Channel Classics Records
Specializing in classical music, the Dutch label Channel Classics Records was founded in 1990 by C.Jared Sacks, a young American born in Boston, Massachusetts. Sacks obtained a complete musical education (receiving lessons on trumpet, piano, composition and conducting) at Oberlin Conservatory and then at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, alongside gaining fifteen years of experience as a hornist.Then, in 1987, Sacks decided to focus more fully on his long-time hobby, sound recording, a passion that had driven him for many years. Due to his frustration at the fact that many classical interpretations were not as well recorded as he wished them to be, he decided to create his own label. Sacks employed a name inspired by the ‘Kanaalstraat’, the name of the street on which he lived.
C. Jared Sacks now runs the label with his wife, Lydi Groenewegen. The pair are constantly concerned with obtaining the highest quality of sound, providing unflinching support for their artists, but also affording them a complete freedom to which the artists respond with reciprocal fidelity. Amongst the noteworthy figures on the label, one can discover the work of Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Rachel Podger, Johannette Zomer, Florilegium, Candida Thompson, Pieter Wispelwey, and the Netherlands Bach Society...
C. Jared Sacks believes that the overall benefit provided by the use of SACD stereo / multichannel is so great that, since 2006, he has converted more than 140 CDs from his catalogue into this format. Read more
Specializing in classical music, the Dutch label Channel Classics Records was founded in 1990 by C.Jared Sacks, a young American born in Boston, Massachusetts. Sacks obtained a complete musical education (receiving lessons on trumpet, piano, composition and conducting) at Oberlin Conservatory and then at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, alongside gaining fifteen years of experience as a hornist.
Then, in 1987, Sacks decided to focus more fully on his long-time hobby, sound recording, a passion that had driven him for many years. Due to his frustration at the fact that many classical interpretations were not as well recorded as he wished them to be, he decided to create his own label. Sacks employed a name inspired by the ‘Kanaalstraat’, the name of the street on which he lived.
C. Jared Sacks now runs the label with his wife, Lydi Groenewegen. The pair are constantly concerned with obtaining the highest quality of sound, providing unflinching support for their artists, but also affording them a complete freedom to which the artists respond with reciprocal fidelity. Amongst the noteworthy figures on the label, one can discover the work of Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Rachel Podger, Johannette Zomer, Florilegium, Candida Thompson, Pieter Wispelwey, and the Netherlands Bach Society...
C. Jared Sacks believes that the overall benefit provided by the use of SACD stereo / multichannel is so great that, since 2006, he has converted more than 140 CDs from his catalogue into this format.
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Vivaldi : 12 Violin Concertos - "La Cetra", Op. 9 (Holland Baroque Society, Rachel Podger)
Holland Baroque
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 3/07/2015
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Bartók Bound, Vol. 2: String Quartets Nos. 3, 5 & 6
Ragazze Quartet
Chamber Music - Released by Channel Classics Records on 12/11/2021
Ragazze Quartet tells us: "Five years ago, we declared ourselves Bartók Bound. In so doing, we committed ourselves for an unlimited period to the fasc ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach : Double & Triple Concertos
Rachel Podger
Concertos - Released by Channel Classics Records on 13/05/2013
Prise de Son d'ExceptionChoc de ClassicaDiapason d'orHi-Res AudioThere are numerous recordings of Bach's concertos avec plusieurs instruments, or with several instruments, as he called them. Posterity has labeled th ...
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Rosanne Philippens plays Haydn & Stravinsky with The Vondel String
Rosanne Philippens
Concertos - Released by Channel Classics Records on 24/09/2021
For both classical musicians and classical musicians, it’s pretty hard to think of an upside to the past period of Covid-themed havoc. However if ther ...
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Mahler : Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (Lisa Miln - Birgit Remmert - The Hungarian Radio Choir - Budapest Festival Orchestra - Iván Fischer)
Iván Fischer
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 10/10/2006
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Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo
Rachel Podger
Violin Solos - Released by Channel Classics Records on 8/06/1999
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Gustav Mahler : Symphony n° 1 (Budapest Festival Orchestra - Iván Fischer)
Iván Fischer
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 1/08/2012
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Formidable! (French Chansons)
Thomas Oliemans
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Channel Classics Records on 29/10/2021
The list of singers from the classical sphere who can put popular songs across well is quite a bit shorter than one might think. Renée Fleming, who ha ...
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Dutch Hidden Gems
Dana Zemtsov
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 11/02/2022
This programme is a wonderful little treasure chest overflowing with musical gems for the viola, all composed in Holland in the twentieth century. Eve ...
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Gustav Mahler : Symphony no.5
Iván Fischer
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 10/10/2013
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Vivaldi: 12 Concertos, Op. 3 "L'Estro Armonico"
Rachel Podger
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 10/03/2015
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Shaping Chopin: Waltzes, Mazurkas, Nocturnes
Anna Fedorova
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 27/08/2021
Anna Fedorova is at home in the Romantic period, she knows it’s repertoire inside out and has proven this several times. In addition to previous recor ...
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Mendelssohn : Incidental Music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Iván Fischer
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 22/06/2018
4F de TéléramaWith one of the very best orchestras in the world, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, one of today’s most fascinating conductor, Iván Fischer, offers on ...
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Bach: Sonatas and Partitas Vol. 2 (Rachel Podger)
Rachel Podger
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 1/01/1999
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Shostakovich - Weinberg : Cello Concertos
Nicolas Altstaedt
Cello Concertos - Released by Channel Classics Records on 8/04/2016
5 de DiapasonIt is particularly fortunate to see Franco-German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt on a record label that will finally allow him to nurture his whimsical per ...
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Chamber Music from Theresienstadt - Klein & Ullmann (Hawthorne String Quartet)
Hawthorne String Quartet
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 21/09/2007
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Heinrich Biber : Rosary Sonatas
Rachel Podger
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 27/09/2015
Choc de Classica5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikThe Rosary Sonatas of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704), a cycle formed of fifteen sonatas for violin with basso continuo and a passacaglia f ...
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Beethoven: Rondino & Wind Octet - Mozart: Serenade
MIB Wind Ensemble
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 28/01/2022
This is the first recording on Channel Classics with the Italian based MIB Ensemble. Compromising the best players from the top orchestras of Italy, t ...
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Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Iván Fischer
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 4/09/2020
Founded in 1983 by Iván Fischer and Zoltán Kocsis, the Budapest Festival Orchestra has quickly cemented itself as one of the best formations in the wo ...
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Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 4 in G Major (Budapest Festival Orchestra - Iván Fischer - Miah Persson)
Iván Fischer
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 15/03/2009
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Paganini: 24 Caprices + 1
Ning Feng
Classical - Released by Channel Classics Records on 22/01/2021
On one hand, it's a testament to the modern tuition of violin technique that Paganini's 24 Caprices are widely played. In his time, they were outlandi ...
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