- Telarc International Corporation
Telarc International Corporation is an
independent record label , based inCleveland, Ohio ,United States , and founded in 1977 by two classically trained musicians and former teachers, Jack Renner and Robert Woods. Originally aclassical music -only label, the label has had a long association with Ohio's two most famous orchestras: theCincinnati Symphony Orchestra and theCleveland Orchestra , as well as theAtlanta Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Telarc has since released music from other styles of music includingjazz ,blues andcountry music .In1996 , Telarc merged with another independent label, Heads Up, now a Telarc subsidiary.In late 2005 both Telarc and Heads Up were bought by
Concord Records . Today both labels operate as semi-autonomous units on theConcord Music Group . [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=musicNews&storyID=2005-12-19T071952Z_01_FLE926382_RTRIDST_0_MUSIC-MUSIC-CONCORD-DC.XML]The Telarc Sound
Telarc was noticed for the high quality of its recordings, encapsulated in the slogan "The Telarc Sound". [http://www.telarc.com/about/history2.asp?mscssid=AG088LLVRR8W9KGG95QGPBWRQEGW5U33] Its
engineer s are highly regarded within the recording business [http://www.telarc.com/about/history2.asp?mscssid=AG088LLVRR8W9KGG95QGPBWRQEGW5U33] . In 2004 it received the "Label Of The Year" Award from Gramophone Magazine. [http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awardstemplate.asp?id=939&award_year=2004] Telarc was one of the first labels to begin recording music with a 20-bitanalog-to-digital converter (ADC) in the late 1980s and started using 24-bit formats since 1996. Currently, the majority of Telarc's releases are (generally hybrid) SACDs based on DSD recordings.See also
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List of record labels
*Jack Renner (recording engineer) External links
* [http://www.telarc.com/ Official site]
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