Recording Companies and Distributors

Note: Labels are grouped by US distributors with the largest companies listed first and with a focus on companies that have produced Shostakovich recordings; revised 26 October 1999.

• BMG: Melodiya, RCA Red Label, RCA Victor, BMG Classics, ECM
            
• Polygram: Deutsche Grammophon, London/Decca, Philips, Mercury
            
• CEMA: EMI/Angel/Virgin Classics  
            
• Sony: Sony Classical, Sony Masterworks, CBS
            
• WEA (Warner/Elektra/Atlantic): Teldec, Erato, Finlandia, Nonesuch

Smaller Distributors and Labels:  

• Albany Music Distributors
  Arcadia, dell'Arte, ICONE, Ottavo, Russian Disc, Theorema
            
• Albany Records
            
• Allegro Imports
  Arabesque, Bluebell, CBC Records/Les Disques SRC, Classics for Pleasure, Collins Classics, Denon, DOREMI Music, Dorian, ESS.A.Y, IMP (Innovative Music Products), Kontrapunkt, Legend MK (Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga), Multisonic, Nimbus, Nuova Era, Olympia, Ongaku Recordings, Originals, Pickwick, Sheffield Labs, World (Tring) (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra), Tudor, United
            
• BBC Radio Classics (US distributor?)
            
• Delos  (self-distributed)
            
• Delta Music
  Capriccio, Laserlight
            
• Harmonia Mundi
  Channel Classics/Canal Grande, Dutton Laboratories
  Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Le Chant du Monde/CDM Russian Season, Praga, Testament Records, Unicorn-Kanchana
            
• Koch International
  ASV, Berlin Classics, Bridge, Chandos, Consonance, Intaglio, Koch International Classics, Koch Schwann, MD&G, Memories, Music & Arts, Nuova Era, Pearl (Pavilion Records)
            
• Leningrad Masters (US distributor?)
            
• Mobile Fidelity  (self-distributed)
            
• Monitor  (self-distributed)
            
• Naxos (HNH International)
  Marco Polo, Naxos
            
• Omega Record Group  
  Everest, Vanguard Classics
            
• Qualiton Imports
  US distributor of:
  Arkadia, BIS, Gega, Hungaroton, Norway Music, Saga, Simax, Supraphon, Supraphon Budget, Thorophon
            
• Revelation / Russia Revelation (issuing tapes from Gostelradio; US distributor is Bay Cities) -- Temporarily suspended
            
• St. Petersburg Classics (US distributor?)
            
• Telarc (self-distributed)
            
• Universal Studios Music Group
  MCA Records (no classical content as of March 8, 1999)
            
• Vox Music Group
  Vox Box
            

Other index sites dedicated to classical recording labels:
Classical Net
Directory of Classical Record Labels
All-Music Guide (All-Classical Guide)

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Revised:  26 Oct 1999.