Phaedra (CD label)

Phaedra's logo

Phaedra is a CD label whose aim it is "to publish works written between 1830 and the present by Flemish (and occasionally Belgian) composers, and to promote them world-wide".[1] The label used to be a subdivision of "Klassieke Concerten vzw" and was therefore not a commercial undertaking: as it was a subdivision of a "vzw", an association without lucrative purpose, Belgian law forbade it to make a profit.

But on 15 February 2019 Phaedra's founder Luc Famaey ceded the label to Dutch Music Works, a besloten vennootschap from Valkenswaard,[2] which "will be the keeper as well as the distributor of all that has been recorded [by Phaedra] up till now."[3]

Phaedra was founded in 1992 by Luc Famaey. Its 2020 catalog[4] lists 143 CDs, which contain works by some 250 composers, issued in two series, In Flanders' Fields (102 CDs) and Phaedra Classics (40 CDs), plus one CD in a series called Mouseion, which was started but discontinued immediately.

Luc Famaey, in his speech of thanks for the 2010 ANV-Visser Neerlandia Prize
  1. ^ Tops 2020:6.
  2. ^ Facebook page of Dutch Music Works.
  3. ^ Famaey in Tops 2020:5.
  4. ^ Tops 2020.