Re: Copyright infringement


Dear Maready,

thanks for your long and thoughtful post.
You make a lot of sense, but you miss out on a few important points.

To start with:  you are comparing the purchase of a used copy of a BIS
CD with the downloading of the same, illegally.  The obvious point is
of course that we get an income from neither, but we did get one from
the copy you bought, and when you have bought it, noone else can - the
"original" it is gone.  With the illegal downloading, the "ortiginal"
still exists and can be downloaded by zillions of people.

Then:  I am the first to deplore the demise of the informed shop.  I
am sure that downloading has its part of the blame for that, too.  But
you can easily get BIS through Amazon anywhere, used or new, plus a
number of other sites, like Arkiv, which is really extremely good and
user-friendly.  Plus the usual download-sites, like eMusic, iTunes,
Rhapsody etc etc.  So to maintain that the supply is bad is
overstating the case indeed.

Next:  yes, I have already admitted several times that the labels'
case is worse, if the product has been deleted.  But that doesn't
apply to BIS, since we have every tone we ever recorded ion stock on
the shelves for immediate delivery.

Next:  No, it isn't the same performance, but i maintain that if one
has illegally downloaded a "superb" account of the Sibelius Concerto
with Kavakos, conducted by Osmo Vänskä, there is at least a very good
risk that that person will not fork out whatever it costs to buy a
commercial recording of the same piece with the same 2 main artists.

And finally, I cannot help myself:  if there were a CD of Xenakis's
Violin Concerto, played by Gidon Kremer, I would myself run out and
buy it at 20.99 or any price.  There isn't.  This recording doesn't
exist, but we do have an excellent recording, played by Irvine
Arditti, conducted by Jonathan Nott...

Best - Robert

Yes, that's the one --- Irvine Arditti and Jonathan Nott --- and I
recommend it highly to anyone that has an interest in Xenakis or even
to those who don't. You might be surprised what an approachable
composer Xenakis could be. If this sounds interesting, go to Amazon,
ArchivMusic, MDT, or Emusic and buy a new or used CD copy, or an
mp3-
quality download. If you see it in your local used book and/or
record
shop, snap it up. If a friend offers to make you a cassette or a CD-
R, why not take a chance? And if it pops up on an internet blog, or
you search Google and see a Rapidshare or Mediafire listing for it,
you can download it for free, and either keep it or put it in the
trash. If you DO download it for free from an internet "peer",
perhaps you will want to buy this CD, one that you weren't sure was
"for you" (you may not have known it even existed!) And if you don't
want to buy the same piece again, by the same performers, why not
check out the CDs of Xenakis' other music on Timpani, Col Legno,
Mode,
Hyperion and many other fine small companies? Or listen to some of
the wonderful broadcast recordings of the composer's music, ranging
from historic 1950s world premieres to those of more recent vintage?
All of these are potentially available to anyone with access to a
computer and a search engine.
Yes, it would be nice to hear Gidon Kremer play the piece, although
Irvine Arditti is a swell violinist (and quartet leader) with
personal
connections to the late Mr. Xenakis. Although Kremer doesn't play as
much "contemporary" music as he used to (and didn't record this piece
for BIS back in 1996), there IS a fine DGG recording of the piece
Luigi Nono wrote for (and in collaboration) with him. It is in print
and available from all the places listed above, as well as the
Deutsche Grammophon Web Shop. "Illegal" downloads of it seem to pop
up for it as well, whenever I do a Google search for either Luigi
Nono
or Gidon Kremer.

.

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