Word: emi
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...natural to wonder how Ma stacks up next to his most celebrated predecessors, Pablo Casals and Mstislav Rostropovich (both of whose complete sets are currently available on EMI). Casals' classic performances, originally recorded between 1936 and 1939, have a sober grandeur that continues to seize and hold the ear six decades later; the Rostropovich set, recorded in 1991, is a larger-than-life exercise in musical oratory that bears the same relationship to "normal" cello playing that one of Chuck Close's jumbo portraits does to a black-and-white snapshot. Ma's strong, sensitive playing falls somewhere between these...
...when Brooks' record label, EMI, announced in May that it was closing its New York office, and, in the process, getting rid of some of the people he had depended on over the years to market his albums, Brooks decided to withhold his new record indefinitely. Jimmy Bowen, a former head of EMI-Capitol Nashville who worked with Brooks before leaving his post in 1995, predicts the singer will iron out his differences with the label in time to get the CD out by late fall. Says Bowen: "Nobody wins if [Brooks] keeps it in house, including...
...helped pioneer rock-funk fusion is attempting a comeback. Having extricated himself from his contract with Warner Bros. Records (a pact he so despised he started writing slave on his cheek), the Artist is releasing a triple CD titled Emancipation, the first in his new deal with EMI. While the album's overall import falls well short of that of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, it does have its moments...
...nicely on her own. Certainly some intricate maneuvering took place during negotiations for a new recording of Romeo et Juliette, masterminded for RCA by Placido Domingo, who plays the hero. Gheorghiu backed out of a pledge to the project--but guess who she will record the opera with for EMI...
...Late last year she and her lawyers approached four record companies, Sony, PolyGram, DreamWorks SKG and Disney, asking for a $100 million deal. Unsatisfied by their offers, she returned to Virgin, for which she has previously recorded, and got her $80 million. In part this may be because Thorn EMI, Virgin's parent company, is rumored to be looking to sell its music holdings and thus needs to hang on to assets like Jackson to ensure those holdings remain attractive...