# Signum Records

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{{Short description|Classical musical record label founded in 1997}}
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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name         = Signum Records
| image        = <!-- logo, such as "LABEL-LOGO.jpg" -->
| image_size  = <!-- size -->
| founded      = {{start date|1997}}
| founder       = <!-- name of founders, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| distributor   = [Naxos Records](/source/Naxos_Records), [Harmonia Mundi](/source/Harmonia_Mundi)
| genre         = [Classical](/source/Classical_music)
| country       = UK
| location      = Middlesex, England
| url             = {{URL|www.signumrecords.com}}
}}

'''Signum Records''', also known as '''Signum Classics''',<ref name="About Us">{{cite web|title=About Us - Signum Records|url=https://signumrecords.com/about-us/|website=signumrecords.com|accessdate=29 January 2018}}</ref> is a classical musical record label in the UK founded in 1997.

The label began with a project to make the first recording of the complete works of [Thomas Tallis](/source/Thomas_Tallis). 
The artists for the Tallis recording were the Chapelle du Roi, an ensemble of ten singers founded in 1994 by Alistair Dixon, also co-founder of the record label.<ref>Early Music Network & News 1997 "Signum Records SIGGCD001 (71 ' 52") A new record company and an ambitious new project: no less than the complete works of Tallis on nine CDs. Chapelle du Rol, a group of ten singers founded in 1994, has already given concerts of the ...</ref> The other fifty percent of the company was held by Floating Earth sound engineers. Since the Tallis project the label has grown to host many well-known UK ensembles, including [The Kings Singers](/source/The_Kings_Singers), the [Philharmonia Orchestra](/source/Philharmonia_Orchestra), the [Choir of St John's College, Cambridge](/source/Choir_of_St_John's_College%2C_Cambridge), [Huddersfield Choral Society](/source/Huddersfield_Choral_Society), Charivari Agreable, [Tenebrae](/source/Tenebrae_(choir)) directed by Nigel Short, [Voces8](/source/Voces8), [Cantabile](/source/Cantabile_(group)) and the [choir of His Majesty's Chapel Royal](/source/Chapel_Royal), who record at [St James's Palace](/source/St_James's_Palace), London.

In 2017 they were named [Gramophone Magazine](/source/Gramophone_(magazine))'s Label of the Year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2017/label-of-the-year|title=Label of the Year|last=Gramophone|date=2017-09-13|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-10-10}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official|https://signumrecords.com/}}

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Category:British record labels

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