tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post6378079341712410060..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Classical music debates - but will anything change?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-30209042397654627022011-08-16T08:11:49.870+01:002011-08-16T08:11:49.870+01:00Thanks Philip. Other "tentacles" are wor...Thanks Philip. Other "tentacles" are worth exploring, particularly those spread by the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme which is an opaque hybrid of concert/broadcast promotion, quasi management arrangement, BBC Radio 3 sub-brand and rcording deal. <br /><br />http://www.overgrownpath.com/2009/01/bbc-artists-are-blooming-in-picardy.html<br /><br />I quote from Wikipedia:<br /><br />"As part of the scheme Radio 3 has also collaborated with record companies, including nine co-production CDs with EMI Debut series, three of which (Belcea Quartet, Simon Trpceski and Jonathan Lemalu) have won Gramophone Awards for the best Debut CD of the year. There have also been co-productions with Harmonia Mundi, Decca, BIS, Sony Classical and Basho, while a number of New Generation Artists have also featured on BBC Music Magazine cover CDs." <br /><br />The BBC Trust ordered Radio 3 to drop commenrcial sponsorship of the scheme by financial giant Aviva in 2008 -<br /><br />http://www.overgrownpath.com/2008/07/bbc-classical-music-sponsorship.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-89945589117472623022011-08-15T23:06:00.405+01:002011-08-15T23:06:00.405+01:00Re the tentacles of the management agencies, there...Re the tentacles of the management agencies, there is at least one that has succeeded in wrapping itself around a whopping amount of recorded music. ICA (International Classical Artists Management) Classics is in charge of the BBC Legends series, as well as the archives of Cologne WDR and the Boston Symphony. The DVDs Art of Piano, Art of Violin and Art of Conducting issued from ICA. And then, of course, they issue concert performances by artists on their own roster. Knowing this helped explain to me certain oddities in the Art of...DVD issues, for a start.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.com