Debut album – Warner Classics Award

The Warner Classics label will select one person from all participants whose debut album it will communicate and market internationally.

Portrait Warner Classics

Warner Classics, the classical music label of the New York-based and globally operating Warner Music Group, has united four large and traditional labels and thus one of the largest classical music catalogs under one roof with headquarters in Paris since 2013: EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, Erato and Teldec Classics.

The label's profile is characterized by artistic legends such as Maria Callas, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Fritz Wunderlich, Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Carlo Maria Giulini, Otto Klemperer, Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, William Christie, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jacqueline du Pré, Yehudi Menuhin, David Oistrakh, Itzhak Perlman, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Maurice André, Alban Berg Quartet, Plácido Domingo and Nigel Kennedy.

Warner Classics is also home to a wide range of contemporary classical stars - such as Antonio Pappano, Philippe Jaroussky, Joyce DiDonato, Martha Argerich, Diana Damrau, Alexandre Tharaud, David Fray, Christina Pluhar, Alison Balsom, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Emmanuel Pahud, Quatuor Ebène and the Artemis Quartet, Vilde Frang, Bertrand Chamayou as well as artists of the younger generation such as harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, cellist Edgar Moreau, soprano Sabine Devieilhe, pianist Beatrice Rana and the Arod Quartet.

Artists who push boundries such as the pianists RIOPY, Martin Kohlstedt and Carlos Cipa as well as the innovative vision string quartet round off the multifaceted profile of Warner Classics.
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