[ 40 years in high fidelity ]

Fonè Records

In the world of classical and jazz music recording, for over 40 years fonè has been using advanced techniques, aimed at re-creating the atmosphere of the original performance.
Each new recording is the result of an enthusiastic encounter between the art of performance and the art of recording, and aims to reproduce the spirit with which works of the past were executed. One basic feature, which determines the difference between fonè and other record companies, is the recording of performances in their natural spaces, that is in the places where they were originally presented. This leads to a constant search for suitable locations, and the choice of churches, theatres, country mansions, drawing rooms and so on.
The recordings are carried out with the utmost simplicity, the only way not to do violence to the music: all the equipment is high fidelity; use is made of valve-type paired microphones manufactured in the years 1947 and 1949 (U47, U48 and M49) with an extremely natural and transparent timbre and a bi-microphonic field effect; these microphones have a very important history: they were used to record the Beatles at the Abbey Road Studio and by the RCA for the “Living Stereo” recordings.
No use is made of electronic manipulation or artificial correction of the signal, which while making sound easier to realise also render it unacceptably unnatural. With this method, the musical information can be transferred to the analogue standard (for Lp virgin vinyl 180gr. and 200gr.), to the digital standard DSD-SACD (for Super Audio CD) and to the new digital standard DSD-Signoricci (for the Signoricci CD and CD GOLD 24K).

fonè uses for the analogue standard Nagra 4S, Studer C37 and J37 and Ampex ATR 102 machines; for the digital standard, in collaboration with Philips the latest DSD (Direct Stream Digital) technology, that has opened the doors to SACD. For all successive stages of elaboration and control where replay is required, highly sophisticated systems of musical recording are used.

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They recorded with Fonè

Jazz music artists

  • Doc Powell
  • Rodney Franklin
  • Reggie Hamilton
  • Michael Baker
  • Tiziana Simona
  • Kenny Wheeler
  • Giuseppina Runza
  • Jean-Jacques Avenel
  • Nene Limafilho
  • Darek Oles
  • EveAnna Manley
  • Battista Lena
  • Fulvio Sigurtà
  • Scott Hamilton
  • Andrea Pozza
  • Andrea Pozza
  • Paolo Fresu
  • Roberto Gatto
  • Stefano Bollani
  • Enzo Pietropaoli
  • Eleonora Bianchini
  • Alessandro Paternesi
  • Julian Mazzariello
  • Riccardo Zegna
  • Giampaolo Casati
  • Paolo Birro
  • Alfred Kramer
  • Peo Alfonsi
  • Salvatore Maiore
  • Aldo Zunino
  • Anna Maria Castelli
  • Renato Sellani
  • Gianni Coscia
  • Dino Piana
  • Fausto Mesolella
  • Rita Marcotulli
  • Italian Big Band
  • Marco Renzi
  • Marcello Rosa
  • Scott Joplin
  • George Gershwin
  • Irving Berlin
  • Paul Whiteman
  • Gaby Cole
  • Marco Pezzenati
  • Todd Cochran
  • James Leary
  • Clayton Cameron
  • Michael O’Neil
  • Munyungo Jackson
  • Frances Awe
  • Lenny Castro
  • Maurice Dosso
  • Angel Figueroa
  • Bill Summers
  • Rabia Rayford
  • Otmar Ruiz
  • Pedro Eustacio
  • Robert Greenidge
  • Rayford Griffin
  • Karen Briggs
  • Karen Knowles
  • Sekou Bunch
  • Louis Verdieu
  • James Earl
  • Walfredo Reyes
  • Bill Summers
  • Josh Sklair
  • Frank Crawford
  • Ron Ross
  • Jack Le Compte
  • David Garfield
  • Michael O’Neil
  • Larry Klimas
  • John Leftwich
  • Efrain Toro
  • Art Rodriguez
  • Kate McGarry
  • Paul Kreibich
  • Karen Hammack
  • Eric Von Essen
  • Jim Dawson
  • Sam Sklair
  • Seth David Walter
  • Mick Gaffney
  • Bruce Bishop
  • Frank Crawford
  • Vickie Leigh
  • Josh Sklair
  • Bill Von Ravensberg
  • Brown Burnett
  • Jim Christopher
  • Reggie Hamilton
  • Bob Summers
  • Paolo Conte
  • Riccardo Chailly
  • Gewandhaus Orchester
  • Elaine Delmar
  • Brian Smith

