Nonesuch

Label Code: LC 0286 / LC 00286.

US record label that is the trading name of [l=Nonesuch Records] / [l=Nonesuch Records Inc.] Releases with either “Nonesuch” or “Nonesuch Records” logos should use this label. Company credits as on release.

References to [l=Nonesuch Records Inc.] are the company identity and not the label.

[l=Elektra] indicates that Elektra Records was founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman. Under his leadership, Nonesuch was created in 1964 as a budget label for classical releases licensed from large classical record companies in Britain and France that did not have a cost-effective means to directly distribute their releases in North America. [url=/artist/681789]Bill Harvey[/url] designed the packaging, and releases were marketed as “Recordings at the Price of a Quality Paperback.” Nonesuch eventually hosted a large catalog of adventurous music from around the globe, and world-premiere recordings of contemporary composers of avant-garde, electronic and computer music.

[l=Warner Communications Inc.] provides the most coherent summary of ownership and identity changes from 1969 onward. As a division of Elektra, Nonesuch was also acquired by Warner Communications (Kinney/WEA at the time) in 1970. Releases from Elektra-based labels like Elektra, Nonesuch, and Asylum Records will usually state this affiliation as “A Division Of Warner Communications Inc.” ([l552180]).

[l=Elektra/Asylum Records] states that the Elektra and Asylum Records labels were combined in August 1973 to form label identities [l=Elektra/Asylum Records] and [l=Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records].

The identity [l=Elektra Nonesuch] was used for some releases from 1987 to 1995. Catalog entries for “Nonesuch” or “Nonesuch Records” continue through this period as well.

In 1994, [l=Warner Music International] became its parent label and later switched to [l=Atlantic] approximately 2001 to 2004.

A further merger of the Elektra and Atlantic labels took place in mid 2004. Thereafter, Nonesuch has been identified as a sub-label of [l=Warner Bros. Records] within the [l=Warner Music Group], continuing to use the established Elektra UPC prefix and numbering system.