge and Felsted. He then returned to King's College, Cambridge as a choral scholar under Bo ...
* Kindred Spirits
* The King's Singers
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* Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
* Rundfunkchor Berlin
The Rundfunkchor Berlin (Berlin Radio Choir) is a professional German classical choir founded in 1925.
In the 1950s the choir was divided into the Berliner Solistenvereinigung and the Großer Chor des Berliner Rundfunks. These were united as Run ...
* Westminster Abbey Choir
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* Winchester Cathedral Choir
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*Libera
Libera may refer to:
* Libera (mythology), a Roman goddess of fertility
* Libera (choir), a boy vocal group from London
* ''Libera'' (film), a 1993 comedy film
* "Libera" (song), a song by Italian artist Mia Martini
* ''Libera'' (gastropod), a ...
Orchestras
* Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
* Les Arts Florissants
* Berliner Philharmoniker
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History
The Berlin Philharmonic was fo ...
* Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
* Il Complesso Barocco
* Le Concert d'Astrée Le Concert d'Astrée is an instrumental and vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of Baroque music. It was founded In 2000 by Emmanuelle Haïm, and has been in residence at the Opéra de Lille since 2004 and has established an international ...
* Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (''unofficial English translation'': Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic) is a chamber orchestra based in Bremen (Germany), with place of residence in the historical building Stadtwaage.
History
A group of ...
* English Chamber Orchestra
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* Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
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* Europa Galante
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The ensemble has been invited to play at festivals and in concert halls such as La Scala in Milan, the Accademia di ...
* Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
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* London Chamber Orchestra
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* London Philharmonic Orchestra
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* London Symphony Orchestra
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* Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo
* Philharmonia Orchestra
* Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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The RPO was established by Thomas Beecham in 1946. In its early days, the orchestra secured profitable ...
Instrumentalists
Piano
* Simon Trpčeski
Simon Trpcheski (Simon Trpčeski), OMM ( mk, Симон Трпчески, ) (born September 18, 1979, in Skopje, Yugoslavia), is a Macedonian classical pianist.
Trpčeski is the youngest of three children; his father was a judge and his mother ...
* Leif Ove Andsnes
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* Piotr Anderszewski
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Biographical background
Anderszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland. His father's family was part of Poland's aristocracy while his mother came from a Jewish Hungarian family. He s ...
* Martha Argerich
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Early life and education
Argerich was born in Buenos A ...
* Daniel Barenboim
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* Michel Béroff
* Jonathan Biss
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Early life and education
Biss was born into a fam ...
* Youri Egorov
Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov (russian: Юрий Александрович Егоров; 28 May 1954 – 16 April 1988) was a Soviet and Monegasque classical pianist.
Early years
Born in Kazan, USSR, Youri Egorov studied music at the Kazan Conser ...
* Ingrid Fliter
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* David Fray
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* Evgeny Kissin
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* Stephen Kovacevich
* Li Yundi
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* Dong-Hyek Lim
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* Gabriela Montero
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* John Ogdon
* Awadagin Pratt
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Life
Awadagin Pratt began piano lessons at six with Leslie Sompong and violin lessons at age nine, having moved to Normal, Illinois. With a violin s ...
* André Previn
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* Anne Queffélec
Anne Queffélec (born 17 January 1948) is a French classical pianist, born in Paris.
Biography
Anne Queffélec is the daughter of Henri Queffélec and sister of Yann Queffélec, both noted writers. Her brother Hervé Queffélec is a mathema ...
* Ayako Uehara
* Lars Vogt
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* Alexis Weissenberg
Alexis Sigismund Weissenberg ( bg, Алексис Сигизмунд Вайсенберг; 26 July 1929 – 8 January 2012) was a Bulgarian-born French pianist.
Early life and career
Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking ...
Violin
* Renaud Capuçon
Renaud Capuçon (born 27 January 1976) is a French classical violinist.
Since late 2016 he has been teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Biography
Capuçon was born in Chambéry on 27 January 1976. He entered the conservatory in h ...
