Warner Classics
Warner Classics and its sister label Erato together comprise one of the world’s leading global classical music recording companies. In 2013, with WMG’s acquisition of Parlophone Label Group, the renowned EMI Classics roster and catalog became part of Warner Classics. The label exclusively records such acclaimed artists as Alison Balsom, Emmanuel Pahud, Sir Antonio Pappano, and distinguished organisations like the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and l’Arpeggiata.
Warner Classics is the custodian of an unrivaled catalogue of recordings by international superstars Nigel Kennedy, Kiri Te Kanawa, Itzhak Perlman, Sir Simon Rattle, André Previn, and Riccardo Muti, and the historic recordings of Mstislav Rostropovich, Maria Callas, Victoria de los Angeles, Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jacqueline du Pré, Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Sir Adrian Boult, and Sir John Barbirolli, as well as the longest-serving artist in the history of the record industry: violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin.
Erato was established in Paris in 1953 with a founding mission to focus on recording French composers and artists, with an emphasis on Renaissance and Baroque music. Over the years, the Erato catalog grew to feature such noted artists as Plácido Domingo, Maxim Vengerov, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Maurice André, Hélène Grimaud, Scott Ross, Marie-Claire Alain, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Susan Graham, and José van Dam. Erato joined the WMG family in 1992. In 2013, Erato was relaunched when the Virgin Classics label became part of WMG through Warner’s acquisition of Parlophone Label Group. Today, Erato records such acclaimed artists as Philippe Jaroussky, Joyce DiDonato, Diana Damrau, the Ébène Quartet, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, and Alexandre Tharaud.
Read moreWarner Classics and its sister label Erato together comprise one of the world’s leading global classical music recording companies. In 2013, with WMG’s acquisition of Parlophone Label Group, the renowned EMI Classics roster and catalog became part of Warner Classics. The label exclusively records such acclaimed artists as Alison Balsom, Emmanuel Pahud, Sir Antonio Pappano, and distinguished organisations like the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and l’Arpeggiata.
Warner Classics is the custodian of an unrivaled catalogue of recordings by international superstars Nigel Kennedy, Kiri Te Kanawa, Itzhak Perlman, Sir Simon Rattle, André Previn, and Riccardo Muti, and the historic recordings of Mstislav Rostropovich, Maria Callas, Victoria de los Angeles, Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jacqueline du Pré, Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Sir Adrian Boult, and Sir John Barbirolli, as well as the longest-serving artist in the history of the record industry: violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin.
Erato was established in Paris in 1953 with a founding mission to focus on recording French composers and artists, with an emphasis on Renaissance and Baroque music. Over the years, the Erato catalog grew to feature such noted artists as Plácido Domingo, Maxim Vengerov, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Maurice André, Hélène Grimaud, Scott Ross, Marie-Claire Alain, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Susan Graham, and José van Dam. Erato joined the WMG family in 1992. In 2013, Erato was relaunched when the Virgin Classics label became part of WMG through Warner’s acquisition of Parlophone Label Group. Today, Erato records such acclaimed artists as Philippe Jaroussky, Joyce DiDonato, Diana Damrau, the Ébène Quartet, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, and Alexandre Tharaud.
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Saint-Saëns: Complete Symphonies
Cristian Măcelaru
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 5 Nov 2021
It is about time that a Parisian orchestra finally turned its attention to recording something other than Debussy and Ravel in the French repertoire t ...
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Bach & Handel
Sabine Devieilhe
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 5 Nov 2021
"It almost felt like we were sneaking in, the Pygmalion ensemble and I, that week in December 2020 as we walked through the great door of the church w ...
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Alla Napoletana
Christina Pluhar
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 29 Oct 2021
Christina Pluhar has the gift of conceiving rich, unique and enchanting programmes. Better still, she knows how to carefully choose the musicians best ...
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Bach, JS: Goldberg Variations
David Fray
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 24 Nov 2021
David Fray, returning to his beloved Johann Sebastian Bach, invites us to join him on a salutary personal journey. His Goldberg Variations is unlike a ...
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Mozart : Complete Piano Sonatas
Fazil Say
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 30 Sep 2016
Prise de Son d'ExceptionChoc Classica de l'annéeChoc de Classica5 de Diapason« [...] Well recorded, in the hall of the Salzburg Mozarteum and on a singing instrument, the pianist-composer returned to Wolfgang Amadeus eighteen y ...
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Vivaldi: Stabat Mater
Jakub Józef Orliński
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 18 Mar 2022
In this new interpretation of Vivaldi’s famous Stabat Mater, hedonism gives way to a pain and suffering that’s uncommon in compositions by this red-he ...
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Rameau: Achante et Céphise
Sabine Devieilhe
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 5 Nov 2021
Many more Rameau operas are available on recordings than there were a generation ago, but new ones are surfacing all the time. A splendid example is A ...
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Pure Maria Callas - Callas Remastered
Maria Callas
Opera Extracts - Released by Warner Classics on 22 Sep 2014
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Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 18 Feb 2022
According to the album sleeve, it took Elisabeth Leonskaya no more than six short days to record Mozart’s seventeen Keyboard sonatas in early 2021. Th ...
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'Round Midnight
Quatuor Ébène
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 1 Oct 2021
True to their natural curiosity, on this their latest album, the four instrumentalists of the Quatuor Ébène bring together two nocturnal masterpieces ...
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Amazone
Lea Desandre
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 17 Sep 2021
Léa Desandre has all the makings of a great star. Noticed when she was only twenty years old by William Christie, crowned "Revelation Lyric Artist" at ...
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Mozart : Don Giovanni (2016 Remastered)
Carlo Maria Giulini
Full Operas - Released by Warner Classics on 1 Jan 1992
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyDiapason d'or' This set... put into the hands of those who have not yet unlocked the paradise of Mozartean opera, is worth... what ? A year at a foreign university ...
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Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (Remastered)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Warner Classics on 1 Jan 2001
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Baritenor
Michael Spyres
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 24 Sep 2021
Usually classified into five practical categories: soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass, the characterisation of the various vocal registers is in ...
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Bach: Goldberg Variations
Jean Rondeau
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 11 Feb 2022
A few weeks after the release of pianist David Fray’s magnificent performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Goldberg Variations, Jean Rondeau’s harp ...
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Pärt: Tabula Rasa
Renaud Capuçon
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 10 Sep 2021
"Arvo Pärt's music takes us from darkness to light", says Renaud Capuçon. "It looks relatively simple on paper, but each note needs to have its own li ...
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Mozart x 3
Elsa Dreisig
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 28 Jan 2022
Louis Langrée’s affinity for Mozart has been renowned ever since he directed the “Mostly Mozart Festival” at the Lincoln Centre in New York with the S ...
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Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25 & 4 Scherzi
Beatrice Rana
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 24 Sep 2021
Beatrice Rana is back with a Chopin album to enchant listeners like never before. A musical prodigy recognised at an young age, the Italian pianist to ...
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Chopin : Nocturnes
Fazil Say
Solo Piano - Released by Warner Classics on 24 Mar 2017
Prise de Son d'Exception4 étoiles Classica5 de DiapasonFazil Say, who made his debut on this label with a very, very well-received work on Mozart’s Complete Piano Sonatas, is now turning his attention to C ...
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Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto
Michael Spyres
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 29 Oct 2021
You can always count on Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre for some serious zing, crackle and pop, and sure enough, their first momentum-fille ...
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Louise Farrenc: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3
Accentus - Laurence Equilbey
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 9 Jul 2021
The time has come at last to rescue the history of music from the male condescension that has relegated female composers to the status of a handful of ...
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