Question: Who was a successful artist at Philips Classics Records?
Context: Instant Records was an American independent record label based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, which was founded in 1961 by Joe Banashak (owner of Minit Records) and Irvin Smith.  It was originally called Valiant Records until another Valiant Records threatened to sue and forced the label's renaming to Instant Records.  The most successful artist on Instant was Chris Kenner.  Several Instant recordings were distributed by Atlantic Records. The twelfth season of the Syfy reality television series Face Off (Styled as "Face Off: Divide & Conquer") premiered on June 13, 2017.  This season divides contestants into two competing FX shops.  Each week the teams designate one competitor the "foreman" or "forewoman", who designates group tasks, coordinates the project, and represents the team to the judges.  At the end of each challenge, the most successful artist from the winning team is declared the challenge winner, and the least successful artist from the losing team is eliminated. To commemorate the bicentenary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (December 5, 1791) Philips Classics Records assembled The Complete Mozart Edition comprising 180 compact discs arranged into 45 themed volumes.  Each volume in the series is accompanied by a deluxe booklet with detailed information about the works, with many illustrations.  Indicating the significance of this particular series, the words of the accompanying Compactotheque state, "...after the complete Shakespeare, the complete Goethe, or the complete Molière in book form, here is the Complete Mozart on discs." Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Dutch girl group Luv' by Philips/Phonogram Records.  It was rush-released in 1979 a few weeks after the formation had left Philips to sign a record deal with the labels CNR/Carrere Records.  It features hit singles scored in the charts between 1977 and 1979: My Man, U.O.Me, You're the Greatest Lover, Trojan Horse, Casanova and Eeny Meeny Miny Moe.  These songs were originally released in their first and second studio albums (With Luv' and Lots Of Luv').  The Philips/Phonogram years were the group's most successful ones in terms of chart performance. Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian pianist, poet and author, known particularly for his performances of Mozart, Schubert, Schoenberg, and especially Beethoven. Congress Records was a record label founded in 1962 by Neil Galligan who headed Canadian-American Records and brought with him Linda Scott from that label.  The label was sold the following year to Kapp Records.  Under Kapp, the most successful artist was Shirley Ellis.  Kapp rendered Congress inactive in 1966.  Kapp, including the Congress catalogue, was sold to MCA in 1967.  MCA reactivated Congress in 1969.  The most successful act for this incarnation of Congress was the Flying Machine.  Another notable act on Congress was Elton John but after a couple of unsuccessful singles on Congress, the label was discontinued in 1970 with Congress acts transferred to other MCA labels.  Elton John was transferred to Uni Records where he started having hits. A vanity label (see related topic on vanity press) is an informal name given sometimes to a record label founded as a wholly or partially owned subsidiary of another, larger and better established (at least at the time of the vanity label's founding) record label, where the subsidiary label is (at least nominally) controlled by a successful recording artist, designed to allow this artist to release music by other artists they admire.  The parent label handles the production and distribution and funding of the vanity label, but the album is usually released with the vanity label brand name prominent.  Usually, the artist/head of the vanity label is signed to the parent label, and this artist's own recordings will be released under the vanity label's brand name.  Creating a vanity label can be an attractive idea for the parent label primarily as a "perk" to keep a successful artist on the label's roster happy and a venue to bring fellow artists to the public's attention. Philips Classics Records was started in the 1980s as the new classics record label for Philips Records.  It was successful with artists including Alfred Brendel, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Mitsuko Uchida, Julian Lloyd Webber, Sir Colin Davis and André Rieu. Channel Classics Records is a record label from the Netherlands, specializing in classical music.  The managing director and producer is C. Jared Sacks, who grew up in Boston.  Sacks was schooled as a professional horn player at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.  With fifteen years of experience in making music, Sacks decided to turn his hobby of making musical recordings into his work in 1987.  The record label started in 1990 and was called after the street where he lived at the time, the Kanaalstraat in Amsterdam. POINT Music was a record label that was started in 1992 as a joint venture between Philips Classics and Michael Riesman and Philip Glass’s Euphorbia Productions.  In 1999, Decca Records became its distributor when it absorbed Philips in the aftermath of the merger that created Universal Music.  It originally specialized in cutting-edge contemporary Western classical music, but it expanded to include film scores, some world music, and rock–classical crossover projects.  It was shut down in 2002.
Answer: Alfred Brendel