Aboutmyrios classics
Since its creation in 2009, myrios classics has forged close ties with world-class artists such as Kirill Gerstein, Tabea Zimmermann, Jörg Widmann, the Hagen Quartet and François-Xavier Roth. The Cologne-based label’s carefully curated releases have received widespread critical praise and multiple awards, including the ECHO and OPUS KLASSIK, ICMA, and Diapason d’Or de l’année, and are regularly selected as Editor’s Choice by Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. The myrios classics catalogue embraces the richness of repertoire from Baroque concertos and sonatas to music by Adès, Widmann and Knussen. myrios' releases include, for example, Tabea Zimmermann’s SOLO II, an anthology of works by J.S. Bach and György Kurtág and a coupling of clarinet quintets by Mozart and Jörg Widmann, performed by Widmann and the Hagen Quartet. Other highlights include Thomas Adès’s In Seven Days, and the world premiere recordings of his Berceuse and the concert paraphrase on Powder Her Face for two pianos, performed by the composer and Kirill Gerstein; and Richard Strauss’s melodrama Enoch Arden, narrated by Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire, Downfall) in what proved to be his final recording.