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38-466: The Beaux Arts Trio recorded the entire standard piano trio repertoire. In 2005, the trio celebrated its 50th anniversary with two special CD issues, one featuring their most popular releases through their long years of recording (released by Philips Records ), and the other an anniversary collection of new music (released by Warner Records ). Throughout its existence, the trio was held together by founding pianist Menahem Pressler . The original members of

76-795: A classical ensemble is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Philips Records Philips Records is a record label founded by Dutch electronics company Philips and Dutch - American music corporation Universal Music Group . It was founded as Philips Phonographische Industrie in 1950. In 1946, Philips acquired the company which pressed records for British Decca's Dutch outlet in Amsterdam. The record label originated as "Philips Phonographische Industrie" (PPI) in June 1950 when it began issuing classical music recordings. Recordings were also made of popular artists of multiple nationalities and of classical artists from Germany, France and

114-774: A major label in the world of rock and pop music in the late 1950s until late 1970s. In the UK, Philips developed a strong popular music roster, signing acts like Marty Wilde , Roy Castle , Anne Shelton , the Four Pennies , the Springfields , Dusty Springfield , and the Walker Brothers . The American pop label was launched in 1962 starting with the R&;B single "Gee Baby" by Ben & Bea as well as folk-country, like "Makes You Wanna Sigh" by Ross Legacy in 1969. It signed

152-469: Is now part of Universal Music Group (UMG) since its merger with the UMG family of labels in 1999. Deutsche Grammophon is the world's oldest surviving established record company. Presidents of the company are Frank Briegmann, Chairman and CEO Central Europe of Universal Music Group and Clemens Trautmann. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft was founded in 1898 by German-born United States citizen Emile Berliner as

190-480: The Berlin Philharmonic for sale in the new medium in 1983, the first recording being Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie . Deutsche Grammophon has a huge back catalogue of notable recordings. The company was reissuing a portion of it in its Originals series; compact disc releases are noted for their vinyl record stylized design. It is also releasing some of American Decca Records ' albums from

228-622: The Four Seasons in 1964. It also played a part in promoting the garage rock genre and the psychedelic rock genre in the mid to late 1960s, their most successful signing being Blue Cheer . In the UK during the 1960s and 1970s, Philips turned its attention more to the growing MOR market with artists like Lena Zavaroni , Peters and Lee , Nana Mouskouri and Demis Roussos , as well as issuing novelty records by media personalities like Ed Stewart , Bruce Forsyth , Dave Allen and Chris Hill . In 1970, Philips, Fontana, Mercury Records , and

266-566: The Universal Music Group . The Philips UK and Phonogram UK websites are with WIX. In 1983, Philips became one of the first record labels to issue compact discs using digital recordings that had been made since 1978. Philips and its subsidiaries eventually re-issued many of its pre-digital stereo and mono recordings on compact disc. Philips and DuPont partnered in four CD manufacturing plants in Hanover, Germany; Blackburn in

304-599: The 1940s and 1950s, such as those that Leonard Bernstein made for Decca in 1953, and the classic Christmas album that features Ronald Colman 's starring in A Christmas Carol and Charles Laughton 's narrating Mr. Pickwick's Christmas . Along with the American Decca Records classical music catalogue, Deutsche Grammophon also manages the classical music catalogue of ABC Records , including Westminster Records which, along with American Decca, were part of MCA Records . Although Deutsche Grammophon acquired

342-625: The German branch of his Berliner Gramophone Company. Berliner sent his nephew Joseph Sanders from America to set up operations. Based in the city of Hanover (the founder's birthplace), the company became a fully owned subsidiary of the Gramophone Company Ltd. in 1900 and an affiliate of the US Victor Talking Machine Company . After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the company seceded from

380-538: The Gramophone Company. Though no longer affiliated with Gramophone Company and Victor, Deutsche Grammophon retained the " His Master's Voice " trademark featuring Nipper the dog for use in Germany until the late 1940s; for several years following its secession, the company even continued selling recordings made from pre-war matrices owned by the Gramophone Company and Victor. In 1941, Deutsche Grammophon

418-759: The LSO, were under the command of prestigious young conductors such as Colin Davis and Bernard Haitink . From 1961 until the late 1980s, Philips Records (USA) issued many classical titles in US-specific packaging, initially in the same glossy-laminated covers as Mercury Records. The records were pressed at Mercury's plant in Richmond, Indiana, and mastered in New York by George Piros at Fine Recording, using 2-track and mono master tapes provided by Philips. These releases were

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456-835: The Netherlands. Launched under the slogan "Records of the Century" (referring to Philips Industries' UK Head Office at Century House, W1), the first releases in Britain appeared in January 1953 on 10" 78 rpm discs, with LPs appearing in July 1954. Philips also distributed recordings made by the United States Columbia Records (which at the time was a unit of CBS ) in the UK and on the European continent. After

