Sony Classical Records
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Sony Classical is an American record label founded in 1924 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records. In 1980, the Columbia Masterworks label was renamed as CBS Masterworks Records. The CBS Records Group was acquired by Sony in 1988, and in 1990 it was renamed Sony Classical.[1]
Artists
Sony Classical has represented artists including:
- Alexis Ffrench
- Yo-Yo Ma
- Igor Levit
- Jonas Kaufmann
- Glenn Gould
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Joshua Bell
- Hans Zimmer
- John Williams
- Khatia Buniatishvili
- Arthur Rubinstein
- Eugene Ormandy
- Leonard Bernstein
- Teodor Currentzis
- Arcadi Volodos
- Christian Gerhaher
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Christoph Koncz
- Ivo Pogorelich
- Martin Fröst
- Leif Ove Andsnes
- Lavinia Meijer
- Rachel Willis-Sørensen
- Mao Fujita
- Pablo Ferrández
- Miloš Karadaglić
- Attacca Quartet
- Hayato Sumino
- Danny Elfman
Presidents
- 1997: Peter Gelb[2] (NY)
- 2009–2019: Bogdan Roscic[3][4]
- 2019: Per Hauber[5]