* Sarah Chang
* Kyung-wha Chung
Kyung Wha Chung (born 26 March 1948) is a South Korean violinist.
Early years and education
Kyung Wha Chung was born in Seoul as the middle of the seven children in her family. Her father was an exporter, and her mother ran a restaurant.
She b ...
* Vilde Frang
Vilde Frang Bjærke (born 19 August 1986) is a Norway, Norwegian classical music, classical violinist.
Early life and education
Born in Oslo, Norway, Frang began playing the violin by the Suzuki method at the age of four. In the years 1993–2 ...
* Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz (; December 10, 1987) was a Russian-born American violinist. Born in Vilnius, he moved while still a teenager to the United States, where his Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. He was a virtuoso since childhood. Fritz ...
(recording for HMV in the 1930s)
* Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy (born 28 December 1956) is an English violinist and violist.
His early career was primarily spent performing classical music, and he has since expanded into jazz, klezmer, and other music genres.
Early life and background
Kenn ...
* Sir Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi or Jehudi (Hebrew: יהודי, endonym for Jew) is a common Hebrew name:
* Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist and conductor
** Yehudi Menuhin School, a music school in Surrey, England
** Who's Yehoodi?, a catchphrase referring to the v ...
* Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter (born 29 June 1963) is a German violinist. She was supported early in her career by Herbert von Karajan. As an advocate of contemporary music, she has had several works composed especially for her, by Sebastian Currier, Henri ...
* David Oistrakh
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (; – 24 October 1974), was a Soviet classical violinist, violist and conductor.
Oistrakh collaborated with major orchestras and musicians from many parts of the world and was the dedicatee of numerous violin w ...
* Itzhak Perlman
* Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (born January 10, 1961) is an Italian and American classical violinist and teacher.
Early life and education
Salerno-Sonnenberg was born in Rome, Italy. Her father left when she was three months old. She emigrated with ...
* Christian Tetzlaff
Christian Tetzlaff (born 29 April 1966) is a German violinist.
Biography
Tetzlaff was born in Hamburg. His parents were amateur musicians and met in a church choir. He began playing the violin and piano at the age of 6, and made his concert debu ...
* Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (russian: Максим Александрович Венгеров, , mɐkˈsʲim ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ vʲɪnˈɡʲerəf; he, מקסים ונגרוב; born 20 August 1974) is a Russian-born Israeli violinist, ...
* Frank Peter Zimmermann
Frank Peter Zimmermann (born 27 February 1965) is a German violinist.
Childhood
He was born in Duisburg, West Germany, and started playing the violin when he was five years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10.
Since he ...
Cello
* Andreas Brantelid
Andreas Brantelid (born 8 October 1987) is a Swedish- Danish cellist.
He had his concerto debut at the age of 14 playing Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Royal Danish Orchestra. In 2006 he won the Eurovision Young Musicians
The Eurovision Young ...
* Gautier Capuçon
With Jean-Claude Casadesus
Gautier Capuçon (born 3 September 1981) is a French cellist.
Biography
Gautier Capuçon was born in Chambéry, Savoie, the youngest of three siblings. His brother is the violinist Renaud Capuçon.
He started learni ...
* Han-na Chang
* Natalie Clein
Natalie Clein (born Poole, Dorset) is a British classical cellist. Her mother is a professional violinist. Her sister is the actress Louisa Clein.
Early life and education
Clein started playing the cello at the age of six, and attended Ta ...
* Steven Isserlis
Steven Isserlis (born 19 December 1958) is a British cellist. He has led a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, author and broadcaster. Acclaimed for his profound musicianship, he is also noted for his diverse reper ...
* Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber (born 14 April 1951) is a British solo cellist, conductor and broadcaster, a former principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the founder of the In Harmony music education programme.
Early years and education
Julian ...
* Jacqueline du Pré
Jacqueline Mary du Pré (26 January 1945 – 19 October 1987) was a British cellist. At a young age, she achieved enduring mainstream popularity. Despite her short career, she is regarded as one of the greatest cellists of all time.
