Welcome to HNE Rights!
"HNE" stands for "Happy New Ears" - we are committed to exploratory curation of all our activities and hope you join us on our journey.
With four record labels, a sheet music publishing division, our own webstore, and an associated ensemble, we are among Europe’s most diversified music businesses. Founded in Vienna in 2009 as “paladino music” to create a high-quality platform for my musician friends’ projects and with an entrepreneurial vision of artistic sustainability, working in opposition to the rapidly growing tendency to first push and then quickly forget an artist, paladino has continued to grow into a boutique, but internationally recognized musical enterprise. In 2011 and 2013, we created two new record labels, and in 2015 managed to acquire KAIROS – our biggest and most important step expanding our catalogue so far. We celebrated our first big anniversary year (ten years of paladino and 20 years of KAIROS) in 2019, and made a further step towards diversification in 2022, when paladino was renamed to "HNE Rights" so that the holding company steps into the background from our brands. We continue to have many exciting releases and special offers on our various sites, so do visit regularly!
Whether you are a listener, a musician or working in music-related industries, our small and dedicated team will continue to work for and with you to bring some of the most exciting music to life. We are proud to be connected with some of the world’s leading music companies, including an international network of distributors for our recordings and Universal Edition for the distribution of our sheet music.
Enjoy browsing our various sites, sign up for our newsletter, follow us on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, and do not hesitate to get in touch with us directly if you have suggestions or comments, or if you want to bring your own project to us. I look forward to hearing from you.
Martin Rummel
Founding Partner & Artistic Director
paladino music, the origin of paladino media, has become our label for chamber and orchestral recordings of art music of all epochs. Artists like Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christopher Hinterhuber, Dimitri Ashkenazy or the Quatuor Mosaïques have contributed to the international reputation of paladino music. Alongside with publishing some of the world’s most renowned artists, we are equally committed to nurturing young performers and presenting Austrian composers and musicians.
Orlando Records, founded in 2011, presents recitals and mixed programmes, which we curate and develop in close collaboration with the artists and ensembles involved. The range goes from intimate solo wind or piano recitals to large-scale projects such as a 14-CD box with 84 world premiere recordings of works by composers from fifteen countries, chansons and film music. Each project is the result of a unique collaboration between the artists involved and our team, and we look forward to helping many more unique artistic ideas come to life!
KAIROS is by many regarded to be the world’s leading label for contemporary music. Founded in 1999 by the late Peter Oswald, it became part of paladino media in 2015. We will continue to dedicate ourselves in an uncompromising manner to the adventure of New Music, with the conviction that this music is essential to our lives. Our catalogue includes some of the world’s greatest composers and performers, and many of our recordings have won international awards. We invite you to join us on our exciting journey of exploring the world’s finest New Music!
Austrian Gramophone published its first recording in 2015, and has since provided a platform for artists to fulfil their dreams of a recording, which marks in most cases their debut in the industry. We often help with advice around the recording process itself, or how to approach other aspects of producing the physical product. We are proud to have created this platform for making all these interesting artists and their recordings enter the world.
Our own HNE Store is your one-stop webstore to all our products – and more: Besides our own recordings and those of the labels we distribute, our scores and the option to download our sheet music, you will find books and strings to purchase. And because you made it reading to this point, we will reward you with an instant 5% discount on any purchase if you type MADEIT into the discount voucher field upon checkout. Happy shopping!
paladino editions began in 2012, and now has five series of publications to which we add continuously. “Classics of our time” presents music of the 20th and 21st century, including some of Austria’s important composers of today. “popper@paladino” aims to publish all extant works by David Popper, “classics@paladino” consists of original works of the 18th to 20th centuries, while “arrangements@paladino” presents arrangements of such classics by some of the finest musicians around. Our “edition ensemble paladino” accompanies the ensemble’s unique projects for music lovers to recreate some of its programming. All our editions are available as hard copies and as downloads for sale.
ensemble paladino is a mixed group of string, wind and keyboard players based throughout Central Europe. All renowned soloists, recording artists and pedagogues in their own right, ensemble paladino draws upon the rich experiences of each player, making it both a democratic and organic structure. A critical component to the ensembles existence is its programming. Each player has the privilege of working together in many different constellations, therefore allowing for dynamic programming.