Which recording trademark do you like most?

[Joshua Yu]

Let's have a poll.

[Thorolf]

Difficult question, as there are good and lesser recordings on all labels.

I would like to mention Deutsche Garmmophon for thoroughness and completeness (they have even released Ravi Shankar!), and also the weird Naxos for availability.

For those of you that don’t know the Naxos policy, it’s about having one recoring only of every main work available. That means if e. g. Die Kunst der Fuge is recorded once by Naxos, that slot is filled forever. Due to their low price policy, this means that performers often find releasing on Naxos an oppertunity to make themselves known. Their payment policy is in a league of itself: They pay once and keep all royalities to themselves. They also make an agreement on the payment on beforehand, and if the performer isn’t satisfied, all expenses to better it is covered by the performer.

A norwegian music professor, recording Grieg piano works complete on Naxos, ended up paying some 50.000 € netto to get it as good as he wanted. Nevertheless, his achievement means we have a very good Grieg Complete for low price at the market. Love it or loath it, their policies ensure availability.



Regards

[reith]

The old-fashioned ones are nice, like the good old days when EMI was known as the Gramophone & Typewriter Company and had factories in faraway places like Riga where this one came from, the recording angel.