Her care ...
* Truls Mørk
Truls Olaf Otterbech Mørk (born 25 April 1961) is a Norwegian cellist.
Biography
Mørk was born in Bergen, Norway to a cellist father, John Fritjof Mørk, and a pianist mother, Turid Otterbech. His mother began teaching him the piano when he w ...
* Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, (27 March 192727 April 2007) was a Russian cellist and conductor. He is considered by many to be the greatest cellist of the 20th century. In addition to his interpretations and technique, he was wel ...
* Trey Lee Chui-yee
Trey Lee (Chinese:李垂誼; pinyin: Chui-yee Lee) is a Hong Kong-born cellist based in Berlin, Germany. A laureate of major international competitions, he appears as a featured soloist with orchestras and festivals all over the world. He is also ...
* Robert Cohen
Trumpet
* Maurice André
Maurice André (21 May 1933 – 25 February 2012) was a French trumpeter, active in the classical music field.
He was professor of trumpet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where he introduced the teaching of the picc ...
* Ole Edvard Antonsen
Ole Edvard Antonsen (born 25 April 1962) is a Norwegian trumpeter, musician and conductor.
Antonsen was born in Vang, Hedmark, now part of Hamar. He is best known as a solo trumpeter, active in different genres of music; classical music, chamb ...
* Alison Balsom
Alison Louise Balsom, Lady Mendes, (born 7 October 1978) is an English trumpet soloist, arranger, producer, and music educator. Balsom was awarded Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards and has won three Classic BRIT Awards and thre ...
* Markus Stockhausen
Markus Stockhausen (born May 2, 1957) is a German trumpeter and composer. His recordings and performances have typically alternated between jazz and chamber or opera music, the latter often in collaboration with his father, composer Karlheinz Sto ...
Guitar
* Manuel Barrueco
Manuel Barrueco (born December 16, 1952) is a Cuban classical guitarist. During three decades of concert performances he has performed and recorded across the United States and has been involved in many successful collaborations. In addition, he ...
* Xuefei Yang
Oboe
* Christoph Hartmann
Clarinet
* Sabine Meyer
Sabine Meyer (born 30 March 1959) is a German classical clarinetist.
Biography
Born in Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Meyer began playing the clarinet at an early age. Her first teacher was her father, also a clarinetist. She studied with Otto ...
Flute
* Emmanuel Pahud
Emmanuel Pahud (born 27 January 1970) is a Franco-Swiss flautist.
He was born in Geneva, Switzerland. His father is of French and Swiss background and his mother is French. The Berlin-based flutistPatrick LamEmmanuel Pahud – The showcase behi ...
* Ransom Wilson
Ransom Wilson (born 25 October 1951 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is an American flutist, conductor, and educator.
He currently is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Artistic Director and Conductor of the Le Train Bleu ensemble ...
Organ
* Naji Hakim
Naji Subhy Paul Irénée Hakim (Arabic: ''ناجي صبحي حكيم'' 'Naji Sobhi Hakim'' born 31 October 1955) is a Franco-Lebanese organist, composer, and improviser.
He studied the organ under Jean Langlais at the Conservatoire de Paris, a ...
Sitar
* Purbayan Chatterjee
Purbayan Chatterjee (born in Kolkata on 12th September 1976) is an Indian sitar maestro who lives in Mumbai, India. He is noted for amalgamating traditional Indian classical music with contemporary world music genres.
Early life and career ...
* Anoushka Shankar
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* Ravi Shankar
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Singers
Soprano
*Elly Ameling
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* Maria Callas
* Patrizia Ciofi
Patrizia Ciofi (born 7 June 1967) is an Italian operatic coloratura soprano.
Career
Born in Casole d'Elsa, Ciofi studied at the Istituto Musicale Pietro Mascagni in Livorno. She subsequently took part in master classes at the Accademia Musicale ...
