Pentatone (record label)

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Pentatone
Founded2001 (2001)
FounderDirk van Dijk, Job Maarse, and Giel Bessels
GenreClassical
Country of originNetherlands
LocationBaarn
Official websitepentatonemusic.com

Pentatone (stylized as PENTATONE) is an international classical music label located in Baarn, Netherlands.

History

Three former executives of Philips Classics, Giel Bessels, Dirk van Dijk and Job Maarse, established the label in 2001.

Máxima Zorreguieta.[2]
The album, “The Music from the Royal Wedding”, sold more than 75,000 copies, thereby attaining the unique “triple platinum” status.

The label has also licensed recordings made by other labels such as

stereo on conventional compact disc
players.

In 2013, a new management team joined Pentatone and the label expanded to multiple formats releases, including regular cd, vinyl, and all formats for streaming and downloads. The first vinyl was released in 2017 as a luxury 3LP edition. The label decided to honour Julia Fischer's Bach violin solo recordings (originally released by the label in 2005).

In April 2022, Pentatone appointed Sean Hickey as managing director, succeeding Simon M Eder.[3][4] The following month it was announced that Pentatone had been acquired by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.[5]

Awards

Pentatone’s former managing director, Simon Eder, collects the Gramophone's 2019 Label of the Year Award

In 2004, the label received a

Grammy Award as Best Opera Recording and Best Engineered Album.[6][7]

In 2019 Pentatone's premiere recording of the

61st Grammy Awards. Among the winners were composer Mason Bates, librettist Mark Campbell, the Santa Fe Opera, conductor Michael Christie, and the cast, which included Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edward Parks, Garrett Sorenson, Wei Wu, and Elizabeth Ostrow. The opera was nominated for Best Contemporary Composition but lost to the Kernis Violin Concerto.[8]

In 2019, the label was awarded Label of the Year by the Gramophone Magazine.[9] In 2020, Pentatone won the title of Label of the Year in the International Classical Music Awards.[10]In 2024, four albums received GRAMMY nominations in four different categories.

Artists

Piano

Cello

Violin

Guitar

Clarinet

Mandolin

Soprano

Mezzo-Soprano

Countertenor

Tenor

Conductors

Ensembles

Orchestras

Composers

Catalogue series

  • Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg series
  • AMERICAN OPERAS Series
  • Dances Series
  • REMASTERED CLASSICS Philips Classics
  • PENTATONE Oxingale Series
  • REMASTERED CLASSICS Deutsche Grammophon
  • RQR Series

References

  1. ^ a b c Karl Erik Sylthe (2014-03-19). "PENTATONE - A portrait of an audiophile record label". Audiophile (Norway). Retrieved 2018-06-23.
  2. ^ a b Max Delissen (2015-02-02). "PENTATONE: Liefde poor Klassieke Muziek en Techniek". HiFi (Netherlands). Retrieved 2018-06-23.
  3. ^ Salazar, David (2022-04-07). "PENTATONE Announces New Managing Director". OperaWire. Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  4. ^ "Sean Hickey Appointed Managing Director". Pentatone Music BV. 2022-04-05. Archived from the original on 2022-07-01. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  5. ^ "San Francisco Conservatory acquires Pentatone record label". The Strad. 2022-05-09. Archived from the original on 2022-05-09. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  6. ^ BWW News Desk. "THE GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES Wins Grammy Awards for Best Opera Recording and Best Engineered Album, Classical". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
  7. ISSN 0458-3035
    . Retrieved 2018-01-12.
  8. ^ "'The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs' Wins The Grammy". 2019-02-10. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
  9. ^ "Label of the Year". Gramophone. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  10. ^ "Winners 2020". ICMA (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-18.

External links

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