tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post7518727078290483981..comments2007-11-12T16:30:50.771ZPliablenoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-52172880342560288092007-11-12T16:30:00.000Z2007-11-12T16:30:00.000ZSince when can, or should, we expect products that retail for vastly difference prices (a factor of 3 or 4!) to have the same level of quality?<BR/><BR/>Still, some Naxos recordings *are* excellent. That is what keeps them alive.<BR/><BR/>And for a lot of repertoire (consider Havergal Brian and Rawsthorne for two, without going beyond the bounds of Less Famous 20th-Century English Symphonists) there is basically nowhere else to go except Naxos. It is just a different business model, which has strengths and weaknesses compared to the old EMI model.<BR/><BR/>And no-one would claim that *every* old EMI recording is worth keeping.sphaerenklanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355010444546331416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-86475973330336478672007-10-24T21:07:00.000+01:002007-10-24T21:07:00.000+01:00Henry, you are right.<BR/><BR/>When I was at Aldeburgh doing my recent interview I asked Jonathan Reekie about their recorded archive. Aldeburgh have a professional sound engineer who records practically every performance there for their own archive.<BR/><BR/>It must be a treasure-trove. But the complexities of artist releases deter them from exploiting it commercially.<BR/><BR/>http://theovergrownpath.blogspot.com/2007/10/aldeburgh-has-always-been-about-new.htmlPliablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-23193398747212981992007-10-24T20:26:00.000+01:002007-10-24T20:26:00.000+01:00I wish the BBC, Radio France and the various German Radio entities would open their archives. I have some pirated stuff, like a <I>King Roger</I> that ORTF broadcast from the Chatelet with Charles Dutoit conducting, that's amazing and would be wonderful to have on CD/download. There's tons of obscure operas performed by the leading singers of the day that would be well-served by being released by NDR or whomever, if they could work through the maze of rights issues.Henry Hollandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-66510848953434088332007-10-23T14:34:00.000+01:002007-10-23T14:34:00.000+01:00Since DECCA, DG, Philips and EMI are no longer recording operas in the same league as their older recordings, what is the point here?Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17466720517173918576noreply@blogger.com