Pentatone (record label)
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Founded | 2001 |
Founder | Dirk van Dijk, Job Maarse, and Giel Bessels |
Genre | Classical |
Country of origin | Netherlands |
Location | Baarn |
Official website | pentatonemusic |
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.[1] The name comes from the words penta (five) and tone (sound), meaning five channels of sound. The label is renowned for its high-resolution multichannel surround sound recordings[2] which are released in the Super Audio CD format.[1] In January 2002, Pentatone recorded the official music which was performed during the wedding ceremony of the Dutch crown prince Willem-Alexander and Máxima Zorreguieta.[3] 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 Philips Classics and Deutsche Grammophon. Among these are some from the 1970s which were originally recorded for 4-channel quadraphonic sound. Pentatone has remastered them for re-release and presented them in surround sound for the first time. All Pentatone's hybrid Super Audio CD discs can also be heard in 2-channel 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.[4][5] The following month it was announced that Pentatone had been acquired by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.[6]
Awards
In 2004, the label received a Grammy Award for their recording of Peter and the Wolf, narrated by Sophia Loren, Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev,[3] where the story is told from the perspective of the wolf and has the theme of letting animals live in peace. Other award-winning issues have included John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles, part of the American Opera Series, which won multiple awards, including the 59th Grammy Award as Best Opera Recording and Best Engineered Album.[7][8]
In 2019 Pentatone's premiere recording of the Mason Bates opera “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” won the Best Opera Recording at 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.[9]
In 2019, the label was awarded Label of the Year by the Gramophone Magazine.[10] In 2020, Pentatone won the title of Label of the Year in the International Classical Music Awards.[11]
Artists
Piano
- Mari Kodama
- Martin Helmchen
- Min Young Kang
- Denis Kozhukhin
- Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Nareh Argamanian
- Momo Kodama
- Sa Chen
- Francesco Piemontesi
- Inon Barnatan
- Kirill Kuzmin
- Saskia Giorgini
- Maxim Bernard
- Paul Rivinius
- Yefim Bronfman
- Tamara Stefanovich
- Lars Vogt
Cello
Violin
- Arabella Steinbacher
- Julia Fischer
- Leticia Moreno
- Jesus Rodolfo
Guitar
Clarinet
Flute
- Ana de la Vega
Mandolin
Harpsichordists
- Francesco Corti
- Andrea Buccarella
Mezzo-Soprano
- Alice Coote
- Ann Hallenberg
- Magdalena Kozena
- Anna Lucia Richter
- Sasha Cooke
- Elisabeth Kulman
- Magdalena Kožená
Soprano
- Lisa Delan
- Anna Lucia Richter
- Chen Reiss
- Sondra Radvanovsky
- Kathryn Lewek
- Melody Moore
- Francesca Aspromonte
- Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
- Lisette Oropesa
- Christina Landshamer
Tenor
- Christian Elsner
- Piotr Beczala
- Michael Fabiano
- Stefano Secco
- René Barbera
- Ian Bostridge
- Javier Camarena
Baritone
- John Chest
- Lester Lynch
Bass-baritone
Countertenor
Ensembles
- Calder Quartet
- Calefax
- Signum Quartet
- Emerson String Quartet
- Mirò Quartet
- Bastarda Trio
- Música Temprana
- cantoLX
Choir
- South Dakota Chorale
- Kup Taldea
- Cappella Amsterdam
Conductors
- Andres Orozco-Estrada
- Andrew Manze
- Diego Fasolis
- David Bates
- Marc Albrecht
- Marek Janowski
- Vladimir Jurowski
- Jakub Hrusa
- Kazuki Yamada
- Gustavo Gimeno
- Lawrance Foster
- Kazuki Yamada
- Kent Nagano
- Carlo Conti
- Roderick Cox
- Riccardo Frizza
- Semyon Bychkov
- Simon Murphy
- Mikhail Pletnev
- Sir Neville Marriner
- Yakov Kreizberg
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Jonathan Nott
- Herbert Blomstedt
- Christoph Eschenbach
- Daniel Reuss
- Daniel Oren
- Rene Jacobs
Orchestras
- Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
- Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
- Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest
- Russian National Orchestra
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
- hr-Sinfonieorchester
- Houston Symphony
- Oregon Symphony
- Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
- State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia ''Evgeny Svetlanov”
- New Dutch Academy
- Il pomo d’oro
- Czech Philharmonic
- Washington National Opera
- Basque National Orchestra
- Lyric Opera of Chicago
- Coro & Orquestra Gulbenkian
- Holland Baroque
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- The Dresdner Philharmonie
- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
- B'Rock Orchestra
Composers
- Gordon Getty
- Jeanine Tesori
- Jake Heggie
- Jennifer Higdon
- John Corigliano
- Jimmy López Bellido
- Hilarion Alfeyev
- Luna Pearl Woolf
- Viktor Orri Árnason
- Francisco Coll
- Wim Henderickx
- Fernando Velázquez
- Klein
- Missy Mazzoli
- Niloufar Nourbakhsh
- Tomeka Reid
- Nico Muhly
- Juri Seo
- David Balakrishnan
- Sky Macklay
- Nia Franklin
- Jennifer Jolley
- Alex Weston
- Nina Shekhar
- Texu Kim
- Caroline Shaw
- Kamala Sankaram
- Mark Campbell (librettist)
- Matt Boehler
- Gabriella Smith
- David Sanford
- David T. Little
- Nkeiru Okoye
- Jorge Sosa
- Vijay Iyer
- Roberto Sierra
- Asher Sizemore
- Tod Machover
- Laura Elise Schwendinger
- Lisa Bielawa
- Todd Boss
- Royce Vavrek
- Rene Orth
- Colleen Murphy
- Christopher Cerrone
- John K. Samson
- Gabriel Kahane
- Andrew Marshall
- Huang Ruo
- David Henry Hwang
- Timo Andres
- Hilary Purrington
- Lembit Beecher
- Liza Balkan
- Emily Roller
- Joel Thompson
- Gene Scheer
- Philip Glass
- Annabelle Chvostek
- Layale Chaker
- Lewis Spratlan
- Marcos Balter
- Tamar-kali
- Osnat Netzer
- Phonodelica
- David Lang
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
- ^ a b Karl Erik Sylthe (2014-03-19). "PENTATONE - A portrait of an audiophile record label". Audiophile (Norway). Retrieved 2018-06-23.
- ^ Sylthe, Karl Erik. "PENTATONE - A portrait of an audiophile record label". Retrieved 2018-11-19.
- ^ a b Max Delissen (2015-02-02). "PENTATONE: Liefde poor Klassieke Muziek en Techniek". HiFi (Netherlands). Retrieved 2018-06-23.
- ^ Salazar, David (2022-04-07). "PENTATONE Announces New Managing Director". OperaWire. Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
- ^ "Sean Hickey Appointed Managing Director". Pentatone Music BV. 2022-04-05. Archived from the original on 2022-07-01. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
- ^ "San Francisco Conservatory acquires Pentatone record label". The Strad. 2022-05-09. Archived from the original on 2022-05-09. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "L.A. Opera wins two Grammys for 'Ghosts of Versailles'". Los Angeles Times. 2017-02-12. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
- ^ "'The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs' Wins The Grammy". 2019-02-10. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
- ^ "Label of the Year". Gramophone. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
- ^ "Winners 2020". ICMA (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-18.