Classical music artists

  • Caroline Doerge
  • New Arca Trio
  • Pier Carlo Villani
  • Roberto Prosseda
  • Alessandra Ammara
  • Filippo Maria Bressan
  • Paola Colaceci
  • Renato Vielmi
  • Simonetta Cavalli
  • Vincenzo Di Donato
  • Garrick Comeaux
  • Monica Pelliciari
  • Elisa Imbalzano
  • Daniele Cernuto
  • Pietro Prosser
  • Romano Vettori
  • Accademia di Musica Antica – Ensemble Vocale e Strumentale di Rovereto
  • Natalia Lomeiko
  • Olga Sitkovetsky
  • Roberto Frontali
  • Pierre Lefebvre
  • Marco Balderi
  • Gert Hecher
  • Bruce Brubaker
  • Gliarchiensemble

Pop music artists

  • Kinan Azmeh
  • Vasco Rossi
  • Sandro Andreini
  • Beppe Danese
  • Attilio Fantolini
  • Tina Andrei
  • Giorgio Fontanelli
  • Blue Lu – Luca Mainiardi
  • The Lindsay Kemp Company
  • Carlos Miranda
  • Musica Nuda – Petra Magoni e Ferruccio Spinetti
  • Dolcenera
  • Pino Daniele
  • Ornella Vanoni
  • Vinicius de Moraes
  • Toquiniho
  • Renzo Arbore

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Places

Memories and the prestige of places

  • Abbazia di Montecassino
  • Auditorium Museo Piaggio
  • Auditorium Parco della musica – Roma
  • Aula del Senato – Palazzo Madama – Roma
  • Basilica di San Gavino – Porto Torres (SS)
  • Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore – Bergamo
  • Cappella San Ranieri – Livorno
  • Basilica Santa Sabina – Roma
  • Il Castello – Certaldo
  • Castello Ursino – Catania
  • Cattedrale di S. Sigismondo – Cremona
  • Chiesa di San Marco – Rovereto (TN)
  • Duomo Vecchio – Brescia
  • Palazzo Cavalcabò – Cremona
  • Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra – Roma
  • Sala Caetani – Giardini di Ninfa
  • Sala Pinsent – La Foce (SI)
  • Teatro Ponchielli – Cremona
  • Teatro Regio – Parma
  • Teatro Regio – Torino
  • Teatro della Villa Aldovrandi Mazzacorati – Bologna
  • Teatro di San Carlo – Napoli
  • Teatro di Wexford
  • Teatro Donizetti – Bergamo
  • Teatro Goldoni – Livorno
  • Teatro Grande – Brescia
  • Teatro degli Industri – Grosseto
  • Teatro Artaud – Londra
  • Teatro Verdi – Pisa
  • Teatro Zandonai – Rovereto (TN)
  • Teatro Persio Flacco – Volterra
  • Teatro della Villa Aldovrandi Mazzacorati – Bologna
  • Villa Maionchi – Lucca
  • Villa Antonietta – Crespina (PI)
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Partners

The partners who have chosen fonè over the years…

  • Fondazione Piaggio – Museo Piaggio
  • Senato della Repubblica
  • Audiogamma
  • Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
  • Alitalia – ATI
  • Fendi
  • Philips Consumer Electronics Italia
  • Philips Proprietà intellettuale e standard – Olanda
  • Philips Intellectual property and standard – Holland
  • Istituto di Cultura Francese di Londra
  • Creativitalia
  • Joking
  • Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo
  • Cremona Città della Musica
  • Incontri in Terra di Siena
  • CGIL Camera del Lavoro di Napoli
  • Accademia Roveretana di Musica Antica
  • Volkswagen
  • Fidenza Vetraria
  • Banca Popolare di Milano
  • Italcementi
  • Firema Trasporti
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Fonè feat

Special fonè editions for…

  • Università Luigi Bocconi – Milano
  • Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa
  • CAB Compagnie di Assicurazioni di Bologna
  • ELSAG
  • AudioReview
  • Comune di Livorno
  • Comune di Cremona
  • Rotel
  • BNL Banca Nazionale del Lavoro
  • UNIPOL
  • Onkyo
  • Selenia
  • Selenia Spazio
  • Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa
  • CELES