* Diana Damrau
Diana Damrau (; born 31 May 1971) is a German soprano who achieved international fame for her performances, primarily in opera, but also in concert and lieder. She has been successful in coloratura soprano roles since her early career, and gradua ...
* Natalie Dessay
Natalie Dessay (; born 19 April 1965) is a French singer, known for her former career as an operatic soprano. She gained wide recognition after her portrayal of Olympia in ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' in 1992, and then performing at leading stages, ...
* Véronique Gens
Véronique Gens (born 19 April 1966) is a French operatic soprano. She has spent much of her career recording and performing Baroque music.
Gens was born in Orléans, France, and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning first prize at the ...
* Angela Gheorghiu
Angela Gheorghiu (; ; born 7 September 1965) is a Romanian soprano, especially known for her performances in the operas of Puccini and Verdi, widely recognised by critics and opera lovers as one of the greatest sopranos of all time.
Embarking ...
* Barbara Hendricks
Barbara Hendricks (born November 20, 1948) is an American operatic soprano and concert singer. Hendricks has lived in Europe since 1977, and in Switzerland in Basel since 1985. She is a citizen of Sweden following her marriage to a Swedish c ...
* Ruth Ann Swenson
* Natasha Marsh
* Mady Mesplé
Mady Mesplé (7 March 1931 – 30 May 2020) was a French opera singer, considered the leading coloratura soprano of her generation in France, and sometimes heralded as the successor to Mado Robin, with ''Lakmé'' by Delibes becoming her signatur ...
* Kate Royal
Kate Royal (born 1979) is an English lyric soprano. She is the daughter of Steve Royal, a singer and songwriter for television, and of Carolyn Royal, a former model and dancer.
Royal was born in London and attended Talbot Heath School in Bour ...
* Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, (9 December 19153 August 2006) was a German-born Austro-British soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the op ...
* Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
* Liping Zhang
Mezzo-soprano
* Dame Janet Baker
Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.Blyth, Alan, "Baker, Dame Janet (Abbott)" in Sadie, Stanley, ed.; John Tyrell; exec. ed. (2001). ''New Grove Dictionary ...
* Joyce DiDonato
Joyce DiDonato (née Flaherty; born February 13, 1969) is an American lyric-coloratura mezzo-soprano. She is notable for her interpretations of operas and concert works in the 19th-century romantic era in addition to works by Handel and Mozart.
...
* Fairuz
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* Christa Ludwig
* Réjane Magloire
Réjane Magloire (born 1964) is a Congolese–American singer, model, and actress.
Biography
Réjane Magloire was born in 1964 in Likasi, Zaïre (now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo), but grew up in New York City, United States. ...
Contralto
* Kathleen Ferrier
Kathleen Mary Ferrier, CBE (22 April 19128 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the c ...
* Umm Kulthum
Umm Kulthum ( ar, أم كلثوم, , also spelled ''Oum Kalthoum'' in English; born Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi, ar, فاطمة إبراهيم السيد البلتاجي, Fāṭima ʾIbrāhīm es-Sayyid el-Beltāǧī, link=no; 31 Dece ...
Countertenor
* Max Emanuel Cenčić
Max Emanuel Cenčić (born 21 September 1976) is a Croatian countertenor, as of 1994 based in Austria. He was a member of the Wiener Sängerknaben.
Early career as a boy soprano
Born Max Emanuel Cenčić in Zagreb, he started singing at a ve ...
* David Daniels
* Philippe Jaroussky
Philippe Jaroussky (born 13 February 1978) is a French countertenor. He began his musical career with the violin, winning an award at the Versailles conservatory, and then took up the piano before turning to singing.
Unusually for a countertenor ...
* Gérard Lesne
Gérard Lesne (; born 15 July 1956) is a French countertenor. He is also the founder and artistic director of the baroque music ensemble, Il Seminario Musicale.
Life and career
Gérard Lesne was born in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise. He was originall ...
Tenor
* Roberto Alagna
Roberto Alagna (; born 7 June 1963) is a French operatic tenor. He obtained French citizenship in 1981, while also retaining his previous Italian citizenship.
