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Masterprize
Tel: +44 (0)20 7233 0111 Masterprize site designed by Room101 Ltd |
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CLASSIC FM
With 6.9 million listeners a week and more than 10 million listeners a month, Classic FM is the largest commercial radio station in the UK and the largest classical music station anywhere in the world. Launched on 7 September 1992, Classic FM is the flagship station of the GWR Group plc, the largest pure radio group in the UK. Roger Lewis, Managing Director and Programme Controller of Classic FM, was a founding director and trustee of Masterprize during his time as Managing Director of the classical division of EMI.
CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE
Classic FM Magazine is the welcoming face of classical music on the news stand. Whether you're new to classical music or a life-long follower, it's a one-stop shop for great music, star interviews, exciting features and the best new releases. Every issue comes with a cover CD, building month by month into a collection of the world's greatest works. The magazine's watchword is 'inclusivity', an approach that has clearly struck a chord with thousands of new and experienced music lovers who over the past 12 months have helped grow sales of the magazine to record levels.
EMI
EMI Classics is a division of EMI Music and is the foremost and longest established classical music company in the world.
Based in the UK, EMI Classics is responsible for a worldwide business operating through EMI's companies and licensees in some 60 countries. EMI has enjoyed long recording relationships with many of the greatest artists of the 20th century including Maria Callas, Pablo Casals, Herbert von Karajan and Yehudi Menuhin. Artists currently under contract include Sir Simon Rattle, Mstislav Rostropovich, Antonio Pappano, Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna and the artist/composer Thomas Ades.
EMI Classic's involvement in Masterprize reflects the EMI Group's commitment both to music education and contemporary music.
GRAMOPHONE
Gramophone was founded 80 years ago by the novelist and writer Compton Mackenzie to respond to the relatively new medium, the gramophone recording. In nearly eight decades of existence Gramophone has secured and maintained its position as the most authoritative magazine on classical music on record in the world. Mackenzie's mission statement to obtain 'the finest opinions procurable' still stands and the magazine publishes some of the leading music critics in the English language. Ever keen to maintain its relevance and topicality, Gramophone has commented on the new innovations of its time: electrical recording, the LP, stereo, quadraphonics, digital recording, CD, SACD and DVD and in the coming months Gramophone will start to review streamed and downloadable music. Gramophone's annual Awards, which recently celebrated their 25th anniversary, are widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious of their kind, often referred to as 'the Oscars of classical music'. www.gramophone.co.uk, the magazine's web presence, which contains an archive of some 23,000 CD reviews, was last year voted No 1 classical music magazine site by Google.
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The London Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1904, and was the UK's first independent, self-governing orchestra. It is now the resident orchestra at the Barbican in London, where it gives about 90 concerts per year. The Orchestra tours extensively, performing concerts to audiences all over the world and collaborating with artists of the highest calibre. The LSO is also noted for the extraordinary number of film soundtracks it has recorded, and for its award-winning education and community programme, LSO Discovery.
NPR
NPR®, renowned for journalistic excellence and standard-setting news, information and cultural programming, serves a growing audience of more than 16 million Americans each week via more than 640 public radio stations. NPR Online at www.npr.org brings hourly newscasts, news features, commentaries and live events to Internet users through original online reports, audio streaming and other multimedia elements. NPR also distributes programming to listeners in Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa via NPR Worldwide, to military installations overseas via American Forces Network and throughout Japan via cable.