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SONY Masterworks (1590 words) |
 | CBS President, William F. Paley, installs Edward Wallerstein as president of the new Columbia Recording Corp. (CRC). |
| Eugene Ormandy's recording of the Franck Symphony in D minor with the Philadelphia Orchestra becomes a best-seller. |
| CBS Masterworks celebrates the "100th Birthday" of Charles Ives with a comprehensive box set including previously unavailable recordings by Ives himself. |
| Sony Classical Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (246 words) |
| Sony Classical Records was started in 1927 as Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of the American Columbia Records. |
| In 1948 (renamed to Columbia Masterworks Records), it issued the first long-playing 12" record. |
| In 1980 the Columbia Masterworks label was renamed CBS Masterworks Records, but in 1990 after CBS Records was acquired by Sony it was finally renamed Sony Classical Records (Its logo echoes the Music Notes logo that was Columbia's emblem until 1955). |
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