CLASSICAL Vinyl Labels – Labels Worldwide

Apart from those great brand name, there are some other labels all around the world.  In this section, they are listed and categorized by the country of origin.  They are:

  1. Chinese LABEL (Mainland China / Hong Kong / Taiwan)
  2. British LABEL
  3. French LABEL
  4. German LABEL
  5. Japanese LABEL 
Chinese label
In this parts, the labels in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan will be introduced.
Hong Kong label: the following are those famous LABEL from Hong Kong
HK RECORD Labels Feng Hang Record Labels Oriental Record Labels
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Hong Kong Record, is a very important brand name in Hong Kong.  They have lots of productions cooperated with JVC (Japan).  Their records exported to Japan, European countries and United States.
Feng Hang Records, which is a specialist in traditional Chinese Classical Music.
Hong Kong Oriental Records Co – most of their music is recorded in the Mainland China with the musicians in Mainland China.
Mainland China label: the following are those famous LABEL from Mainland China
China Record Labels
 

 

 

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China Record, which was the most important brand name in the Classical Music market in China.  (very important before 1980s)
Taiwan label: the following are those famous LABEL from Taiwan
SUNRISE Label
 

 

 

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SUNRISE唱片公司,出版了不少中樂或台灣音樂家演奏的古典音樂。
British label
The following are those British Label with fewer products.
BBC 系列的 Label
BBC Label
Lyrita Label
French label
The followings are French labels.  In Asian market, (except Japan) it is not popular for listening classical music from France.  In addition, the information of webmaster in French production is not much.
BELVEDERE Label  CALLIOPE Label FESTIVAL CLASSICAL Label
BELVEDERE (a small manufacturer) stereo label, its products was OEM by Deutsche Grammophon
CALLIOPE label (a small manufacturer), silver-grey background with black font
Festival Classique label
HARMONIA MUNDI Label
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Harmonia Mundi label (biggest French brand name), with many great titles
Harmonia Mundi label (Japanese)
ERATO Label
ERATO label, is a very vital brand name in France, with some great titles.
ERATO label (Japanese), at the bottom side, printed “Manufactured by RVC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan”
德國的label
The followings are the small labels in Germany.
ODEON的 Label  SCHWANN的 Label ACANTA的 Label
Odeon mono label
Schwann label, started their business in the 1970s
ACANTA label
EURODISC Label ORFEO的 Label
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Eurodisc promo label, black font on white label
Eurodisc Melodia label, brass label and black fonts
ORFEO is another small German brand name.  For this brand name,  big name musicians are not easily found but there are several great recordings.
Japanese labels (some of them)
The followings is just a very small part in the Japanese music industry.  However, the webmaster does not have much time to prepare the information of Japanese labels; so there is just a small portion has been listed.  Actually, there are more than 100 categories of labels for all Japanese producers.  We will try our best to share more information on this area.
SEVEN SEAS 的 Label  JVC Label Toshibi Label
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SEVEN SEAS Label, manufactured by King Record Co Ltd
JVC label
Toshibi label
SOUND DESIGN RECORD Label ZEN RECORD Label INVITATION Label
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SOUND DESIGN RECORD INC, manufactured by Polydor Japan
ZEN label, manufactured by Victor Musical Industries, Inc
INVITATION label, manufactured by Victor Musical Industries, Inc