DSCH 10 Shostakovich CD Reviews

Industry News

We are sad to report that Revelation Records have suspended trading pending the outcome of their legal action against the licensors of their recordings, Keynote Classics, as well as USSU Arts Group Inc., and Fenix Entertainment Inc. Revelation charge that the defendants led them to believe that their catalogue contained approximately 400,000 hours of sound recordings in the Russian State Archive, but that later they discovered that Keynote Classics had rights to only about 7,000 hours of tapes that they had removed to Los Angeles, all further access to the Archive having been closed to them since prior to their deal with Revelation. Revelation also charge that the defendants did not hold exclusive rights to even the recordings to which they did have access, as they had represented. Revelation are thus suing to recover monies they've paid to the defendants.

While this action proceeds, Revelation are not releasing new discs or re-pressing previous releases (distributors are permitted to sell remaining stock). DSCH has agreed not to run in this edition reviews of the last three volumes in Revelation's Shostakovich Plays Shostakovich series, as well as Ian MacDonald's review of Tretyakov in Shostakovich's Violin Concertos and C. H. Loh's review of Rostropovich in the Fourteenth Symphony. We look forward to presenting these reviews when the situation permits.

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