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Index Virgin Classics

Virgin Classics was a record label founded in 1988 as part of Richard Branson's Virgin Records. [1]

99 relations: Add MS 29987, Alexandre Tharaud, Ariodante, Artango, Artaserse (Vinci), Arve Tellefsen, Éric Bellocq, Ben Parry (musician), Benjamin Britten, Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39, Byron Schenkman, Caitríona O'Leary, Cello Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich), Cello Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich), Charles Castronovo, Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 discography, Colin Matthews, Collegium Vocale Gent, Concerto Köln, Det Norske Kammerorkester, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Diapason d'Or, Dmitri Alexeev (pianist), Don Giovanni discography, EMI, EMI Classics, Erato Records, Fabio Biondi, Gautier Capuçon, George Gagnidze, George Pehlivanian, Giovanni Porta, Gitano (Rolando Villazón album), Giustino (Vivaldi), Harpsichord Concerto in A major, BWV 1055, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, International Classical Music Awards, Jean-Patrice Brosse, Joël Suhubiette, Jon Lord, Josetxu Obregón, Julien Chauvin, L'Arpeggiata, L'oracolo in Messenia, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, La Petite Bande, Lawrence Zazzo, Le comte Ory, Les Violons du Roy, Lisette Oropesa, ..., List of Warner Music Group labels, Ludmila Valentinovna Berlinskaya, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Marc Mauillon, Marc Minkowski, Mayumi Seiler, Michèle Lagrange, Nathan Berg, Nicolas Rivenq, Noye's Fludde, Old and Lost Rivers, Parlophone, Patrizia Ciofi, Paul Appleby (tenor), Paul Bunyan (operetta), Paul McCreesh, Philippe Herreweghe, Piotr Anderszewski, Radamisto (Handel), Raquel Andueza, Record label, Renaud Machart, Richard Campbell (classical musician), Robert White (tenor), Roland Haerdtner, Sharon Isbin, Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019, So Pretty (Leonard Bernstein song), Sonya Yoncheva, Susannah, Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff), Terje Tønnesen, The Blue Note Label Group, The Enchanted Island (2011 opera), The Planets discography, Timeline of Richard Branson's business ventures, Tobias Picker, Trevor Wishart, Truls Mørk, Un Concert pour Mazarin, Universal Music Group, Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170, Vern Sutton, Virgin Records, Virgin Veritas, Vox Cycle, Warner Classics, Warner Music Group, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Expand index (49 more) »

Add MS 29987

London, British Library, MS.

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Alexandre Tharaud

Alexandre Tharaud (born 9 December 1968) is a French pianist.

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Ariodante

Ariodante (HWV 33) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel.

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Artango

Artango were a French art tango duo of the 1990s who recorded for EMI's Virgin Classics label.

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Artaserse (Vinci)

Artaserse is an opera (dramma per musica) in three acts composed by Leonardo Vinci to an Italian libretto by Metastasio.

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Arve Tellefsen

Arve Tellefsen (born 14 December 1936 in Trondheim, Norway) is an award winning Norwegian violinist, known from collaborations with conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Arvid Jansons, Herbert Blomstedt, Gary Bertini, Evgeny Svetlanov, Bryden Thomson, Neeme Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Paavo Berglund, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Walter Weller and Zubin Mehta.

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Éric Bellocq

Éric Bellocq (born 8 September 1962) is a French lutenist.

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Ben Parry (musician)

Ben Parry (born 1965) is a British musician, composer, conductor, singer, arranger and producer in both classical and light music fields.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot ("Break with hungry men thy bread" or "Give the hungry ones thy bread"),, in Leipzig and first performed on 23 June 1726, the first Sunday after Trinity that year.

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Byron Schenkman

Byron Schenkman (born 1966) is an American harpsichordist, pianist, music director, and educator.

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Caitríona O'Leary

Caitríona O'Leary (born November 17, 1969) is an Irish singer known for her performances of Irish traditional music and Early music.

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Cello Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)

The Cello Concerto No.

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Cello Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)

The Cello Concerto No.

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Charles Castronovo

Charles Castronovo (born June 19, 1975) is an American operatic tenor.

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Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 discography

This is a partial list of commercial or professional recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata ''Christ lag in Todes Banden'', BWV 4, organized chronologically.

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Colin Matthews

Colin Matthews, OBE (born 13 February 1946) is an English composer of classical music.

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Collegium Vocale Gent

Collegium Vocale Gent is a Belgian musical ensemble of vocalists and supporting instrumentalists, founded by Philippe Herreweghe.

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Concerto Köln

Concerto Köln is a Baroque music chamber ensemble.

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Det Norske Kammerorkester

Det Norske Kammerorkester or The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (established in 1977) is a chamber orchestra based in Oslo.

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Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (unofficial English translation: Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic) is a chamber orchestra based in Bremen (Germany), with place of residence in the historical building Stadtwaage.

