Medici Arts, a producer and distributor of music and arts related audiovisual programmes, acquired the Audio Visual Division of IMG Artists in January 2007 to form Medici Arts UK Limited. Prior to this date, the division had been formed in 1998 by Stephen Wright, then Managing Director of IMG Artists and John Pattrick, for over 30 years a senior executive at EMI, to originate, produce and distribute the BBC Legends label. In 2002, the division initiated the acclaimed Great Conductors of the 20th Century series in collaboration with EMI as well as the Boston Symphony Centenary (2001), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (2004) and La Scala commemorative archive (2006) sets. In addition to this, division created the Classic Archive DVD series with Ideale Audience in Paris which is currently marketed and distributed by EMI. In 2005, the division signed a major contract with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden to source, produce and market their archives worldwide under the Heritage name.

After the acquisition by Medici Arts in January 2007, Medici Arts UK Limited was re-organised into Medici Audio under John Pattrick (Director) with Jules Hammond (Product Manager) maintaining it's exclusive contracts with BBC Worldwide to compile, produce and internationally distrubute the award winning BBC Legends archive label (currently 250 titles sourced from the BBC's own archive from 1938 to the early 1990s) and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden's Heritage series (rare archive recordings from the early 1950s to the late 1990s) in collaboration with BBC Radio 3. In May 2007 Medici Audio launched it's own mid-price Medici label which includes archive material licensed from the European broadcasters such as WDR in Cologne and major record companies like EMI Classics etc. In addition, other special audio projects for Medici Arts will also be handled by Medici Audio.

Medici Arts Limited
Power Road Studios
114 Power Road
London W4 5PY