Delos Productions is an American
record label
"Big Three" music labels
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. Long in Los Angeles but now headquartered in
Sonoma, California
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, it specializes in
classical music
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. The Delos label was founded in 1973 by Amelia S. Haygood (1919–2007), whose stewardship of the company made her a prominent figure in the classical recording industry.
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/ref> She named the label after the Greek island of Delos
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, the birthplace of the Sun god Apollo
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, who brought music and healing to the world. The company's current director is Carol Rosenberger, an American pianist who recorded over 30 CDs for Delos in a career spanning more than three decades.
In November 2023 the Label was acquired by the Belgian classical music and jazz publisher Outhere Music.
Recording history
Delos has made recordings of such ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra
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, the London Symphony Orchestra
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, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
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History
The orchestra tr ...
, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra
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, the New York Chamber Symphony, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
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, Voices of Ascension, the Shanghai Quartet
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, the Brazilian Guitar Quartet; and of artists such as Arleen Auger
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, James DePreist
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, Marina Domashenko, Olga Guryakova, Renée Fleming
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, Dmitri Hvorostovsky
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Early life and education
Hvorostovsky was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia during a time when the city was mostly closed to foreigner ...
, Sondra Radvanovsky
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, Dennis Keene, Nina Kotova
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, Constantine Orbelian, Ewa Podleś
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, Jean-Pierre Rampal
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, Clara Rockmore
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Life and ...
, Gerard Schwarz
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, David Shifrin
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Biography
David Shifrin received early musical training at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in 1963. He attended the Music Academy of the West sum ...
, Joshua Smith, János Starker
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, Andrew von Oeyen, Eugenia Zukerman and Mark Abel.
The company was one of the earliest classical labels to embrace digital recording
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, in 1979 beginning a collaboration with scientist Thomas Stockham
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, inventor of the Soundstream digital recording process. Many recordings are credited to John M. Eargle (1931–2007), a Grammy winner and Delos’ longtime Chief Engineer,[Garry Margolis, "John M. Eargle Dies, ]Musical America
''Musical America'' is the oldest American magazine on classical music, first appearing in 1898 in print and in 1999 online magazine, online, at musicalamerica.com. It is published by Performing Arts Resources, LLC, of East Windsor, New Jersey.
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", May 16, 2007 and the production team of Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz.
Since 2008, Delos recordings have been distributed worldwide through Naxos Records
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.
References
External links
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Delos Store/Catalog"Amelia Haygood, 1919–2007"
by Jason Serinus (25 March 2007)
by Margalit Fox, ''The New York Times
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'' (29 March 2007)
American record labels
Classical music record labels
Record labels established in 1973
1973 establishments in California
Companies based in Sonoma County, California
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