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...singer Andrea Bocelli, Levine with his many Metropolitan Opera productions and the vivacious soprano Cecilia Bartoli are just a few of the leading DVD sellers. Cases in point: Levine's two-disc version of Tristan and Isoldewith the Met, featuring tenor Ben Heppner and soprano Jane Eaglen, on Deutsche Grammophon ($39.98), and Cecilia Bartoli Sings Mozart and Haydn,�a two-disc set with the Concentus Musicus Wien conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, on BBC/Opus Arte...
...magnetism among the new generation of players. The scene was set for Lang Lang and Yundi Li, two young Chinese musicians who are today the emerging stars of the rarefied world of concert-hall pianism. Both men were born in 1982, and have exclusive recording contracts with the Deutsche Grammophon label?long a mark of eminence in the field...
...dreams." In China he's played for former President Jiang Ze-Min, been the subject of a best-selling biography, and is recognized on the streets. Now that success is spreading to the West. He's onto his second record contract, having just been snapped up by Deutsche Grammophon, which recently released his recordings of Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn concertos. In July he was given the honor of opening the BBC Proms in London with a nationally televised concert. A few days later, he played on Good Morning America, and as a result, his Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn album made...
...will gather in the Swiss mountain village of Verbier for a series of concerts that are guaranteed to have aficionados seeing stars. "It's amazing how many superstars love to come here, and they create a very special and warm atmosphere together," says Martin Engstroem, who runs the Deutsche Grammophon (DG) record company. Engstroem started the Verbier festival in 1993 to entice the world's greatest musicians into a cozy retreat where they could try out new repertoire and experiment with collaborations. It quickly became one of the most prestigious events in the classical-music calendar, an unparalleled opportunity...
...Philips in the classical market, is represented on 55 of the 200 discs, while tracks from Philips feature on only 38. "The collection was so comprehensive and definitive that no label wanted its artists to be left out," says Chris Roberts, president of Polygram Classics, which owns Deutsche Grammophon...