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Diapason d'Or

The Diapason d'Or (literally "Golden Tuning Fork" in French) is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of Diapason magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the British Gramophone magazine.

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Dmitri Alexeev (pianist)

Dmitri Alexeev (Дмитрий Константинович Алексеев, Dmitrij Konstantinovič Alekseev, born 10 August 1947 in Moscow) is a Russian pianist.

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Don Giovanni discography

This is a partial discography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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EMI Classics

EMI Classics was a record label founded by EMI in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed classical music releases.

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Erato Records

Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 as Disques Erato by Philippe Loury to promote French classical music.

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Fabio Biondi

Fabio Biondi (born 15 March 1961 in Palermo, Italy) is an Italian violinist and conductor.

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Gautier Capuçon

With Jean-Claude Casadesus Gautier Capuçon (born 3 September 1981) is a French cellist.

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George Gagnidze

George Gagnidze (გიორგი გაგნიძე) is a Georgian operatic baritone specializing in the Italian dramatic repertoire.

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George Pehlivanian

George Pehlivanian (born 20 April 1964) is a French-American conductor.

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Giovanni Porta

Giovanni Porta (c. 1677 – 21 June 1755) was an Italian opera composer.

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Gitano (Rolando Villazón album)

Gitano is a 2007 album of zarzuela arias sung by tenor Rolando Villazón, with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid conducted by Plácido Domingo, for Virgin Classics.

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Giustino (Vivaldi)

Giustino (also known as Anastasio) RV 717 is a 1724 opera by Vivaldi to a libretto by Nicolò Beregan.

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Harpsichord Concerto in A major, BWV 1055

The Harpsichord Concerto in A major, BWV 1055, is a concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (Chinese: 香港管弦樂團), commonly abbreviated as HKPO or HKPhil (Chinese: 港樂), is the largest symphony orchestra in Hong Kong.

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International Classical Music Awards

The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) are music awards first awarded April 6, 2011.

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Jean-Patrice Brosse

Jean-Patrice Brosse (born 23 June 1950) is a French harpsichordist and organist.

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Joël Suhubiette

Joël Suhubiette (born in 1962) is a contemporary French choral conductor.

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Jon Lord

John Douglas Lord (9 June 194116 July 2012) was an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with Deep Purple, as well as Whitesnake, Paice Ashton Lord, The Artwoods, and The Flower Pot Men.

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Josetxu Obregón

Josetxu Obregón is a Spanish cellist, specializing in early music performance.

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Julien Chauvin

Julien Chauvin (born in 1979) is a French violonist and music director, specialized in the interpretation on period instruments and gut strings, co-founder of the orchestra the (2004-2014), as well as the (2007), and founder of the Concert de la Loge Olympique (2015).

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L'Arpeggiata

L'Arpeggiata is a European early music group led by Christina Pluhar, and founded by her in 2000.

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L'oracolo in Messenia

L'oracolo in Messenia is a 1738 opera by Vivaldi to a libretto by Apostolo Zeno.

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La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein

La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.

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La Petite Bande

La Petite Bande is a Belgium-based ensemble specialising in Baroque music played on period instruments.

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Lawrence Zazzo

Lawrence Zazzo (born December 15, 1970 in Philadelphia) is an American countertenor.

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Le comte Ory

Le comte Ory is a comic opera written by Gioachino Rossini in 1828.

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Les Violons du Roy

Les Violons du Roy is a French-Canadian chamber orchestra based in Québec City, Québec.

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Lisette Oropesa

Lisette Oropesa (born September 29, 1983) is an American operatic soprano.

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List of Warner Music Group labels

Warner Music Group's labels include the following.

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Ludmila Valentinovna Berlinskaya

Ludmila Valentinovna Berlinskaya (Людмила Валентиновна Берлинская) is a Russian pianist and actress born in 1960 in Moscow.

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Mahler Chamber Orchestra

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra is a professional touring chamber orchestra founded by Claudio Abbado and former members of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in 1997.

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Marc Mauillon

Marc Mauillon (born in 1980) is a 21st-century French singer, sometimes tenor, sometimes baritone.

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Marc Minkowski

Marc Minkowski (born 4 October 1962) is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works.

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Mayumi Seiler

Mayumi Seiler (born November 14, 1963) is a Canadian-Austrian violinist born in Osaka, Japan, to Japanese/German parentage.

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Michèle Lagrange

Michèle Lagrange (born 29 May 1947) is a contemporary French operatic soprano.

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Nathan Berg

Nathan Berg (born in Spalding, Saskatchewan, Canada) is an internationally recognized "first class" operatic bass-baritone.

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Nicolas Rivenq

Nicolas Rivenq (born 1958) is a contemporary French baritone.

