Sony Classical Records

American record label

Sony Classical

Parent company	Sony Music
Founded	1924; 100 years ago (1924), as Columbia Masterworks Records
Distributor(s)	Sony Masterworks
Genre	Classical
Country of origin	United States
Official website	www.sonyclassical.com

Sony Classical is an American record label founded in 1924 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records. In 1980, the Columbia Masterworks label was renamed as CBS Masterworks Records. The CBS Records Group was acquired by Sony in 1988, and in 1990 it was renamed Sony Classical.^[1]

Artists

Sony Classical has represented artists including:

Alexis Ffrench
Yo-Yo Ma
Igor Levit
Jonas Kaufmann
Glenn Gould
Wiener Philharmoniker
Joshua Bell
Hans Zimmer
John Williams
Khatia Buniatishvili
Arthur Rubinstein
Eugene Ormandy
Leonard Bernstein
Teodor Currentzis
Arcadi Volodos
Christian Gerhaher
Vladimir Horowitz
Christoph Koncz
Ivo Pogorelich
Martin Fröst
Leif Ove Andsnes
Lavinia Meijer
Rachel Willis-Sørensen
Mao Fujita
Pablo Ferrández
Miloš Karadaglić
Attacca Quartet

Presidents

1997: Peter Gelb^[2] (NY)
2009–2019: Bogdan Roscic^[3]^[4]
2019: Per Hauber^[5]

References

^ "About". www.sonyclassical.com. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
^ "Kongreßthemen Klassik Komm". Neue Musikzeitung.
^ "Neue Allianzen in der Musikbranche". Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten (in German).
^ "Wiener Philharmoniker und Sony Classical verlängern Zusammenarbeit". www.mediabiz.de (in German).
^ "Sony Classical ist das größte Konzerthaus der Welt". Tagesspiegel (in German). December 12, 2019.