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Cedille Records

{{short description|Chicago-based classical music record label}}

{{COI|date=October 2016}}

{{Infobox record label

| name = Cedille Records

| parent = Chicago Classical Recording Foundation

| founded = {{Start date and age|1989}}

| founder = James Ginsburg

| distributor = Naxos Records (US)

| genre = Classical

| country = U.S.

| location = Chicago, Illinois

| website = {{URL|cedillerecords.org}}

}}

Cedille Records ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|eɪ|d|iː}}{{cite web |title=Podcast Archive |url=https://www.cedillerecords.org/podcasts/ |website=Cedille Records |accessdate=7 July 2020}}) is the independent record label of the Chicago Classical Recording Foundation.

History

In 1989, James Ginsburg, the son of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, founded Cedille Records as a for-profit classical music recording company featuring Chicago-area musicians. Ginsburg's vision for Cedille was "to record local musicians overlooked by the major labels." Cedille is the only Chicago-based classical label since Mercury Living Presence in the 1950s. In 1994, Cedille was transformed into a not-for-profit record label under the umbrella of the Chicago Classical Recording Foundation.{{cite web|title=A2IM|url=http://a2im.org/groups/cedille-records|work=Cedille Records|access-date=2011-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109132027/http://a2im.org/groups/cedille-records|archive-date=2011-11-09|url-status=dead}}

The label's releases included The Pulitzer Project, an album featuring Chicago's Grant Park Symphony Orchestra which includes two world premier recordings: William Schuman's "A Free Song" (Pulitzer 1943) and Leo Sowerby's "Canticle of the Sun" (Pulitzer 1946).{{cite web|title=Pulitzer Project|url=http://cedillerecords.org/music/product_info.php?products_id=1185|work=Cedille Records Website}}

Awards and honors

Several CDs released on the label have won or been nominated for Grammy Awards. In 2004 Brahms & Joachim Violin Concertos was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical and in 2005 Robert Kurka Symphonic Works was nominated in the same category.{{cite web|title=Edgewater-based Cedille Records garners another Grammy Nomination|url=http://www.insideonline.com/site/epage/22984_162.htm|work=Inside|access-date=2011-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330130837/http://www.insideonline.com/site/epage/22984_162.htm|archive-date=2012-03-30|url-status=dead}} In 2008 the ensemble eighth blackbird won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for their album strange imaginary animals.{{cite web|title=strange imaginary animals|url=http://cedillerecords.org/music/product_info.php?products_id=509|work=Cedille Records Website}} In the same year, Judith Sherman won the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical for her work with the label. strange imaginary animals was included among her production credits along with Jennifer Koh's album String Poetic, which was nominated in the Best Chamber Music Performance category in the same year.{{cite web|title=strange imaginary animals|url=http://cedillerecords.org/music/product_info.php?products_id=509|work=Cedille Website}} In 2009, Ursula Oppens' album Oppens Plays Carter was nominated for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) in 2009.{{cite web|title=Ursula Oppens at Van Cliburn Foundation, Harvard and beyond|url=http://www.colbertartists.com/artistbio.asp?ID=41&DT=New|work=Colbert Artists Management|access-date=2011-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103081935/http://www.colbertartists.com/ArtistBio.asp?ID=41&DT=New|archive-date=2014-11-03|url-status=dead}} Most of those nominated for Grammy Awards and an additional thirty-one albums released on the label have received Classics Today's highest rating, 10/10.{{cite web|title=Cedille Records|url=http://cedillerecords.org/music/index.php|work=Cedille Records Website|access-date=2011-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805074623/http://cedillerecords.org/music/index.php|archive-date=2011-08-05|url-status=dead}}

The song "Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera" from A Vivaldi Concert was featured in the documentary Pale Male, an episode of the documentary series Nature on PBS.{{cite web|title=PBS|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/pale-male/production-credits/2421/|work=Pale Male Production Credits|access-date=2017-08-25|archive-date=2013-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113174915/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/pale-male/production-credits/2421/|url-status=dead}}

Roster

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See also

References

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External links

  • [http://www.cedillerecords.org Official website]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120220104120/http://www.insideonline.com/site/epage/14066_162.htm Inside Publications profile of Cedille Records and James Ginsberg (2004)]

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Category:Record labels established in 1989

Category:American independent record labels

Category:Companies based in Chicago

Category:Classical music record labels