Titanic Records
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Titanic Records is a record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 founded in 1973
1973 in music
-January–April:*January 9 – Mick Jagger's request for a Japanese visa is rejected on account of a 1969 drug conviction, putting an abrupt end to The Rolling Stones' plans to perform in Japan during their forthcoming tour.*January 14...

 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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, USA. It was one of the pioneers in the recording of early music
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...

 on period instrument
Historically informed performance
Historically informed performance is an approach in the performance of music and theater. Within this approach, the performance adheres to state-of-the-art knowledge of the aesthetic criteria of the period in which the music or theatre work was conceived...

s. During the LP era, Titanic released nearly a hundred recordings, including performances by such world-famous artists as Mieczyslaw Horszowski
Mieczyslaw Horszowski
Mieczysław Horszowski was a Polish-American pianist who had the longest known career in the history of the performing arts.-Early life:...

, John Gibbons, Joel Cohen, and Malcom Bilson.

Now a division of Sirius Music, Inc., based in New York City
New York City
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, Titanic is expanding its CD catalog to include music of all periods, while maintaining its commitment to early music and periodically reissuing
Reissue
A reissue is the repeated issue of a published work. In common usage, it refers to an album which has been released at least once before and is released again, sometimes with alterations or additions....

titles from the LP list.
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