494-774: The PHS 900 xxx series for stereo and the 500 xxx series for mono. Clair Van Ausdal in Mercury's New York office oversaw the Philips classical US releases through the mid-1960s. Philips also launched an eponymous jazz label in the US, releasing both imported European Philips recordings and making new American recordings of Gerry Mulligan , Dizzy Gillespie and Woody Herman , among others. These records were made through Mercury's existing jazz operations and produced by Jack Tracy and others. In addition to jazz and classical music, Philips also became

532-489: The Philips and Fontana labels. This arrangement lasted until April 1962, when, under pressure from Columbia in America, Philips then created a third label for them, CBS Records (it could not name the label Columbia as the copyright for that name had long been owned by EMI). In late 1964, under the stewardship of U.S. President of Columbia Records Goddard Lieberson , CBS Records formed its own international operations, adopting

570-476: The Philips classical recordings have been reissued on the Eloquence label. Universal also released a "Philips 50" series marking the 50th anniversary of Philips Records in the early 2000s; some of those CDs are still in print. Pentatone has released Philips Quadraphonic sound recordings from the early and mid-1970s in 4-channel SACD format, as their RQR Series. Philips' classical catalog was issued on CD under

608-803: The Philips pop back catalogue to this day. Philips Records has been part of Universal Music since 1998, the name continuing to be licensed from the label's former parent company. In 1999, Philips Classics was absorbed into the Decca Music Group , and Philips recording and mastering operations in the Netherlands were shut down. Former employees bought the Philips Recording Center in Baarn, Netherlands, and formed Polyhymnia International (a recording and mastering company) and Pentatone Records (which specializes in SACD releases). Many of

646-614: The UK (formerly the Philips Laservision Disc factory); Kings Mountain in North Carolina, and Louviers in France. By the mid-1990s, PolyGram Classics handled the classical labels (Philips, Mercury, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon) and Verve Music Group handled the jazz back catalogue (from Verve, Mercury, etc.) and new jazz releases. Island Records absorbed Mercury in 2014 and in doing so, Island has continued to manage

684-513: The UK and throughout much of Europe, though it still frequently issued records in France and South East Asia by Chinese and Hong Kong pop artists. The majority of PolyGram's rock and pop music signings went to Mercury, and Polydor in the UK and Europe, though the label was used sparingly in America. Philips became part of PolyGram Classics as a classical music label along with Decca Records and Deutsche Grammophon . Most artists were moved to Mercury Records or other local PolyGram-owned labels. From

722-679: The US by Decca and MGM Records ) came at a time when the leading US classical music labels RCA Victor Red Seal and Columbia Masterworks were dropping most of their unlucrative classical artists and pressing inferior quality records. DGG's high quality recordings and pressings attracted artists such as Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra (who had recorded for RCA Victor since 1935) and Leonard Bernstein (after several years with Columbia) to DGG/Polydor. In 1987, Siemens sold off its interest in PolyGram, and Philips became

760-832: The US under the Philips label. The Mercury Living Presence team also made classical recordings for Philips, in July 1961. These records, made in Walthamstow Town Hall near London, included Liszt piano concertos by Sviatoslav Richter and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kiril Kondrashin ; two albums of symphonic "bon-bons" by the London Symphony Orchestra and Charles Mackerras released as "Kaleidoscope"; "Russian Song Recital" by Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich ; and Beethoven sonata op. 69 for cello and piano by Richter and Rostropovich. The Richter Liszt album

798-597: The Village People , as their home label Casablanca Records was not cleared for use in all countries around the world. Another important American label signing for the UK was Avco Records, which provided Phonogram with one of their best-selling U.S. acts, the Stylistics. By late 1979 Phonogram signed Dire Straits to the Vertigo label. The band sold huge numbers of records all over Europe and were chosen to promote

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836-509: The classical field as well as a notable roster of contracted singers, musicians, and conductors. Through its subsidiary label Archiv Produktion it also stimulated interest in Western medieval and renaissance music, 15th – 16th century choral polyphony, Gregorian chant , and pioneering use of "historical instruments" and performance practices in recordings. DGG/ Polydor 's entrance into the US market in 1969 (DGG had previous been distributed in

874-444: The company's large factory based at Walthamstow in N.E. London. In 1961, after Philips lost its US and Canadian distribution deal with Columbia Records, it entered an exchange agreement with Mercury Records . A year later, Philips' US affiliate Consolidated Electronics Industries Corp. (a.k.a. Conelco ), bought Mercury and its subsidiary labels, such as Smash . Philips classical, jazz and pop records were now marketed by Mercury in

912-470: The early 1970s, Philips classical records were no longer being produced in the US; rather they were made in the Netherlands and sold as imports in the American market. Philips reissued a group of Mercury Living Presence titles as "Mercury Golden Imports", with manufacture in the Netherlands and masters cut from 2-track production tapes, as opposed to the original-issue method of mixing stereo LPs directly from

950-594: The edited 3-track master tapes and films. In the 1980s, Philips Classics Records was formed to distribute its classical artists, although classical recordings have also been issued on the regular Philips label. In the US, Philips eventually handled distribution and sales for Philips, Mercury, British Decca (sold under the London label in the US) and Deutsche Grammophon. After the sale of PolyGram to Vivendi/Seagram, all PolyGram-labels - including Philips and Decca - became part of