Early years
Alagna was born in Clichy-sous-Bois, outside the city of Paris, in 1963 to ...
* Alfie Boe
* Ian Bostridge
Ian Charles Bostridge CBE (born 25 December 1964) is an English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera and lieder singer.
Early life and education
Bostridge was born in London, the son of Leslie Bostridge and Lillian (née Clark). ...
* Franco Corelli
* George Dalaras
George Dalaras ( Γιώργος Νταλάρας, 29 September 1949) is a Greek musician and singer. He is one of the most prominent figures of Greek musical culture. In October 2006, he was selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Ag ...
* Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French ...
* Abdel Halim Hafez
Abdel Halim Ali Shabana ( ar, عبد الحليم علي شبانة), commonly known as Abdel Halim Hafez ( ar, عبد الحليم حافظ,) (June 21, 1929 – March 30, 1977), was an Egyptian singer, actor, conductor, businessman, music teach ...
* Simon O'Neill
Simon John O'Neill (born 1971) is a New Zealand-born operatic tenor. In 1998, his image appeared on the New Zealand one-dollar performing arts postage stamp.
Biography
O'Neill was born in Ashburton, New Zealand, and received his musical tra ...
* Rolando Villazón
Rolando Villazón Mauleón (born 22 February 1972) is a Mexican operatic tenor, stage director, author, radio and television personality and artistic director. He now lives in France, and in 2007 became a French citizen.
Villazón has published ...
Baritone
* Olaf Bär
Olaf Bär (born 19 December 1957) is a German operatic baritone.
Life
Bär received his musical training in his home city of Dresden, studying at the city's Hochschule für Musik. His career has concentrated on lieder and on the lyric baritone ...
* Thomas Hampson
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Hampson's operatic repertoire spans a range ...
Bass
* Jonathan Lemalu
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* Willard White
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Early life
White was born into a Jamaican family in Kingston. His father was a dockworker, his mother a housewife. White first beg ...
Crossover acts
* Keedie Babb
Keedie Green (née Babb, 21 October 1982, Wolverhampton) is a British classical crossover soprano
with a vocal range of three octaves, reaching a top A above a top E.
Background
She was named Keedie because her father is a fan of Kiki Dee.
...
* Sarah Brightman
* Celtic Tenors
* Celtic Woman
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* Keith Emerson
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* Giorgia Fumanti
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* Lesley Garrett
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Early life
Garrett was born in the ...
* Jane Gilchrist
* John Wilson Orchestra
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* Myleene Klass
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* Libera
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* Libera (mythology), a Roman goddess of fertility
* Libera (choir), a boy vocal group from London
* ''Libera'' (film), a 1993 comedy film
* "Libera" (song), a song by Italian artist Mia Martini
* ''Libera'' (gastropod), a ...
* Mediæval Bæbes
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* Maksim Mrvica
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* Nigel Kennedy Quintet
* The Planets
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* Anoushka Shankar
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* Wild
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Common meanings
* Wild animal
* Wilderness, a wild natural environment
* Wildness, the quality of being wild or untamed
Art, media and entertainment Film and television
* ''Wild'' (2014 film), a 2014 A ...
Catalogue series
* 100 Best (6-CD budget series)
* 20th Century Classics series (2-CD)
American Classics
* Black Boxes (Virgin Classics 5-CD budget series)
British Composers
* Debut (developing artist series)
* Encore (1-CD budget series)
EMI Masters
EMI - The Home of Opera
* Gemini (2-CD 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 (3-CD budget series from EMI UK)
* Recommends Series (Gramophone / Penguin Guide recommended series from EMI UK)
* Références (historical series from EMI France)
* Rouge et Noir (2-CD mid price series from EMI France)
* The Classics (Virgin Classics budget series)
* Triples (3-CD budget series)
* Veritas (Virgin Classics original instrument recordings)
* Virgin de Virgin
* Virgo (Virgin Classics budget series)
See also
*Lists of record labels
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References
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