Channel Classics Records
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Channel Classics Records is a record label from the Netherlands, specializing in classical music
. The managing director and producer is C. Jared Sacks, who grew up in Boston. Sacks was schooled as a professional horn player
at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music
and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam
. With fifteen years of experience in making music, Sacks decided to turn his hobby of making musical recordings into his work in 1987. The record label started in 1990 and was called after the street where he lived at the time, the Kanaalstraat in Amsterdam.
In 2006, Channel Classics began releasing records in Super Audio CD
format by Chinese artists, including the China National Symphony Orchestra
.
Channel Classics Records released music from musicians like Iván Fischer
and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
, Dejan Lazić
, Lavinia Meijer
, Rachel Podger
and Candida Thompson
.
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
. The managing director and producer is C. Jared Sacks, who grew up in Boston. Sacks was schooled as a professional horn player
Horn (instrument)
The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, located on the campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, was founded in 1865 and is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Students of Oberlin Conservatory enter a very broad network within the music world, as the school's alumni...
and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Conservatorium van Amsterdam
The Conservatorium van Amsterdam is a Dutch academy of music located in Amsterdam. This school is the music division of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, the city's vocational university of arts...
. With fifteen years of experience in making music, Sacks decided to turn his hobby of making musical recordings into his work in 1987. The record label started in 1990 and was called after the street where he lived at the time, the Kanaalstraat in Amsterdam.
In 2006, Channel Classics began releasing records in Super Audio CD
Super Audio CD
Super Audio CD is a high-resolution, read-only optical disc for audio storage. Sony and Philips Electronics jointly developed the technology, and publicized it in 1999. It is designated as the Scarlet Book standard. Sony and Philips previously collaborated to define the Compact Disc standard...
format by Chinese artists, including the China National Symphony Orchestra
China National Symphony Orchestra
The China National Symphony Orchestra is China's national orchestra....
.
Channel Classics Records released music from musicians like Iván Fischer
Iván Fischer
Iván Fischer is a Hungarian conductor and composer. Born in Budapest into a Jewish musical family, Fischer initially studied piano, violin, cello and composition in Budapest...
and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
Budapest Festival Orchestra
The Budapest Festival Orchestra was formed in 1983 by Iván Fischer and Zoltán Kocsis, with musicians "drawn from the cream of Hungary's younger players", as The Times put it...
, Dejan Lazić
Dejan Lazic
Dejan Lazić is a Croatian pianist and composer, and a naturalised Austrian citizen.He is quickly establishing a reputation worldwide as “a brilliant pianist and a gifted musician full of ideas and able to project them persuasively” .The New York Times hailed his performance as “.....
, Lavinia Meijer
Lavinia Meijer
Lavinia Meijer is a Dutch harpist.-Education:When she was 11 years old, Lavinia was accepted by Erika Waardenburg to study at the Young Talent Department of the Utrecht Conservatory...
, Rachel Podger
Rachel Podger
Rachel Podger is an English violinist specialising in the performance of baroque music. She often conducts baroque orchestras from the violin, and in 2004 took up a guest directorship with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, having previously been leader of The English Concert from 1997 to...
and Candida Thompson
Candida Thompson
-Biography:Candida Thompson was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She has been living in Amsterdam since 1992. She studied with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she received her soloist's graduation diploma with honour. She developed her qualities further at the...
.