988-588: The headings Digital Classics , Legendary Classics and Silver Line Classics. Many of these titles have been reissued on the Decca label. The "Philips Connoisseur Collection" issued world music and other genres. Deutsche Grammophon Deutsche Grammophon ( German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ɡʁamoˈfoːn] ; DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram . Headquartered in Berlin Friedrichshain , it

1026-478: The initial release of CDs in 1985, with a nationwide road tour in association with Philips/Sony Industries. By 1980, PolyGram consolidated all of its U.S. operations, Phonogram, Inc. Mercury Records , RSO , Casablanca and Polydor Records and associated labels into PolyGram Records and it was based in New York City. Under the new company, PolyGram decided to discontinue Philips as a pop and rock label in

1064-468: The label to chart was Frankie Laine's " I Believe ", which reached the No. 1 chart position in the UK that April. Many of the first British recordings on the label were produced by Norman Newell until John Franz was appointed artists and repertoire ( A&R ) manager in 1954. In 1958, Philips created a subsidiary label, Fontana Records , which meant that American-Columbia recordings were being issued on both

1102-521: The majority shareholder. In 1998, the Seagram company of Canada purchased Deutsche Grammophon and PolyGram on behalf of its Universal Music Group subsidiary. Since then, UMG was sold and became a division of Vivendi until its IPO in September 2021. Deutsche Grammophon pioneered the introduction of the compact disc to the mass market, debuting classical music performed by Herbert von Karajan and

1140-606: The name of its then parent CBS . CBS Records set up their UK operation in Theobalds Road in Holborn. Singles and albums on the Philips and Fontana labels by Columbia-owned product were subsequently deleted from the catalogue. In 1962, Philips Records and Deutsche Grammophon formed the Grammophon-Philips Group joint venture (GPG), which later became PolyGram in 1972. UK pressings were manufactured at

1178-454: The newly formed Vertigo Records were amalgamated into a new company called Phonogram . In Europe, however, Philips was used on a major basis and it became the outlet for Sire Records in America and distributed a number of punk and new wave bands like Talking Heads , the Ramones , and Radio Birdman , who were signed from Australia. It also released some disco records by Donna Summer and

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1216-539: The recordings and re-released them on his own label. Other German composers associated with the label included Paul Hindemith and Hans Werner Henze . Contemporary composers whose works were released by Deutsche Grammophon include Hildur Guðnadóttir , Sofia Gubaidulina , Oliver Knussen , Mark-Anthony Turnage , Mohammed Fairouz , Péter Eötvös , Luigi Nono , Sven Helbig , Jonny Greenwood , Bryce Dessner , Witold Lutosławski , Philip Glass , Vangelis , Tori Amos and Max Richter . The conductor most associated with

1254-461: The reputation of releasing mainstream classical recordings, from the 1960s onwards it released an increasing number of avant-garde recordings (initially under the Avant-Garde imprint), including Bruno Maderna , David Bedford , Cornelius Cardew , Luigi Nono and improvisations. It also released the majority of the compositions of Karlheinz Stockhausen until the composer bought the rights to

1292-510: The separation of the English Columbia label (owned by EMI ) and American Columbia, Philips also started distributing original Columbia recordings on the Philips label in the UK. The first batch of eight singles releases in 1953 included British artists such as Gilbert Harding , Flanagan and Allen and Gracie Fields , followed by American Columbia recording artists Jo Stafford , Frankie Laine and Johnnie Ray . The first single on

1330-407: The trio when it was founded in 1955 were as follows: The violin and cello members changed on a number of occasions, with later members including the following: In July 2015, Decca Classics released a 60-CD boxed set to mark their 60th anniversary. This article on a United States band or other musical ensemble is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about

1368-507: Was a staple of the majority of its full-price recordings until the early years of the 21st century, when it all but disappeared from new releases. It has since enjoyed something of a revival in newer recordings. In 1962, Siemens formed a joint venture with Netherlands-based Philips to create the DGG/PPI Record Group, which became PolyGram Records in 1972. By this time, DGG had built a reputation for high-quality recording in

1406-523: Was purchased by Siemens & Halske . In 1949, Deutsche Grammophon sold the German rights of the His Master's Voice trademark to the Electrola unit of EMI . The dog and gramophone were replaced by the crown of tulips, designed by Siemens advertising consultant Hans Domizlaff. The distinctive yellow cartouche banner, occupying almost a third of each recording's cover, first appeared in 1957 and

1444-780: Was recorded on 3-track 35mm magnetic film and was reissued on CD from a remaster made from the film by original producer Wilma Cozart Fine , (wife of the recording engineer Bob ) as part of the Philips Solo series. Classical groups that Philips heavily recorded included the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Beaux Arts Trio , and the Quartetto Italiano . Violinist Arthur Grumiaux and the pianist Claudio Arrau were under contract to Philips. Symphony orchestras under contract, including

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