Angel Records | |
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Parent company | Universal Music Group |
Founded | 1953 |
Founder | Dorle Soria Dario Soria |
Defunct | 2006 |
Status | Inactive |
Genre | Classical music Broadway |
Country of origin | U.S. |
Angel Records was a record label founded by EMI in 1953. It specialised in classical music, but included an occasional operetta or Broadway score. and one Peter Sellers comedy disc. The famous Recording Angel trademark was used by the Gramophone Company, EMI and its affiliated companies from 1898. The label has been inactive since 2006, when it dissolved and reassigned its active artists and catalogue while retaining its recent catalogue to sister labels EMI Classics, Virgin Classics and Manhattan Records and its musical theatre artists and catalogue to another sister label, Capitol Records.