About www.AngelRecords.com
Welcome to www.AngelRecords.com, the online home of Angel Records, EMI Classics, Virgin Classics and Manhattan Records.
About this website
AngelRecords.com has been redesigned to help you quickly locate information on the artists you seek as well as to facilitate your
discovery of new music. The home page is now divided into four basic genre categories: Contemporary, Instrumental, Orchestral
and Opera-Vocal. The content of these boxes changes as you refresh your browser window. In addition, the new site includes built-in
recommendation tools to help you learn about other artists and releases you may enjoy - suggested titles are listed on both the home page and
on every album detail page.
Our catalogue search features are now always conveniently located at the top of your browser window. Quick Search allows for simple
keyword searches in several fields (artist, album, composer, track, orchestra, etc). Advanced Search
allows for a more thorough investigation of our catalogue, with pull down options to search Composer, Artist, Series and Selection Number. Both Quick
Search and Advanced Search display all matching results with appropriate links to the requested material. Our Tour Dates search
function provides simple drop-down menus to search by artist or location.
Visit Featured Releases to check on New/Recent releases,
Upcoming releases, and an ever-rotating listing of Featured releases. To interact more with us or other visitors,
check out our Discussion Boards,
Angel Sound & Vision (formerly known as Jukebox)
and Email Sign Up pages. Most releases include streaming
audio for you to sample our music, and all titles include Consumer Reviews and a BUY button, for you to easily and securely purchase our music
via Amazon.com. If you have feedback on this site's functionality or comments on the new architecture,
please Contact Us.
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About Angel Records
Angel Records was founded in the early 1950s and was later purchased by Capitol Records. Angel Records signs, develops and markets a select roster of classical, crossover, Broadway, world and folk artists and releases. Angel Records is also responsible for U.S. marketing of artists and releases for sister labels EMI Classics (UK) and Virgin Classics (France).
Angel Records, located in New York City, is a division of Capitol Jazz and Classics, owned by UK-based EMI Recorded Music and is distributed in the United States by EMI Music Distribution. Angel Records artists include Sarah Brightman, John McDermott, Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar, Bernadette Peters, Eroica Trio and Jay Ungar & Molly Mason.
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About Manhattan Records
Manhattan Records is also under the Capitol Jazz and Classics umbrella. In the 1980s and 1990s Manhattan Records signed, marketed and released titles by such successful artists as Gladys Knight, Richard Marx, Al Di Meola and Bobby McFerrin.
In the fall of 2001 Manhattan Records was restarted with a renewed ambition to produce quality, contemporary Adult music. Manhattan Records is currently headed by Grammy Award winning producer/ arranger, Arif Mardin and seasoned music executive Ian Ralfini. The growing Manhattan Records artist roster includes Keri Noble, Angela McCluskey and Richard Marx.
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About EMI Classics
The EMI Classics heritage goes back over a hundred years, to the start of both the Gramophone Company and the Columbia Graphophone Company. The creation of EMI Classics, and the introduction of a uniform record numbering system enabled all of EMI's classical releases to be included in a single international catalogue available throughout the world.
The EMI Classics catalogue features works of many legendary musicians such as pianists Arthur Schnabel and Vladimir Horowitz, violinists Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler and conductors Bruno Walter and Sir Thomas Beecham. From the LP and early stereo eras come acclaimed recordings from sopranos Maria Callas, Victoria de los Angeles and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, cellist Jacqueline du Pré, conductors Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Sir John Barbirolli and the longest-serving artist in the history of the record industry, violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin.
EMI Classics also records many artists who are current leading figures in the musical world. Conductors Sir Simon Rattle and Wolfgang Sawallisch, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, pianist Daniel Barenboim, violinists Itzhak Perlman and Nigel Kennedy, singers Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Placido Domingo are some of the distinguished EMI Classics names. EMI Classics shows its commitment to the future of classical music by expanding its roster with exciting new talents including the young violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Han-Na Chang, composer Thomas Adès, conductors Antonio Pappano and Franz Welser-Möst, flautist Emmanuel Pahud, and opera's highly acclaimed star couple - Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna.
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About Virgin Classics
Richard Branson, the founder and director of Virgin Records, launched Virgin Classics in April 1988. Virgin Classics has a commitment to young artists and in its early years saw classic recordings by Mikhail Pletnev, Steven Isserlis, Stephen Hough and Leif Ove Andsnes. In its first year Virgin Classics won a Gramophone award for best opera (the first recording of Britten's Paul Bunyan) and has since won innumerable awards worldwide. Artists signed to Virgin Classics include Norwegian cellist & Grammy winner, Truls Mørk, the outstanding young conductor Paavo Järvi, Renaud Capuçon, Piotr Anderszewski, David Daniels, Veronique Gens, Fabio Biondi and Sir Roger Norrington.
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