'Downsizing' of BMG Classics
According to an article by Philip Kennicott in the Washington Post, 19 April 2000, record company BMG Classics is being reorganised by its parent company Bertelsmann. BMG Classics will cease to exist as an independent label within BMG, and its few remaining artists and staff will become part of the popular music label RCA. The exact fate of the label's artists (which include James Galway, Danielle Gatti, Evelyn Glennie, Steven Isserlis, the King's Singers, the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas) is unknown, but the Washington Post has learnt that recording projects within BMG have already been cancelled, including one involving Glennie. This news is another indication of the increasing lack of commitment to classical music by the larger companies with Sony Classical, for example, having already moved in the direction of non-classical and crossover albums, and a similar trend in EMI. The good news is the ever-increasing number of smaller labels appearing on the classical scene.
Posted: 21 April 2000
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