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Noye's Fludde

Noye's Fludde is a one-act opera by the British composer Benjamin Britten, intended primarily for amateur performers, particularly children.

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Old and Lost Rivers

Old and Lost Rivers is a short orchestral composition by the American composer Tobias Picker.

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Parlophone

Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.

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Patrizia Ciofi

Patrizia Ciofi (born 7 June 1967) is an Italian operatic Coloratura soprano.

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Paul Appleby (tenor)

Paul Appleby (born June 29, 1983) is an American operatic tenor.

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Paul Bunyan (operetta)

Paul Bunyan, Op 17, is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden, designed for performance by semi-professional groups.

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Paul McCreesh

Paul McCreesh (born 24 May 1960) is an English conductor.

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Philippe Herreweghe

Philippe Herreweghe (born 2 May 1947, Ghent) is a Belgian conductor.

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Piotr Anderszewski

Piotr Anderszewski (born 4 April 1969) is a Polish pianist and composer.

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Radamisto (Handel)

Radamisto (HWV 12) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, based on L'amor tirannico, o Zenobia by Domenico Lalli and Zenobia by Matteo Noris.

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Raquel Andueza

Raquel Andueza (born Pamplona) is a Spanish soprano.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Renaud Machart

Renaud Machart (born 22 March 1962 in Lannion) is a French journalist, music critic, radio producer and music producer.

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Richard Campbell (classical musician)

Richard John Campbell (21 February 1956 – 8 March 2011) was an English classical musician, best known as a founder member of the early music ensemble Fretwork and for his newer association with the Feinstein Ensemble, specialising in historically accurate performance of 18th-century music.

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Robert White (tenor)

Robert White (born October 27, 1936) is an American tenor and voice teacher who has had an active performance career for eight decades.

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Roland Haerdtner

Roland Haerdtner, orig.

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Sharon Isbin

Sharon Isbin is an American Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist and the founding director of the Guitar Department at Juilliard.

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Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019

The six sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014–1019 by Johann Sebastian Bach are works in trio sonata form, with the two upper parts in the harpsichord and violin over a bass line supplied by the harpsichord and an optional viola da gamba.

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So Pretty (Leonard Bernstein song)

"So Pretty" is a 1968 anti-war song by Leonard Bernstein to lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, contributed to a Broadway for Peace fundraiser on January 21, 1968, at Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall.

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Sonya Yoncheva

Sonya Yoncheva (Соня Йончева; born 25 December 1981) is a Bulgarian operatic soprano.

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Susannah

Susannah is an opera in two acts by the American composer Carlisle Floyd, who wrote the libretto and music while a member of the piano faculty at Florida State University.

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Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)

Symphony No.

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Terje Tønnesen

Terje Tønnesen (born 27 February 1955 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian violinist, first married 1979 to the pianist Reidun Askeland (1957–), marriage disbanded in 1986, second marriage 1986 with the actress Hilde Grythe (18.7.1955–), daughter of NRK program host Odd Grythe (1918–94) and film director Kirsten Sørlie (1926–).

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The Blue Note Label Group

The Blue Note Label Group was formed in late 2006 by the major record company EMI and is currently owned by the Universal Music Group.

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The Enchanted Island (2011 opera)

The Enchanted Island is a pasticcio (pastiche) of music by various baroque composers, including George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, and Jean-Philippe Rameau, devised and written by Jeremy Sams after The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.

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The Planets discography

This is a discography of The Planets, Op.

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Timeline of Richard Branson's business ventures

This is a list of Sir Richard Branson's business ventures from the 1960s to today.

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Tobias Picker

Tobias Picker (born July 18, 1954) is an American composer who writes in a range of genres: orchestral, opera and chamber works.

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Trevor Wishart

Trevor Wishart (born 11 October 1946) is an English composer, based in York.

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Truls Mørk

Truls Olaf Otterbech Mørk (born 25 April 1961) is a Norwegian cellist.

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Un Concert pour Mazarin

is the title of a music recording released on compact disc in early 2004 by Virgin Classics.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust (Delightful rest, beloved pleasure of the soul),, in Leipzig for the sixth Sunday after Trinity.

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Vern Sutton

Vern Sutton (born April 8, 1938) is an American operatic tenor, opera director, and academic.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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Virgin Veritas

Virgin Veritas is an imprint of French classical music record label Virgin Classics dedicated to early music and historically informed performance.

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Vox Cycle

Vox Cycle is a six compositions or independent movement cycle for four amplified voices, and electroacoustic music by Trevor Wishart, composed between 1980 and 1988, associated with extended vocal techniques and the contemporary vocal composition.

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Warner Classics

Warner Classics is the classical music arm of Warner Music Group.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, CC (born Yannick Séguin;David Patrick Stearns, "Nezet-Seguin signs Philadelphia Orchestra contract". The Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 June 2010. 6 March 1975) is a Canadian conductor and pianist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Classics

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