Cedille Records () is the

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of the Chicago Classical Recording Foundation.

History

In 1989, James Ginsburg, the son of

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, founded Cedille Records as a for-profit classical music recording company featuring Chicago-area musicians. Ginsburg's vision for Cedille was "to record local musicians overlooked by the major labels." Cedille is the only Chicago-based classical label since Mercury Living Presence in the 1950s. In 1994, Cedille was transformed into a not-for-profit record label under the umbrella of the Chicago Classical Recording Foundation. The label's releases included ''The Pulitzer Project'', an album featuring Chicago's

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which includes two world premier recordings: William Schuman's "

A Free Song Secular Cantata No. 2: ''A Free Song'' (October 16, 1942) is a cantata for chorus and orchestra by William Schuman, using text by Walt Whitman, that was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1943, after it was premiered by the Boston Symp ...

" (Pulitzer 1943) and Leo Sowerby's "

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" (Pulitzer 1946).

Awards and honors

Several CDs released on the label have won or been nominated for

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s. In 2004 ''Brahms & Joachim Violin Concertos'' was nominated for the

Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes: *In 1959 the award was known as Best Engineered Record (Classical) *From 1960 to 1962 it was awarded as Best Enginee ...

and in 2005 ''Robert Kurka Symphonic Works'' was nominated in the same category. In 2008 the ensemble eighth blackbird won the

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance The Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by ma ...

for their album ''strange imaginary animals''. In the same year, Judith Sherman won the

Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical The Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical is an honor presented to record producers for quality classical music productions at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honor ...

for her work with the label. ''strange imaginary animals'' was included among her production credits along with Jennifer Koh's album ''String Poetic'', which was nominated in the Best Chamber Music Performance category in the same year. In 2009, Ursula Oppens' album ''Oppens Plays Carter'' was nominated for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) in 2009. Most of those nominated for Grammy Awards and an additional thirty-one albums released on the label have received Classics Today's highest rating, 10/10. The song "Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera" from ''A Vivaldi Concert'' was featured in the documentary ''Pale Male'', an episode of the documentary series ''Nature'' on PBS.

Roster

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* Kim Scholes * Rembrandt Chamber Players * Patrice Michaels * Georgia Mangos and Louise Mangos *

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* Chicago Chamber Musicians * Chicago Baroque Ensembles * Paul Freeman *

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* Encore Chamber Orchestra * His Majestie's Clerkes * Patrick Sinozich *

Alex Klein Alex Klein (born 1964, Porto Alegre) is an oboist who began his musical studies in his native Brazil at the age of nine, and made his solo orchestral debut the following year. At the age of eleven he was invited to join the Camerata Antigua, one o ...

* Mary Stolper *

Wendy Warner Wendy Warner is a cellist from Chicago, Illinois. She performs both as a soloist with major orchestras and as a chamber musician around the world. Career Wendy Warner is one of the world's leading cellists, praised by Strings magazine for her � ...

* Chicago Pro Musica *

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* Prague Chamber Chorus * Gaudete Brass Quintet *

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* New Budapest Orpheum Society * eighth blackbird * Amelia Trio * Recho Uchida * Jorge Federico Osorio *

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* Charles Pickler * Gary Stucka *

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* Orion Ensemble * Elizabeth Buccheri * Cavatina Duo * Matthew Hagle * Trio Settecento * Biava Quartet *

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* William Ferris Chorale * Composer Festival Orchestra * Richard Young *

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Jennifer Larmore Jennifer Larmore (born June 21, 1958) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer, particularly noted for her performances in coloratura and bel canto roles which she has performed in the world's major opera houses.Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Lau ...

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Ursula Oppens Ursula Oppens (born February 2, 1944) is an American classical concert pianist and educator. She has received five Grammy Award nominations. Biography Ursula Oppens was born on February 2, 1944, in New York City into a highly musical family fr ...

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* Baroque Band *

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* Irina Nuzova * Kuang Hao-Huang * New Brandenburg Collegium

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