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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Where is Home / Hae ke Kae
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 23/09/2022
QobuzissimeHome, for cellist Abel Selaocoe, is Sebokeng, a township to the south of Johannesburg, South Africa. But home means many things for Selaocoe, whether ...
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Vivaldi: Stabat Mater
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 18/03/2022
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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Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 14/01/2022
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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Pure Maria Callas - Callas Remastered
Opera Extracts - Released by Warner Classics on 22/09/2014
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Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 3/06/2022
Fresko aus Vogelgesang und Orgelregistern: Pianist Bertrand Chamayou spielt Messiaens Vingt Regards ein „Es ist wie ein gigantisches Fresko, eine Art ...
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J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 25/11/2022
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Bach: Goldberg Variations
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 11/02/2022
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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Eternal Heaven
Thomas Dunford, Jupiter, Lea Desandre, Iestyn Davies
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 18/11/2022
It’s hard to imagine a better cast than the two stunning voices of mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and countertenor Iestyn Davies, who take this ambitious ...
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Saint-Saëns: Complete Symphonies
Cristian Măcelaru, Orchestre National de France
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 5/11/2021
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: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (Remastered)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Christoph Prégardien, Matthias Goerne
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Warner Classics on 1/01/2001
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Cinema
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 21/10/2022
Pianist Alexandre Tharaud has offered a praiseworthy variety of recordings, ranging from Bach and Rameau to contemporary music, jazz, and now a double ...
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Beethoven & Stravinsky: Violin Concertos
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 14/10/2022
Vilde Frang juxtaposes Beethoven's epic, lyrical work with Stravinsky's compact Violin Concerto, which pays spiky tribute to 18th century models. The ...
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Schumann : The Four Symphonies
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 1/08/1993
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyChoc de ClassicaDiapason d'orIn 1973 the recording of an opera by Wagner, which Wolfgang Sawallisch was to perform in Dresden for Electrola/EMI, was canceled. By mutual agreement, ...
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Handel: Theodora, HWV 68
Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Il pomo d’oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 28/10/2022
Diapason d'orStudio recordings of opera and oratorio are not so common these days, and the Erato label took a chance with this one, bringing in big-name singers, r ...
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Mozart : Don Giovanni (2016 Remastered)
Full Operas - Released by Warner Classics on 1/01/1992
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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Mozart x 3
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 28/01/2022
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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Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85 & Sea Pictures, Op. 37
Jacqueline du Pré, (Dame) Janet Baker, Sir John Barbirolli, London Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 1/01/1965
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Romantic Piano Masters
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 26/08/2022
The title Romantic Piano Masters suggests an album of favorites and doesn't really give an idea of the contents of this release by pianist Mariam Bats ...
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Mozart : Complete Piano Sonatas
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 30/09/2016
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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Bach & Handel
Sabine Devieilhe, Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 5/11/2021
"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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Sensations
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 4/11/2022
The crossover album is not quite as highly developed a genre in France as it is in Britain and the U.S., but cellist Gautier Capuçon is having great s ...
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