EMI is the label that introduced us to Schnabel, Richter, Argerich, Barenboim and Pollini. Myleene Klass is a pop singer who was chosen for stardom on a television talent contest and has followed up with appearances on reality shows. She has just signed to EMI Classics.
It would be tempting to imagine that an EMI producer, straying beneath her window in South London as she practised Chopin, decided that he was hearing the next Argerich; or that Simon Rattle conducting her in a concerto, demanded that his label sign this phenomenal performer.
The reality, which Myleene is so expert at simulating, is sadly otherwise. We don’t need to be told why ‘classical’ record labels sign ‘talent’ like Myleene. We know all too well.
Don’t ask who killed classical recording. The evidence is inscribed in its own press releases (after the jump).

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EMI is the label that introduced us to Schnabel, Richter, Argerich, Barenboim and Pollini. Myleene Klass is a pop singer who was chosen for stardom on a television talent contest and has followed up with appearances on reality shows. She has just signed to EMI Classics.
It would be tempting to imagine that an EMI producer, straying beneath her window in South London as she practised Chopin, decided that he was hearing the next Argerich; or that Simon Rattle conducting her in a concerto, demanded that his label sign this phenomenal performer.
The reality, which Myleene is so expert at simulating, is sadly otherwise. We don’t need to be told why ‘classical’ record labels sign ‘talent’ like Myleene. We know all too well.
Don’t ask who killed classical recording. The evidence is inscribed in its own press releases (after the jump).

(more…)