The label began issuing new recordings under the Warner Classics banner in 1991.

This led to the formation of WEA, the forerunner of Warner Music Group.

The renamed Warner Music Group acquired Erato Records in 1992.

Warner Music Group acquired the classical video company NVC Arts in 1994.

[5] The label developed a larger profile in 2013 when it absorbed EMI Classics (including Pye Records' classical music catalogue) with that label's output absorbed into the Warner Classics label and the co-owned Virgin Classics absorbed into Erato Records.