IDAGIO
IDAGIO is a paid streaming service specializing in classical music. The company is based in Berlin, Germany. History. IDAGIO was founded in 2015 by Till Janczukowicz, a former artist manager, and Christoph Lange, who previously founded the German streaming company Simfy. Janczukowicz has said that his aim is "to offer the ultimate streaming service for classical music worldwide." IDAGIO officially started its streaming app for iOS at the Salzburg Festival in 2015. IDAGIO added the Sony Classical catalogue in December 2017 and the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue (comprising also the Decca, Philips and ECM labels) in January 2018. In April  2018 it announced a partnership with Warner Classics, bringing the entire Warner Classics and Erato catalogues to the platform. In September 2018, following a €10 million funding round, the service launched in North America. Labels from the Outhere Music Group (including Alpha, Phi, Aeon and Ricercar) were added to the service in April 2019. In November 2019, IDAGIO was named one of Time Magazine's 2019 Best Inventions. Description. The IDAGIO app has been downloaded over 1 million times and offers "a smart search function, premium sound and a vast catalog of music". One of its distinguishing features, the  mood wheel, according to "Gramophone" magazine, "puts one in mind of the wheel on the old-school iPod ." All recordings are available to stream – and download to the app – in full CD quality. Exclusive content. Exclusive releases available for audio streaming exclusively on IDAGIO include: Christian Thielemann conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, a solo recital by pianist Mikhail Pletnev from the Verbier Festival, and Mahler from the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi under its music director, Claus Peter Flor. In January 2020 IDAGIO reached an exclusive streaming agreement with renowned violinist Maxim Vengerov.