In-Depth with Jared Sacks, Channel Classics Label artistic director and recording engineer

Recording engineer/producer Jared Sacks is a key figure in the classical recording industry. He founded Channel Classics Records in 1990 and worked extensively with Rachel Podger, Iván Fischer, Pieter Wispelwey, Anna Fedorova, Rosanne Philippens, Dana Zemtsov, and many others, on more than 400 recordings he all made himself.

In the second part, we open up the floor for questions. What is the function of a label, how does it help an artist, what does the market look like now in terms of CDs vs. downloading and streaming, how does it work when you would like to be signed by a label, how do you approach a label?