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...acclaimed CD release. This year's festival is expected to yield several intriguing collaboration albums in addition to the superorchestra. Engstroem's DG label, unsurprisingly, will produce many of them. DG has already released, to critical and commercial success, the first collaboration of Argerich, Maisky and Kremer in Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky trios. Coming soon is the Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor, featuring the same performers plus Bashmet. Engstroem expects the big-name collaborations to keep the CDs selling for years to come. At a time when the classical-music industry faces a glut of recordings in the core repertoire...
...enabled several major ensembles to launch their own labels. The biggest success story so far is the LSO Live budget label. "All their titles get into our Top 20 classical-sales chart," says Tony Shaw, U.K. classical manager for retail chain HMV. "Most get into the Top 10. Recently, Shostakovich's 11th Symphony got to No. 3, beating [popular tenors] Bocelli and Russell Watson." LSO Live is the brainchild of the orchestra's managing director, Clive Gillinson. Before the label launched in 2000, he had been in negotiations with the Musicians' Union for three years. "I knew the majors would...
...thought for intonation. And though we can now all sing along to at least a good portion of “Killer Queen,” a random survey of the staff would probably not yield the answer to the question, “Is this Holst or Shostakovich...
...just technicians but creators have that retrospective spirit. Fully half of our cinema entries are set in the past, from a decade ago back to World War II and into the mythical mists of the Qing dynasty. Some of our top CDs are replays of Shostakovich and Django Reinhardt. The hip place for Londoners to see modern art is in a revamped old power station. The best of theater includes a Trojan War epic and something called Hamlet. And on our fiction list, No. 4 is...Beowulf...
...EMERSON QUARTET Shostakovich String Quartets (DGG). Shostakovich turned Stalin's Great Terror into art in his 15 string quartets, a laceratingly vivid document interpreted here by America's greatest quartet...