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Richard Pennycuick <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 7 Jun 1999 08:33:59 +1000
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Tony Duggan wrote:

>Mitch Friedfeld wrote:
>
>>Yes, I'm referring to EMI D121544, Sir John Barbirolli conducting the
>>LSO and Jacqueline du Pre in the concerto, and Dame Janet Baker in Sea
>>Pictures.  According to BBC Music Magazine, this 34-year-old recording
>>is No. 3 on the British best-seller list.  This must be a candidate
>>for EMI's GROC series.
>
>Whilst they can still sell it at full price?  No chance.

EMI are particularly greedy at flogging some of their classic old
recordings at full-price.  They also seem to wield the deletion axe more
ferociously than other companies.  Perhaps the two policies are not
unrelated.

"Richard Pennycuick" <[log in to unmask]>

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