David Harbin wrote:

>A terrible waste.  The American violinist Hillary Hahn is starting her
>DG recording contract with Bach.  Yet there are already so many recordings
>of this repetoire.  Surely it would be better for her to record the
>horribly underrecorded Piston for W Schumann with, say, the Cleveland
>or Philhadelphia orchestras?  It seems an ideal opportunity for the
>violinist to make a real landmark recording and a long term best-seller.
>Instead she and other violinists for the majors are sticking by overcooked
>warhorses and watching their CD sales plummet.

Perhaps that is part of the problem, I rather doubt Hahn doing Piston or
Schuman would sell. Perhaps, as a musician, she doesn't relate to American
Music. As for DG...I certainly have been exposed to that sort of thinking.
Hillary Hahn is a "product," not a musician.

Karl