A significant release by the label was the 180-CD The Complete Mozart Edition, which featured all works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, known at the set's publication in 1990–1991 for the bicentenary of the composer's death. It was re-released as the Complete Compact Mozart Edition.
Parent Universal Music Group, which was formed in 1999 from the merger of the PolyGram and MCA families of labels, merged the label into Decca Records, because the new parent did not have the rights to the Philips name, while PolyGram was a subsidiary of the Philips company. The name Philips Classics still exists but appears on no new recordings and the Philips Classics Internet presence is within Decca's Web site.
philips, classics, records, this, article, does, cite, sources, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, january, 2011, learn, . This article does not cite any sources Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Philips Classics Records news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2011 Learn how and when to remove this template message Philips Classics was started in the 1980s as the new classics record label for Philips Records It was successful with artists including Alfred Brendel Sir John Eliot Gardiner Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Mitsuko Uchida Julian Lloyd Webber Sir Colin Davis and Andre Rieu A significant release by the label was the 180 CD The Complete Mozart Edition which featured all works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart known at the set s publication in 1990 1991 for the bicentenary of the composer s death It was re released as the Complete Compact Mozart Edition Parent Universal Music Group which was formed in 1999 from the merger of the PolyGram and MCA families of labels merged the label into Decca Records because the new parent did not have the rights to the Philips name while PolyGram was a subsidiary of the Philips company The name Philips Classics still exists but appears on no new recordings and the Philips Classics Internet presence is within Decca s Web site See also EditList of record labelsExternal links EditDecca amp Philips Classics nbsp This article about a record label is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Philips Classics Records amp oldid 1175045882, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
