{{Short description|German record label}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{use list-defined references|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Cybele Records | image = | image_size = | founded = {{Start date|1994}} | founder = {{ill|Ingo Schmidt-Lucas|de}} | distributor = | genre = Classical music | country = Germany | location = Düsseldorf | url = {{URL|https://www.cybele.de/}} }} '''Cybele Records''' is a German record label based in Düsseldorf, specializing in classical music, namely contemporary music.<ref name="MIZ" /> Founded in 1994, their motto is "Klassik der Zukunft" (Classics of the future), focused on contemporary composers and advanced recording technologies such as Super Audio CD and surround sound.
== History == The company was founded in 1994 by {{ill|Ingo Schmidt-Lucas|de}} who planned to publish contemporary music, literature and rarely recorded piece (''Nischenrepertoire''), but also to present classical music in a new sound.<ref name="MIZ" /><ref name="Müller" /> Cybele published "portraits" of contemporary composers such as Peter-Jan Wagemans<ref name="Wagemans" /> and Graham Waterhouse, both in 2001.<ref name="Waterhouse" /><ref name="Culot" />
In 2004 they celebrated their 10th anniversary with a CD of works by various artists and composers.<ref name="Allmusic" /> They then began to publish ''Hörbücher'' (audiobooks) in a series ''Künstler im Gespräch'', with Mirjam Wiesemann talking to artists about their music. In 2009 the label was awarded the ECHO Classic for the audio book ''Die Prinzessin – Kindergeschichten, geschrieben und gesprochen von Arnold Schönberg''.<ref name="Müller" /> The edition of audio books received several awards, including in 2011 the prize for "Beste verlegerische Leistung" (best editorial achievement) of the Deutscher Hörbuchpreis.<ref name="Hörbuch" />
In 2009 Cybele recorded a first volume of ''Piano Works During & After Russian Futurism'', played by Thomas Günther, including works by Nikolai Obuchov, Ivan Wyschnegradsky and Sergei Protopopov. A second volume followed in 2014, with works by Arthur Vincent Lourie and Protopopov.<ref name="Berghaus" /> In 2016 they published the complete organ works of Max Reger, played by Martin Schmeding on thirteen different organs from the composer's time; the recording was selected as "recording of the month" (October) by MusicWeb International.<ref name="Clements" />
==See also== * List of record labels
==References== {{reflist | 30em | refs =
<ref name="Berghaus">{{cite book | editor-last = Berghaus | editor-first = Günter | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=s50FCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA588 | chapter = Futurism in Sound Recordings | title = 2015 / International Yearbook of Futurism Studies | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 2015 | page = 588 | isbn = 9783110422818 | language = de }}</ref>
<ref name="Clements">{{cite web | last = Clements | first = Dominy | url = https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2016/Oct/Reger_organ_051500.htm | title = Recording of the month / Max Reger (1873–1916) / Complete Organ Works | publisher = musicweb-international.com | year = 2016 | access-date = 2 November 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="Culot">{{cite web | last = Culot | first = Hubert | url = https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/july04/Waterhouse.htm | title = Graham Waterhouse (b. 1962) | year = 2004 | access-date = 14 August 2009 }}</ref>
<ref name="Müller">{{cite news | last = Müller | first = Regine | url = http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/echo-klassik-geht-nach-duesseldorf-heerdt-aid-1.1138319 | title = Auszeichnung / "Echo Klassik" geht nach Düsseldorf-Heerdt | newspaper = Rheinische Post | date = 26 October 2009 | language = de | access-date = 8 November 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic | class = album | id = mw0001852486 | title = 10 Jahre / 10 years / Cybele Records; SACD Sampler & Catalogue 2004 | year = 2005 | access-date = 2 November 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="Hörbuch">{{cite web | url = http://www.deutscher-hoerbuchpreis.de/archiv/dhp-2011/detailansicht/preistraeger/?no_cache=1&hbuid=6 | title = Deutscher Hörbuchpreis 2011 in der Kategorie "Beste verlegerische Leistung" / Edition Künstler im Gespräch / Cybele Records | publisher = Deutscher Hörbuchpreis | year = 2011 | language = de | access-date = 2 November 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="MIZ">{{cite web | url = http://www.miz.org/details_11854_256.html | title = Cybele Records | publisher = Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum | language = de | access-date = 2 November 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="Wagemans">{{cite web | url = https://www.cybele.de/portrait-peter-jan-wagemans | title = Portrait Peter-Jan Wagemans | publisher = Cybele | year = 2001 | access-date = 2 November 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="Waterhouse">{{cite web | url = https://www.cybele.de/portrait-graham-waterhouse | title = Portrait Graham Waterhouse | publisher = Cybele | year = 2001 | access-date = 2 November 2016 }}</ref>
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==External links== * {{official website|https://www.cybele.de/}} * [https://www.hd-klassik.com/about-cybele-records Cybele Records – Klassik der Zukunft / Das entdeckerfreudige Label für neue und klassische Musik und für Literatur] (in German) hd-klassik.com
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