If you don’t already know, I would like to draw your attention to a REMARKABLE VALUE IN RECORDED CLASSICAL MUSIC: X5 Music Group, based out of Stockholm, specializes in licensing pre-existing music for compilation albums. Among their classical offerings are the 99 Essential Masterpieces of Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Grieg, Saint-Saens, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Liszt, Handel, Brahms, Haydn, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Renaissance Music. What makes these offerings so attractive is this: for $7.99 you receive 99 tracks of classical music performed, for the most part, BY FIRST CLASS PERFORMERS -- orchestras, choruses, soloists, and conductors. The 99 Essential Renaissance Masterpieces, for example, is taken entirely from the Harmonia Mundi catalogue. X5 appears to have a close relationship not only to HM, but to BIS, Phillips, London, the the old reliable, Vox, whose recordings with Abbey Simon, Alfred Brendel, and Walter Klein remain lively and satisfying. The 99 Most Essential Chopin Masterpieces was ranked No. 1 on Amazon’s MP3’s classical best-sellers chart. The compilation stayed among the charts top 100 for 20 months. And X5 was named one of the Red Herring Top 100 Most Innovative Companies in Europe in 2013.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:00:50 +0000
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