Camerata has developed recording art that gives form to the ideal performance, and we have concentrated our efforts on recording with the aim of producing even better sound to pass on to posterity. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the label, we are releasing an even more vivid recording of a wonderful recording hall performance in a 24 bit/96 kHz format. It is with much pleasure that we present- this high-quality recording of brilliant performances of select works by the world's leading artists.

 

 

 

 

 

Since releasing our first LP record more than 30 years ago, Camerata has been delivering recordings of quality performances of musical works by excellent artists under the direction of producer Hiroshi Isaka. The number of titles has reached around 1,000, and while the focus is on chamber music, the contents are diverse: orchestral music, opera and operetta, and genres from baroque to modern. With recording bases in Vienna and Japan, Camerata is actively engaged in recording. The pillar of our activities is introducing Vienna chamber music, lied and other Vienna recordings, modern Japanese works, and accomplished Japanese musicians. Additionally, we have brought numerous forgotten stellar pieces back into the spotlight, many of which are world-first recordings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The musicians that have recordings on our label are among the top artists in the world, including former Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Werner Hink, current concertmaster Volkhard Steude, flutists Wolfgang Schulz and Dieter Flury, and clarinetist Peter Schmidl. Also on the label are noted pianists Bruno Canino, Edith Picht-Axenfeld, Roland Batik, Stefan Vladar, Doris Adam, Keiko Toyama and Aki Takahashi; organists Peter Planyavsky and Claudio Brizi; violinists Karin Adam and Saschko Gawriloff; cellists Maurice Gendron and Walter Nothas; flutists Severino Gazzelloni, Aurele Nicolet, Paul Meisen and William Bennett; oboists Heinz Holliger and Thomas Indermuhle; clarinetist Karl Leister; fagottist Milan Turkovic; recorderist Hans Maria Kneihs; hornist Stefan Dohr; and singers Ernst Haefliger, Victoria de Los Angeles, Melanie Holliday, Ryszard Karczykowski and Heinz Holecek. Also featured on the recordings are ensembles such as I Solisti di Perugia, Ensemble "11," Ensemble Wien-Berlin, Das Wiener Philharmonia Quintett, the Vienna String Quartet, the Panocha Quartet, Wiener Biedermeier Solisten, Wiener Schrammel Ensemble and Beethoven Trio, Wien.

 

 

 

 

Camerata records have won high acclaim since the founding of our label. We were honored early on when in 1979 we received the Agency of Cultural Affairs' annual award for excellence in performance for both Sumire Yoshihara's percussion performance of a collection of works by Japanese composers and Keiko Nosaka's 20-stringed koto performance of a collection of pieces by Minoru Miki. Since then many of our albums have received grand prizes and other awards, all the way up to the simultaneous awards for excellence in performance in 2008 for "Music of Akira Miyoshi" and "The Perilous Night-Aki Takahashi plays John Cage". Additionally, in 1982, the Vienna String Quartet's "Death and the Maiden" (Schubert) received the chamber music award at Ongaku no Tomo Sha's Record Academy Awards, and in 1985, the Yoshio Hachimura collection received the academy's Japanese composition award. Overseas, Roland Batik's "Mozart: Complete Piano Sonata Collection" received the recording prize "Wiener Flotenuhr" in 1991. In 1996, Hiroshi Isaka received the Bruckner Gold Medal from the Austrian Bruckner Association for his work on the Bruckner Orchester Linz's production of Anton Bruckner Complete Symphonies (conducted by Kurt Eichhorn et al.). Most recently, Aldo Ciccolini's Debussy and Chopin piano collection received the gold prize in the CD solo category at the Classic Voice (an Italian music magazine) Awards in 2008.