Kevin Sutton remarked (abridged):

>The main difference that I detect between Naxos and Arte Nova is in the
>repertoire.  Naxos has rather systematically set out to record damn near
>everything imaginable whereas I find Arte Nova to be a hodge podge of
>everything from Beethoven to Schnabel to collections of Marian choral
>works.  They don't seem to have a consistent and well thought out plan
>for what will be in their catalogue.

I'm not sure about Arte Nova's intentions--I suppose there has been
no strong policy statement from them but they do have a lot of integral
standard repertoire which doesn't exactly suggest hodge-podge to me: David
Zinman's idiosyncratic Beethoven symphonies, the Mahler symphonies, Brahms
chamber music, Beethoven chamber music and piano sonatas, major Bach
instrumental music and so forth.

I'd want to see a complete catalog (I think that there is one including
plans for future releases through 1999 at least which I failed to pick up
at a local record shop) before making any evaluations on their planning or
lack of it!

By the way, I saw (perhaps Gramophone?) announcement of a forthcoming
release of Strauss: Guntram on Arte Nova.  Anybody out there actually
seen the discs? There is a wonderful sleeper VERY CHEAP version on Arts
of Strauss: Feuersnot which I just found.  Perhaps I am mistaking ARTS
and ARTE NOVA.  And moreover, anybody got a website for ARTS?

Best wishes-

Joel Lazar
Conductor, Bethesda MD
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