Future of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics

[doversoul1]

(Not suer if this is the right place. If not, please move it where appropriate, and if there is another thread on the subject, please merge it)

Future of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics brands uncertain as Warner acquires PLG

http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2013/07/future-of-emi-classics-and-virgin-classics-brands-still-uncertain-as-warner-completes-parlophone-buyout/

This is a bit sad:
…for now it is busy removing the EMI and Virgin logos from the sleeves of all classical albums distributed after 1 July.

…and this sounds rather bleak.
Warner has produced few classical releases since acquiring Germany’s Teldec and France’s Erato, then halting their production activities.

[richardfinegold]

(Not suer if this is the right place. If not, please move it where appropriate, and if there is another thread on the subject, please merge it)

Future of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics brands uncertain as Warner acquires PLG

http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2013/07/future-of-emi-classics-and-virgin-classics-brands-still-uncertain-as-warner-completes-parlophone-buyout/

This is a bit sad:
…for now it is busy removing the EMI and Virgin logos from the sleeves of all classical albums distributed after 1 July.

…and this sounds rather bleak.
Warner has produced few classical releases since acquiring Germany’s Teldec and France’s Erato, then halting their production activities.

I'm busy buying as many of these big box reissues as I an afford and can find place to store. Eventually we may all be forced to buy downloads issued by independent artists on their own websites, and access to back catalogs of the major labels will be spotty.

[pastoralguy]

I'm busy buying as many of these big box reissues as I an afford and can find place to store. Eventually we may all be forced to buy downloads issued by independent artists on their own websites, and access to back catalogs of the major labels will be spotty.

I wonder if this is the last 'hurrah' for the cd. I'm sure record companies would rather provide us with downloads than have the faff of of making CDs with artwork and then having someone put it all together. Then transport it to a shop
Hundreds or even thousands of miles away where the proprietor will take a cut.

It'll be a sad day when it stops but that's progress...

[PJPJ]

One of the first of the EMIs with the Warner logo.

[pastoralguy]

One of the first of the EMIs with the Warner logo.

Ah! That explains a lot. I wondered why Sir Simon and his band had changed label!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If record companies think they can coerce people into buying downloads, they must be rather dim.

[MrGongGong]

If record companies think they can coerce people into buying downloads, they must be rather dim.

But people DO buy them , don't they ?
(I'm not that keen on downloads but many people do buy them....... iTunes is rather successful isn't it !)

[pastoralguy]

If record companies think they can coerce people into buying downloads, they must be rather dim.

The problem is Alpine, is that it's a similar situation to 30 years ago when record companies stopped producing Lps and cassette tapes in order to force the consumer into buying CDs. I've been reading old Gramophones courtesy of their online facilities and the letters pages are full of complaints of readers who feel they have been coerced into having to buy new technology.

[Barbirollians]

I felt exactly that way PG though I think it was around 1990 that the record companies firstly stopped producing vinyl for new releases and then cassettes were produced only for the most popular releases and finally it was CD only.

The difference could be that the resistance to downloads only will be much stronger .

[KipperKid]

I felt exactly that way PG though I think it was around 1990 that the record companies firstly stopped producing vinyl for new releases and then cassettes were produced only for the most popular releases and finally it was CD only.

The difference could be that the resistance to downloads only will be much stronger .

Resistance is futile.

It's over mate

[cloughie]

If record companies think they can coerce people into buying downloads, they must be rather dim.

Alps, they'll do it by price - I'm a download sceptic but have been seduced recently by some sub £8 bulk downloads of otherwise unavailable old recordings. OK I immediately burned them to CD. But I fear it is going to become the norm. Meanwhile I'm enjoying the Klemperer boxes and the Icons.

[Tevot]

Hello there,

I suppose the writing has been on the wall for a good number of years. That said it didn't deter me yesterday from buying a couple of CDs at Forsyths in Manchester. (Rattle's Bruckner 9 and Edward Gardner's Lutoslawski 2)

Resistance is futile? Tell that to Jean Luc Picard I will not be assimilated

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[KipperKid]

Hello there,

I suppose the writing has been on the wall for a good number of years. That said it didn't deter me yesterday from buying a couple of CDs at Forsyths in Manchester. (Rattle's Bruckner 9 and Edward Gardner's Lutoslawski 2)

Resistance is futile? Tell that to Jean Luc Picard I will not be assimilated

Best Wishes,

Tevot

If only you were right Tevot

[Tevot]

Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light

[KipperKid]

Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light

When the Romans came, some of us stood and fought. Others escaped to the Welsh hills and wrote poetry.