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Yesterday, Valentina Lisitsa notified her fans that a CD (yes, an
actual CD) of a taping of her Royal Albert Hall recital will be out
on July 24 through her new label of Decca Records. The album is
currently available for presale at Amazon.
According to Valentina, the album will contain all her Royal Albert
program with the exception of the Liszt Totentanz. Evidently the
omission is due to legalities involving an album Naxos put out of
her a couple years back which included that work. "Totentanz will
be on DVD that comes out later" Valentina wrote on Facebook. "First
I have to file a lawsuit against Naxos. They still behave like they
own it. Bastards."
Considering that Naxos has not made the Lisitsa album available
virtually since it was issued, and as such are not currently making
money on it anyway, I don't see what Naxos' problem is with this. If
they didn't truly back the album that Valentina made with them in
the first place, why should they be such svengalis on this issue now?
For Naxos not to allow the complete recital to be issued is to me a
crime against humanity — well, at least a crime against music.
Bastards. You know the last time I checked it was Liszt who composed
the Totentanz, not anybody at Naxos.
In any case it probably goes without saying that I preordered the
album immediately. I was not going to snooze and lose on this one.
When I will get my copy depends on whether Decca gets them all out,
but if the July 24 date is fulfilled then it should in my box on or
close to that date — Amazon has a practice of mailing presale albums
out early so they get to the customer by the release date.
Oh how long have I been waiting for this. And perhaps the squabbles
over the Totentanz will be passed by the time Decca gets around to
issuing Valentina's Liszt project album.
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
Exactly!:ninja: Valentine is very cool! :up:
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They've probably expected from her to offer some money to get that work back :irked: Company like them are the reason Internet piracy still exists. Among few other things :whistle:Well, nice to hear that you will get that CD on time. Did you ask Valentina to sign it for you? :whistle:
Yay! Glad you got to order the album, Edward!:up::heart:
@ Darko.If I ever get the chance to have her sign it I probably would!Yeah that could be. One way or another it all comes down to money in the recording industry.Franz Liszt wrote the work. I'm sure Naxos isn't paying him any royalties. Just saying…
@ Star.Thanks, Star! Now all I have to do is make sure that I leave enough money in my bank account. :p:heart:
Decca Record Labels? WOW! this is sort of giving my age away, but I didn't even think that Decca was still in existence! Thanks for the update ED, And now even producing CD's……. time marches on for sure. I guess head has been in the clouds. :p
Carlo! Good to hear from you!Decca seems to be very aggressive recently in signing good new artists. Julia Fischer is with Decca; and even though I don't like him much, Joshua Bell.
oh………nice 😎