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12/08/2004 Classical music for grown-ups: Britain v Germany
The Brit classical music charts always make depressing reading - "Snippets Of The Only 100 Opera Tunes You'll Ever Want To Sit Through"; "Thirteen Year Old Wunderkind - The Best Of"; "Crossover Hits By Nice People Off The Telly"… Compilations... celeb-led hits albums.. TV tie-ins... The Brit Classical Top 20 hardly ever has more than a handful of discs by internationally-recognised artists performing complete versions of classical pieces. For serious classical fans, the charts are not to be taken seriously. The Brit market is industry-, not customer-led. What a contrast with Germany, where the chart is devoted entirely to classical music for grown-ups. The current chart, for example, is headed by hot Russian soprano, Anna Netrebko (Opera Arias) and includes Cecilia Bartoli, Yo-Yo Ma, Andras Schiff and Musica Antiqua Koln: it's a chart of leading classical artists making recognisable classical recordings. No lightweight crossover. No crappy compilations. No TV personalities. Just great musicians doing what they do best. The German market for classical is far more sophisticated than its British equivalent - as you'd expect from a culture which gave the world many of music's most enduring talents. Gerry Smith
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