* PERIOD INSTRUMENT/AUTHENTIC PERFORMANCE RECORDING LABELS

Authentic performance recording labels (or sublabels) are listed in bolded red type below.

 

*ABC Classics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) -- Antipodes
    (See http://shop.abc.net.au/ also.)

*Accent (website or here) (Heidelberg, Germany)

*Agorá -- BaroqueWay (Italy)

*Alia Vox (website) (Spain) -- an independent label featuring performancesaliavox.jpg (2617 bytes) by the gambist Jordi Savall and the soprano Montserrat Figueras (including Savall's ensembles: Hespèrion XX, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, and Le Concert des Nations).  

 

*Alpha Productions (website and here) [Paris, France] -- recording label for the ensemble "Le Poème Harmonique" (Director: Vincent Dumestre)

*Amarilli Classical (website) [UK] -- records early music on period instruments and contemporary music composed for and played on period instruments.

*Ambronay Records (website) [France]

*Ancient Music Edition (website) [Hamburg, Germany]

*AOL Time Warner 

*Appasionato AG

*ARTS Music -- Authentic Series (Munich, Germany)

*ATMA Classique -- Baroque (Qutremont, Québec, Canada)

*Athene Records (website) (UK)

*Aure Ridenti - The recording label of the Bach-Kantorei

*Bayer Music Group (Germany)

*Cantus (website) -- a Spanish early music label.

*Carlton Classics -- Musick's Monument "...historically accurate recordings of music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras."

*Chandos -- Chaconne (Colchester, UK) -- chaconne.jpg (4474 bytes)The Chaconne sublabel
was founded in 1989.

*Denon -- Aliare (Japan) -- The recording label division of Denon Electronics does not appear to exist anymore.

*Dervorguilla (UK) -- this label is no longer producing new recordings

*Dynamic -- Musica Antica (Genoa, Italy)

*E lucevan le Stelle Records (translation: "And the Stars Shined Records") (website) (Pesaro, Italy) -- Directed by keyboard player, Marco Mencoboni, they have been recording, over the last 5 years, 17th-century music associated with the Italian Marches region. (Involves the ensemble: "Sacro & Profano".)

*Early-Music.com  (website) (Canada)

*Edition Lilac (website) (Atlanta, Georgia)

*EMI Group plc ("Electric and Musical Industries") 

*enchiriadis (website) -- recording label for Musica Ficta, Ensemble Fontegara, et al. (Spain)

*Ex cathedra Records (website) (New York City, New York)

*Flora (website)

*Fnac Music -- Musique à Versailles (France) (Note: See Virgin Classics for more information about Fnac re-releases.)

*FOCUS - Produced by the University of Indiana's Early Music Institute. Initiated by Thomas Binckley; distributed through Albany Music Distributors.

*Fonitcetra -- Antiqua

*Gimell Records (website) -- Recording label founded in 1981 by producer Steve C Smith and Peter Phillips to record The Tallis Scholars. Philips Classics had previously acquired a majority shareholding in Gimell Records. However, in May 2000, following Philips merger with Universal, Gimell severed its business relationship with Universal and re-established itsself as an independent recording label.

*Giulia Digital -- Musica Antiqua

*Glossa Music (website) (Spain) -- Recently signed Le Concert Spirtuel and Hervé Niquet. Includes The Grand Tour -- An exclusive production and recording house for Frans Brüggen's The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. (A co-production with Glossa Music.)

*Hungaroton Classics -- Antiqua (Budapest, Hungary) (NOTE: Hungaroton no longer releases new "authentic" recordings on the Antiqua sublabel. Rather, new performances have been "mainstreamed" with their "Classics" label.)

*K617 -- Les Chemins du Baroque (website) (France)

*Laborie Classique (website) (France)

*Lauda (website) (Spain)

*Lyrichord Early Music Series (website)

*Musica Omnia (website) (Cambridge, Massachusetts) -- first releases in the Summer of 2001.

*Musica Oscura (Anthony Rooley's recording label)

*Naïve (France)  (NOTE: Naïve purchased the Auvidis label circa 2000. In August 2000 Naïve also purchased the Opus 111 label -- see below.)

 

*Nannerl Recordings (website) -- private recording label for the "Ars Femina" ensemble.

*Noyse Productions (website) -- home of recordings by The King’s Noyse.

*Nuova Era Records -- Ancient Music (Torino, Italy)

*Obsidian Records (website)

*ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk) -- Edition Alte Musik (Austria)

*Paradizo (website)

*Passacaille (website) (Brugge, Belgium) -- label of Paul Dombrecht's ensemble "Il Fondamento". Also includes other early music soloiosts and the ensembles such as Octophoros, Les Enemis Confus, and Capilla Flamenca (vocal)

*PGM (Pro Gloria Musicae) (website) -- it appears that some of these recordings (since the premature passing of Gabe Weiner) are being re-released by Dorian Recordings.

*PNEUMA (website) -- formed by Eduardo Paniagua in 1994 with the goal of interpreting and recording the entire "Cantigas of Santa Maria" manuscript attributed to Alfonso X, the Wise (that singular poet king) together with contemporary music of the Jews and Muslims.  The Musica Antigua - Eduardo Paniagua ensemble is featured. North American distributor: JMS Classical Imports. Also available from Musical Offering. (Spain)

*Pony Canyon

*Ramée (Großschwabhausen, Germany)

*Raumklang (Leipzig, Germany)

*René Gailly Productions -- Vox Temporis Productions -- Period Instruments - VTP founded by Florian Heyerick (director of L'orchestre baroque le Mercure Galant) in 1990  (Belgium)

*Ricercar (website)

*Sanctuary Classics (London, UK) gaudeamus.jpg (19136 bytes)

* Saydisc -- Amon Ra (Gloucestershire, England)

*Signum Records (website) (London, UK)

*Soli Deo Gloria from Monteverdi Productions (website) -- recording label of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, and The English Baroque Soloists.

*Sony BMG Music Entertainment - a 2005 merger of Sony Classical and BMG Classics.

*Stradivarius -- Dulcimer (Milan, Italy) Some of the earlier recordings (e.g., with the flutist Ferrarini and/or the Quartetto di Salisburgo) were performed on modern instruments. (Specifically, the following Dulcimer recordings were performed on modern instruments: STR 33310 Cambini, STR 33327 Cambini, STR 33328 Cambini, STR 33331 Briccialdi, STR 33346 Platti-Dall'Abaco-Hasse-Sammartini, STR 33362 Beethoven, STR 33370 Beethoven-Schubert-Donizetti, STR 33385 Gragnani, STR 33397 Bottesini)

*Studio Matous -- Authentic (Czech Republic)

*Supraphon -- Musica Antiqua Bohemica (Prague, Czech Republic)

*Symphonía (Italy) -- the "Moderna" sublabel features performances on modern instruments.

*Teknon Early Masters (website) (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

*Thorofon - Capella (Wedemark, Germany)

*Titanic Records (website) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) -- founded in 1973 by Ralph Dopmeyer

*Unacorda (website) -- (Spain)

*Universal Musical Group (German website) (Austrian website)

*Wildboar (website) (Berkeley, CA)

* Several labels offer recordings of musical groups employing period instruments; however, no special "period performance" label/sublabel exists. These recording companies include:

 

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