New Internet platform for classical music
The start-up Idagio presented a new internet platform for the distribution of classical music at the Salzburg Festival. Partners include the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
More and more orchestras and instrumentalists are producing their own recordings these days. According to the company's press release, Idagio gives them "for the first time the opportunity to make current recordings or their archives easily available via a platform specially created for classical music".
In addition to a curated catalog already comprising several thousand hours of recordings by Karajan, Bernstein, Szell, Solti, Furtwängler, Böhm, Giulini, Maria Callas, Arthur Rubinstein and many others, the partners are represented with numerous recordings under conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Lorin Maazel, Sir Charles Mackerras, Georges Prêtre and Franz Welser-Möst.
In June 2015, Idagio received an investment from Australian private equity investor Macquarie Capital, the European investor network b-to-v and other business angels.
More info: www.idagio.com
