Post by Jonty November 4, 2007 (21 of 154)
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Sad news indeed. She won't be as well recorded ever again.
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Very sad for us and, I believe, ultimately for Miss Fischer. Not only have Pentatone lost an artist that must have supported some less popular projects but also Fischer will now have to vastly rein in her artistic ambitions wrt recordings. Hopefully she will not be flavour of the month for too much longer (not from a quality perspective but that a younger, prettier violinist or two will come along and replace her at Decca) and that Pentatone are mature enough to let her return to her natural home. The only way I can see anything positive coming from this defection is that Fischer has stipulated surround releases - I remember her being pretty enthusiastic about the idea only a year or so ago on BBCR3 but money clearly drowns out her sweet sound...
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Post by Arthur November 4, 2007 (23 of 154)
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Polly Nomial said:
The only way I can see anything positive coming from this defection is that Fischer has stipulated surround releases - I remember her being pretty enthusiastic about the idea only a year or so ago on BBCR3 but money clearly drowns out her sweet sound...
My thoughts exactly!
I believe I had heard that Anne-Sophie Mutter was the biggest selling classical artist in Germany. That was the justification reps gave to me for why she seemed to have carte blanche to record things that didn't sell elsewhere. I can almost guarantee that Decca was promising to turn Julia into a phenomenon of this caliber. Whether they can do so without destroying her artistically is open to debate.
I won't be following her recording career any longer unless she is released on SACD. I can count on one hand the number of red book titles I've bought in the last year, and I don't anticipate that changing any time soon.
(Before someone complains about how shallow I'm being, let me say, that when a review or a sampling with a friend truly excites me about a performance (which happens once every two or three months), I'll buy it whatever the format. But when it comes to taking a chance on something, I have limited resources and an SACD wish list of almost 200 titles, so I fully believe I can keep finding new things to explore and enjoy without supporting majors who have abandoned us! Another way of looking at this: when I own a dozen Beethoven Violin Concerto recordings, do I really need another? I've come to the point that I generally answer 'no"; but if it's a Super Audio disc, then I'm curious, because my ideal recording (if there is such a thing) would include totally realistic sound--something I don't get from any redbook disc. Do most SACDs measure up as performances? Probably not, but then neither do most performances on redbook.)
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Post by hotmifi November 4, 2007 (24 of 154)
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Livy said:
As for what she will record - I suspect we'll see a Sibelius Concerto at some point, perhaps some Brahms' chamber works; has she recorded the Beethoven concerto yet?
You'll find her Sibelius concerto as live recording (Maazel conducting) here:
http://sz-shop.sueddeutsche.de/mediathek/shop/catalog/editionen/3145.jsp?quid=511150284S901596T
or here:
http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/lang/en/currency/EUR/hnum/7655076
It's part of the "Violinists of the Century" compilation with 19 more CDs carrying historic and present recordings with artists like David Oistrach, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Bronislaw Huberman, Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Nathan Milstein, Gidon Kremer, Hilary Hahn, Jascha Heifetz, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Andrew Manze, Vadim Repin, Fritz Kreisler, Ida Haendel and Itzhak Perlman.
This box does not come in SA-CD format, for obvious reasons.
Regards,
hotmifi
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Post by SnaggS November 5, 2007 (25 of 154)
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Time for a Pentatone Julia Fischer box set?
Daniel.
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Post by aoqd22 November 5, 2007 (26 of 154)
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Suppose its just possible Decca have made the nice people at PentaTone an offer they cannot refuse and its PentaTone itself that is becoming part of the Universal Group ... ?
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Post by Claude November 5, 2007 (27 of 154)
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Livy said:
Julia Fischer will make a lot of money out of it, of course.
Do classical artists actually make a lot of money with recordings?
Even pop stars now complain that they don't earn much from CD sales and make most of their income with concerts, their albums having become a promotion instrument for the tours (through radio play and press reviews).
If that is indeed so, it must be even more true with classical performers.
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Post by Claude November 5, 2007 (28 of 154)
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Hey, what if Julia has in her new contract that Decca must record with Polyhymnia and release the albums on SACD ... :-)
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Post by Orpheus November 5, 2007 (29 of 154)
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Claude said:
Hey, what if Julia has in her new contract that Decca must record with Polyhymnia and release the albums on SACD ... :-)
This would be a great improvement for Decca's efforts so far at multichannel SACD. Practically all of Decca's efforts at multichannel SACD so far come from PCM sources and at least some lack a centre channel (despite the dots showing this on the SACD). I don't see this happening soon with Decca, but we can only live in hope that they will one day.
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Post by Allen November 5, 2007 (30 of 154)
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seth said:
Now if it was Sony who picked her up, then I'd say she'd be slated to crossover hell.
hmmm, I seem to recall a familiar name here, Joshua Bells? Actually, that is not all that bad with Sony/Bells marriage.
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