The Bach Guild See --> Omega
Balkan Records
A label that mostly re-releases recordings put out by the old Balkan Records Co., that is "Balkan folk music", note that this is Balkan in the American sense, i.e. USA folk music with Balkan influences rather than folk music from the Balkans. Also has some Baltic influenced folk music, OTR, nostalgia and novelty recordings. Run by Esoteric Sound. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CC, CD.
Bassic Sounds
German jazz label. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Bastet Recordings See --> Cat's Heaven
Bauer Studios
Primarily a production house and a recording studio in Ludwigsburg in Germany but does put out classical music under the Animato label, brass band music under the B-ton label, jazz under the Chaos Records label and religious classical music using the Sacral label. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Bayer Records
One of the bigger fully independent classical music labels out there, big enough to have a mid and budget price lines as well as the more standard full price releases, wide range of works and also publishes compilations and historical recordings. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
BBC Legends See --> IMG Artists
BBC Opus Arte See --> Opus Arte
BBC Worldwide
The company typically licences it's in-house recordings to a variety of labels for release but the company is increasingly commercialising those recordings itself, publishes under a variety of labels but the most interesting is probably the BBC Radio Collection subimprint that publishes popular radio shows. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CC, CD, DVD, VHS.
Beggars Banquet
One of Britain's largest independent record companies, along with output done under their own name they also release or have released under the City Beat, Don't Fall Off The Mountain, MoWax, Placebo, Situation 2, XL and 4AD. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, DVD.
Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG)
The worlds largest record company, publishes any kind of music under a variety of labels including Artista that publishes mostly pop and rock music originationg from the USA, BMG Classics, Jive, J-Records, RCA and BNA. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, DVD, LP, VHS.
BIS
Swedish classical label that in addition to the usual has a large catalogue of modern and Scandinavian recordings. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Blue Danube
Austrian classical label. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Blue Note
USA based jazz, blues and r&b label that is also active in France, part of the EMI group. Also issues under the Capitol Jazz, Mosaic, Pacific Jazz and Roulette Jazz labels. French hompage. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Blue Thumb See --> GRP
Blue Room
Small UK label that issues electronica and dance music. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, LP.
BMG Ariola Classics
An arm of the Bertelsmann group that releases classical music, jazz and "world music". Includes the Ariola, Arte Nove, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and RCA Red Label . Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
BNA See --> Bertelsmann Music Group
Bongiovanni
Italian classical label, puts emphasis on opera and other vocal works, on Italian composers and is especially known for their historical recordings even though they do have a quite a varied catalogue including a nice selection of early music. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Bravo See --> Hungaroton
B-ton See --> Bauer Studios
Bullseye See --> Rounder Records
Buzz See --> Challenge
Cadence
USA based, originally a jazz magazine but releases their own recordings under 2 imprints namely generic jazz music as Cadence Jazz Records and imprvised jass as Creative Improvised Music Projects label. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Cadenza
A small classical record company based in Karlsruhe in Germany that offers a very interesting catalogue of 20th century works. No official homepage but the link that follows points to a page that one of their distributors holds out. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Cala Records
UK based classical and historical label, publishes mostly mid price disks but also a few full and budget titles. Owns the United Recordings catalogue. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Candescence See --> Rykodisc
Canyon Records
USA based label, specialises in releasing recordings by native American artists. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Capitol See --> EMI
Capitol Jazz See --> Blue Note Records
Capriccio See --> Delta Music
Carbon Recordings
Small audiophile label specialising in jazz and classical music run by Van Den Hul, uses a typical minimalist recording techniques and get it's name from the carbon based cables used in the recording process, there has not been a lot of activity surrounding this label lately as Mr. VdH has been sponsoring the releases by Pentatone Classics rather than spend time on recording for his own company. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Caroline Records See --> EMI
Castle Music See --> Sanctuary
Cat's Heaven
Tiny industrial music label, also publishes under the Bastet Recordings, Jeremy Bamber Tapes, MFW, VUZ and Spirit Of Sound labels. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CC, CD, CDR.
CBS See --> Sony Music
CCn'C
Small German label that publishes world music, jazz and modern "classical" music. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Cedille Records
US label based in Chicago, classical music often unusual or rare works and great recordings but use of local artists only means that they are not always artistically good enough. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Chaconne See --> Chandos
Challenge
Dutch jazz label, also uses the A-Records, Buzz and Retrieval labels. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe See --> Academy of Sound and Vision (ASV)
Chandos
UK based classical and light music label, some of their releases are notable for their sound quality. Also publish "early music under the under the Chaconne banner, easy listening under the Flyback label and budget CD's using the Collect label. Has released a few classical SACD titles, all of them are multichannel hybrids but only a couple of them are original DSD recordings, the rest are converted from PCM. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Channel Classics
Dutch audiophile classical label. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Chaos Records See --> Bauer Studios
Chesky
Jazz and easy listening music mostly. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, DVDA, SACD.
Chrysalis Records See --> EMI
Cisco Music
USA based company, primarily acts as a distributor but has a small line of jazz oriented disks. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
City Beat See --> Beggars Banquet
Classic Records
US based audiophile releasee label. Classical music, jazz and rock by American artists. Distributed in Germany and Switzerland by Reson Germany. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, DVD, LP.
Classics For Pleasure See --> EMI Classics
Claves Records
Small classical label based in Switzerland. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Claves Records, Trüelweg 14, CH-3600 Thun, Switzerland.
Phone : +41 (0) 33 223 16 49. Fax : +222 80 03. Email cduetschler at claves.ch
Collect See --> Chandos
Colorvox See --> Hungaroton
Columbia See --> Sony Music
Coro
Classical label, mostly early music. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Corona
Tiny German record company that specialises in choral works, no homepage but link points to a distributors page. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Crafty Records
Small independent label, rock/dance oriented. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
CRD Records
A small but long running independent British classical label. Official homepage.
Formats supported : .
Cream See --> Hungaroton
Creative Improvised Music Projects See --> Cadence Jazz Records
Crescendo See --> GNP/Crescendo
Cybele
German audiophile classical label, noticably they have a large range of SACD multichannel audiophile disks but also a series of compliations featuring electronic and electroacoustic compositions unavailable elshewhere. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, DVD, SACD.
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