DG signs Karl Jenkins

[TheGSMoeller]

Yeah, this just happened. 

[Todd]

Well, DG has released recordings by Sting and Tori Amos in recent years, too.  Whatareyagonnado?

(And it looks like Yundi Li - I mean just plain Yundi - is now back in the DG fold.) 

[Mirror Image]

DG continue to be irrelevant as a viable classical music label and signing Karl Jenkins is only further proof of this notion.

[Cato]

Diamond Music!

DGG wants the best cut of Diamond Music!

[The new erato]

I really cannot remember the last time I bought a reasonably new (as opposed to reissued) DG recording. If one counts Archis as DG II'm pretyy sure it must have happened sometime within the last 12 years, but otherwise I really cannot remember...

And I buy my share of new, full price issues and not only reissued boxes. But those purchases seem to come from the likes of Glossa, Chandos, Hyperion, Harmonia Mundi, BIS, Ondine, DaCapo, Timpani, Cedille, cpo, Alba, Supraphon (just to mention a few from the top of my head that I actually remember here and now - I've even bought a couple of new Decca releases). How sad, those yellow labels were a major part of my upbringing into classical music listening and collecting.

[kishnevi]

I really cannot remember the last time I bought a reasonably new (as opposed to reissued) DG recording. If one counts Archis as DG II'm pretyy sure it must have happened sometime within the last 12 years, but otherwise I really cannot remember...

And I buy my share of new, full price issues and not only reissued boxes. But those purchases seem to come from the likes of Glossa, Chandos, Hyperion, Harmonia Mundi, BIS, Ondine, DaCapo, Timpani, Cedille, cpo, Alba, Supraphon (just to mention a few from the top of my head that I actually remember here and now - I've even bought a couple of new Decca releases). How sad, those yellow labels were a major part of my upbringing into classical music listening and collecting.

Off the top of my head--
actively recording with DG
  Boulez
  Abbado
  Dudamel (okay, I can understand not buying him)
  Mutter
  Carmagnola
  Magdalena K.--the Czech singer whose last name I can't remember, and if  I did remember wouldn't be able to spell correctly...

You've not bought anything they've released in the last few years?

But you are correct--the new releases I buy are almost always from Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, etc.   DG and EMI are both prime examples of the endless re release labels

[Brian]

Magdalena Kozena, Jeffrey. Not too hard!

I really cannot remember the last time I bought a reasonably new (as opposed to reissued) DG recording.

I've bought these DG releases from the last ten years -
Beethoven symphonies, Abbado Rome (red box)
Dudamel's Latin "Fiesta"
Pollini plays Chopin: Sonata 2, Ballade 2, Impromptu 2, mazurkas and waltzes

I've also gotten a review copy (Barenboim plays Chopin). I may eventually succumb to some of their recent Szymanowski and Salonen adventures, and if Todd likes Maria Joao Pires's new Schubert CD that might be a possibility. Has anybody heard Avi Avital's Bach concertos? He's a terrific mandolin player but I don't know how necessary the album is.

But yeah, like EMI, a reissue label. But in terms of reissue price range, they're more like a classy escort and EMI is more like a hooker who doesn't know if she can pay for her next hit of coke.

[kishnevi]

Magdalena Kozena, Jeffrey. Not too hard!

It is if you can't remember the name!

Two other singers still active on DG are Placido Domingo--and I'm not counting any of his crossover albums-- and Simon Kermes--and there's Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra on Arkiv.

[The new erato]

Off the top of my head--
actively recording with DG
  Boulez
  Abbado
  Dudamel (okay, I can understand not buying him)
  Mutter
  Carmagnola
  Magdalena K.--the Czech singer whose last name I can't remember, and if  I did remember wouldn't be able to spell correctly...

You've not bought anything they've released in the last few years?

But you are correct--the new releases I buy are almost always from Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, etc.   DG and EMI are both prime examples of the endless re release labels

I can understand you asking, I certainly can not remember my purchases the last 12 years. My bad; I meant to write 1-2 years. I certainly have some Boulez/Mahler and some Kozena (older than 2 years), my last purchase I think was some aria record by Pettibon which at least was more than 12 months ago.

[TheGSMoeller]

Congratulations, Karl!

Exactly.    They'll both make money for each other.

[Mirror Image]

Congratulations, Karl!

[TheGSMoeller]

Now they can release..

Karl Jenkins: Diamond Music - "The Diamond Edition"

[Cato]

They should have signed Mr. Karl Henning!

And everybody knows it!   0:)

[Daverz]

They did let Zimerman do a whole (and most excellent) disc of Bacewicz a couple years ago.

[The new erato]

They did let Zimerman do a whole (and most excellent) disc of Bacewicz a couple years ago.

Yes, aside from the aforementioned Petibon disc, this was the last new release I bought from DG around 2 years ago. The release of the disc was severely delayed, rumor has it that DG didn't really want to do it, but was finally pressured into releasing it. If true, that is infionitely sad and depressing when you see the shitloads of commercially oriented, superfluous discs they release these days.