Besides the monographic albums of new music released by the label, Neu offers recording and music production services to other labels, like Sony Classical, Kairos, Col Legno, Harmonia Mundi and many others.
Neu has made hundreds of classical and contemporary music recordings for labels, radios and televisions, as well as selected surround new music albums for Neu Records label. As producers, we specialize in recordings of classical and contemporary music, as well as in systems for surround and 3D recording and reproduction.
Neu was related to Catalunya Música –the National classical music station of Catalonia– and RTP Antena 2 (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal), both classical music stations that participates in EBU (European Broadcasting Union). N has recorded more than 1.000 classical and contemporary concerts in the most prestigious venues of Catalonia and Portugal: l’Auditori, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Palau de la Música Catalana, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Casa da Música, Festival Castell de Peralada, Festival de Músiques de Torroella de Montgrí, Schubertiade Vilabertran, etc.
RECORDED ARTISTS (Selection)
Orchestras and ensembles
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Il Giardino Armonico, Freiburger Barockorchester, Orchestre National de France, Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Orchestre de la Suïsse Romande, Orquestra de Cadaqués, Orquestra Simfònica i Cor del Gran Teatre del Liceu, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Europa Galante, Le Concert des Nations, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, CrossingLines Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Quatour Diotima, Modigliani Quartet, Arditti string Quartet, Cuarteto Casals, Pavel Haas Quartet, Trio Parnassus, Fine Arts Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet, Trio Capuçon, Apollon Musagète Quartett, Latvian Radio Choir, RIAS Kammerchor, Collegium Vocale Gent, Stile Antico, St Petersburg State Capella Choir, Neue Vocalsolisten de Stuttgart, Nederlans Kamerkoor…
Artists
René Jacobs, Daniele Gatti, Giovanni Antonini, Christian Zacharias, Eiji Oue, Jordi Savall, Josep Pons, Franz-Paul Decker, Oliver Knussen, Sebastian Weigle, Giovanni Antonini, Mikhaïl Pletnev, Peter Phillips, Jesús López Cobos, Daniel Barenboim, Sondra Radvanovsky, Juan Diego Flórez, Jonas Kaufmann, Juliane Banse, Barbara Hannigan, Diana Damrau, Anna Netrebko, Christianne Stotijn, Nikolay Borchev, Andreas Scholl, John Potter, Martha Argerich, Valeriy Sokolov, Evgeni Bozhanov, Bertrand Chamayou, Leif Ove Andsnes, Khatia Buniatishvili, Mihaela Ursuleasa, Julius Drake, Wolfram Rieger, Arthur Schoonderwoerd, Olivier Latry, Simon Johnson, Mischa Maisky, Eckart Runge, Piotr Beczala, Andreas Staier, Ferhan & Ferzan Önder, Alexei Lubimov, Christian Tetzlaff, Viktoria Mullova, Gidon Kremer, Daniel Sepec, Hilary Hahn, Pekka Kuusisto, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Barbara Hendricks, Alisa Weilerstein, Sol Gabetta, Benjamin Alard, Erik Bosgraaf, Vadim Repin, Alice Sara Ott, Lars Vogt, Thomas Quasthoff, Fabio Biondi, Ian Bostridge, Mojca Erdmann, Maria Hinojosa, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Bejun Mehta, Felicity Lott, Philippe Jaroussky, Christine Schäfer, Rudolf Buchbinder, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ida Falk Winland, Roberto Alagna, Alexandre Tharaud, Iuliana Avdeieva, Xavier Sabata, Viviane Hagner, Daniel Müller-Schott, Jonathan Gilad, Silvia Perez Cruz, Sarah Chang, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Mikhail Ovrutsky, Christoph Prégardien, Javier Perianes, Sarah Maria Sun…
EQUIPMENT
Neu works with a selection of the highest quality recording equipment
We apply techniques and processes to capture with maximum transparency the natural timbre of voices, acoustic instruments, large scale orchestras and choirs. Our equipment includes a special multi-format microphone array design, that combines an association of different distances, angles and polar patterns, to produce not only a good sense of localization, but also an extremely natural timbre, and a sensation of space that music needs in order to expand and breathe.
The microphones, pre-amplifiers, AD/DA converters, and sound systems are specially chosen to guarantee natural perception of the music and of each acoustic space, whether in stereo, surround or 3D formats (surround 5.1, 7.1, and 3D for sound installations).
Microphones (Selection)
4 x DPA 4006-TL (two stereo matched kits)
5 x DPA 4015 (matched, surround kit)
2 x Schoeps CMC6 / MK21H (matched, stereo kit)
2 x Schoeps CMC6 / MK21 (matched, stereo kit)
2 x Schoeps CMC6 / MK5 (stereo matched pair)
2 x Schoeps CMC6 / MK4 (stereo matched pair)
2 x Schoeps CMC6 / MK4
Preamplifiers / Converters
2 x DAD AX32 (40 ch. Mic pre-amplifier, 40 ch state of the art AD converters, 16 ch. Line out DA converters / Sample rates up-to 384 kHz/DSD / High precision internal clock and PLL / Ethernet IP audio interface for 64 I/O ch.)
1 x Millennia HV 37 (2 Mic pre-amplifier)
1 x Focusrite ISA 428 (4 Mic pre-amplifier with switchable impedance)
1 x RME Fireface UFX+ (94 Input / 94 Output channels / 12 x Analog I/O / 4 x Mic/Instrument Preamp, digitally controlled / 1 x AES/EBU I/O / 2 x ADAT I/O (or 1 x ADAT I/O plus 1 x SPDIF I/O optical) / 1 x Word Clock I/O / MADI Coaxial / 1 x MADI optical I/O / 2 x MIDI I/O / 1 x Thunderbolt™ connectivity / 1 x USB 3.0)
Monitoring
Stereo Speakers Dynaudio AIR-25
Stereo Speakers Dynaudio Core 59
Surround Speakers System (7.1): 7 x Dynaudio BM6 + Subwoofer BM9
3D Speakers System (5.4.1) 5 x Dynaudio Lyd 7 + Subwoofer BM9
Headphones AKG k812 Pro