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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Record Companies and their Future Releases
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on: May 01, 2016, 09:53:42 am
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I do understand the issue of your wish that record companies should be more 'open'. (Excuse me my rather poor English). Some are, some are not. If one should know Tishchenko's 8th symphony would be out in – say – november 2016, one could anticipate that release. I agree (very interesting composer by the way). But that could lead to many disappointments too. Cpo records is very open. They print a nice catalogue, there're times you even could find out what they'd release over two years. So I'm still waiting for their promised release of Pfitzner's opera Die Liebe von Rosengarten, promised for release in 2010! Very open and very disappointing. Chandos proudly announced a Weinberg symphonies cycle. Well everyone knows how many there are. Very open but it seemed to be halted, Naxos took over? And we know how far they have come. And so on and on. And suddenly – surprise! – Toccata released his last two symphonies. So I've given up anticipating and being hungry completely. Just buying discs for the sheer pleasure of listening to – many times – suprisingly fine unknown repertoire. The situation nowadays is, for us eager to get to know many hidden gems, far better than say 20 or 25 years ago, times when labels like DGG and Decca still overflowed the market with Pavarotti and Karajan in Puccini and Beethoven. (They still do, recycling and recycling over and over again, yek.) There's so much to enjoy thanks to the 'minors', which are majors for me! I take every (surprise) release for granted and am happy with it. I really didn't know Dutton would ever make a recording of Bortkiewicz's fantastic violin concerto, and now it's here! And I wish they'll do his cello concerto as well...
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