Music lovers, record labels and reviewers' attitude to 'budget' labels.

[cloughie]

In more recent years Arte Nova have released many excellent bargain CDs which were well reviewed, I'm thinking pianist Alfredo Perl's Beethoven recordings fort example, and others by Adrian Leaper and Paul Daniel.

I certainly treasure Hiroshi Wakasugi's Arte Nova CD with the Saarbrucken RSO (often conducted by Skrowaczewski on the same label) of Bruckner's Second Symphony, given a pretty glowing review by RO in Gramophone - I prefer it to the recordings by Giulini, Karajan, Wand, Jochum (x2), Solti and Barenboim (x2) anyway...

There were many excellent ZTO/Zinman recordings on Arte Nova and Peter Maag’s recordings on Arts!

[Barbirollians]

The RPO put out some good records on Tring - Raymond Leppard’s lovely Beethoven 9 and Frank Shipway’s outstanding Mahler 5 come to mind.

[cloughie]

The RPO put out some good records on Tring - Raymond Leppard’s lovely Beethoven 9 and Frank Shipway’s outstanding Mahler 5 come to mind.

That series was really good, well-recorded and good value and the presentation was good. Vernon Handley Rachmaninov Sym2 - vg. I snapped many up when they first appeared. I seem to remember there was some controversy over some of the major companies frowning at their top conductors making recordings for this budget label.

[LMcD]

I bought a Pilz CD in a charity shop this morning containing 4 works by Mozart, 2 of which were new to me - sets of variations K353 and 613.