astrotoy Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 We are clearly seeing a big movement to major orchestras having their own labels. In addition to the BPO, San Francisco, Boston, London Symphony, Chicago, and several others have moved there. It is all economics, with the big labels pulling out of contracts with major orchestras. IIRC the BPO members under their Karajan DGG contract were earning more than half their income from recording fees and royalties. Karajan was the best selling conductor of all time. When the plug was pulled on these contracts, the move was to have orchestras record their concert performances (or sometimes rehearsals). There were no session fees (which are quite significant particularly in the US) since there were no independent recording sessions, and the orchestra members only received payments based on the sales of the recordings. Thus a recording of a live concert became a much lower cost and lower risk undertaking. Talking to the Decca engineers over the past year, their concern was that recording live concerts did not give the engineers the same control or sonic quality (they can't do a Decca Tree, for example) as in a studio, and if there is a flub or noisy audience, it will be there forever. One of the former Decca producers during their golden age, James Mallinson, produces the LSO Live series. The Boston Symphony has been doing downloads for several years in different formats. I have several of their multichannel downloads. Larry Analog-VPIClas3,3DArm,LyraSkala+MiyajimaZeromono,Herron VTPH2APhono,2AmpexATR-102+MerrillTridentMaster TapePreamp Dig Rip-Pyramix,IzotopeRX3Adv,MykerinosCard,PacificMicrosonicsModel2; Dig Play-Lampi Horizon, mch NADAC, Roon-HQPlayer,Oppo105 Electronics-DoshiPre,CJ MET1mchPre,Cary2A3monoamps; Speakers-AvantgardeDuosLR,3SolosC,LR,RR Other-2x512EngineerMarutaniSymmetrical Power+Cables Music-1.8KR2Rtapes,1.5KCD's,500SACDs,50+TBripped files Link to comment
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