Honesty in advertising from Arkivmusic

[Shrunk]

This blurb caught my eye in the listing for Harnoncourt's Brahms cycle on Arkvimusic:

Fanfare (5-6/98, pp.99-100) - "It grieves me that I can find little to enthuse about in these Brahms performances by a conductor of stature who has done fine things in diverse areas of the repertoire...There is a triviality about the whole enterprise that I find fatally arid..."

I'm not sure if someone on staff there is highly principled or just very careless.

[listener]

.reminds me of the DVD shop whose listings included a famous director who work was "meretricious".

[DavidRoss]

This blurb caught my eye in the listing for Harnoncourt's Brahms cycle on Arkvimusic:

I'm not sure if someone on staff there is highly principled or just very careless.

Principled, I suspect.  The listing includes other review excerpts and notes that it was a Gramophone "recording of the month" and was nominated for a Grammy award.

[Gurn Blanston]

I would agree with Sherman and say 'principled' also, since I have seen other listings there which also feature a negative review (and unlike Amazon's, these aren't customer reviews,they are professionals).  That's good though, I read enough positive stuff all day long...



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Now playing:
Philharmonia Orchestra / Mackerras - Dvorak Op 088 Symphony #8 in G 2nd mvmt - Adagio

[Brian]

I'm pretty sure that back in 2009 I panned a Naxos CD and they (Naxos) posted the whole review on their site anyways. It's a little more typical to tease out the one good-sounding excerpt ("...but the sound was decent." - So-and-so  ).