Alan is correct about E-One being the same as the former Koch.  E-One was
also a distributor for CD's but I believe has gone out of that business
about a year ago.

The guy who was reissuing the Everest catalog, whose name I can't think of
right now,  was on the ARSC List and I corresponded with him some several
years ago.  His outfit was in Canada as I recall, and it was owned by
Sony.  We can all guess what happened to that enterprise.  He seems to have
fallen silent.

Best,
John Haley







On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Alan Lesitsky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> To add to Dennis' astute comments:
>
> 1. After the death of Seymour Solomon, the Vanguard tapes were sold to
> Artemis Classics, which continued to issue CDs (and even a few SACDs) for a
> few years until they went out of business.
>
> 2. The catalog floundered for a few years; I'm not sure who owned them, but
> they they went to E-one entertainment (I believe a rebranding of Koch
> International). They have been issued as on-demand CDRs from both Arkiv
> Music and Amazon , as well as on amazon as "Big-Box" downloads, where you
> could get several hours of music for 99 cents.
>
> 3. While the Big Box downloads remain, it appears that E-one has dropped
> any
> interest and promotion in their classical catalog, so it is again in limbo.
>
> As for Everest, when Vanguard issued them, it was under some sort of
> license
> (Bernard Solomon had no connection to Seymour and Maynard Solomon). Some
> owns the Everest tapes and has worked on issuing them as hi-res downloads,
> but I am not sure who it is.
>
> Anyone who can provide more detail (or corrections) is more than welcome.
>
>
> > From: Dennis Rooney <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:14:55 -0400
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] FW: [ARSCLIST] classical music LPs to CDs
> >
> > Reading through the thread, I should point out that Dr. Michael Naida,
> > prior to launching MHS, was the co-founder, with James Grayson and Kurt
> > List, of Westminster Recording Corp. Its distinguished catalogue included
> > many licensed items, mainly from French labels Erato, Vega, and Selmer.
> > Following the sale of Westminster to ABC, Naida founded MHS, whose
> > catalogue was almost all licensed material. Lp mastering was generally of
> > high quality as well as the pressed product. In the early 70s, MHS
> licensed
> > a large number of items from the British label Lyrita, a label previously
> > available only as a direct import. But remember, all MHS licensed
> releases
> > derived from tape submitters.
> >
> > Seymour Solomon bought back all the Vanguard classical catalogue from
> Welk
> > and converted much of it to CD. The classical reissues of the Welk era
> are
> > considerably inferior to the subsequent Vanguard releases. I do not know
> > what became of the Vanguard tapes after Seymour's death,
> >
> > DDR
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 1:17 PM, David Lewis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Well, Vanguard has changed hands as I thought it might:
> >>
> >> http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/news/concord-music-group-
> >> acquires-famed-independent-labels-vanguard-sugar-hill-welk-music-group/
> >>
> >> best,
> >>
> >> UD
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Steve Smolian <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Two further search threads.
> >>>
> >>> Concert Hall was owned by fitst name? Josefowitz.  Their European
> branch
> >>> issued two Seefried LPs which I own- I'm a very big fan.  I believe the
> >>> violinist Lila Josefowicz (various spellings) is related.
> >>>
> >>> Some years ago I was involved in a reissue project involving the Period
> >>> label and similar- Stradavarius, Oxford, etc., though much of it never
> >> came
> >>> out.  This was through a connection to the late Bernie Solomon of
> >>> excruciating Everest fame who claimed he had permission to issue this
> >> stuff
> >>> but on a non-exclusive basis and had the paper work to back up this
> >> claim.
> >>> In the course of this project, I had conversations with a
> representative
> >> of
> >>> the Canadian company, Madacy (?) who claimed the Period and Remington
> >> tapes
> >>> were in their possession, as were masters of lots of the other early
> >>> classical mono LP labels, including Everest.  They reissued a group of
> >>> Everest items though some were for deluxe download only, as I recall.
> At
> >>> some point in the proceedings, contact between this company and myself
> >>> ceased from their end-- no more phone calls or emails from them and no
> >>> response to any from my side.  It felt as if lawyers had stepped in
> but I
> >>> couldn't confirm this.  The Florida company for which I had worked went
> >> on
> >>> to other things.
> >>>
> >>> Madacy is related to record company in Hamburg that recorded and owns
> or
> >>> owned the 101 strings (25-1/4 instruments?) catalog and thus presumably
> >>> these masters.  I forget the German company name at the moment.
> Anyway,
> >>> this is a rabbit hole thatneeds exploring.
> >>>
> >>> Steve Smolian
> >>>
> >>> ----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:
> >>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Haley
> >>> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 10:51 AM
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] FW: [ARSCLIST] classical music LPs to CDs
> >>>
> >>> Gary is right about MHS.  They licensed any number of distinguished
> >>> European recordings, but I believe that they also made some of their
> own
> >>> recordings early on.  As I recall, the company was founded by a cellist
> >>> named something like Naida, who appears as a player on some of the
> >> earlier
> >>> chamber music recordings.  I had a lot of MHS recordings in my youth
> >> (still
> >>> have them) and loved many of them.  It was an education in baroque
> music,
> >>> with the likes of Kurt Redel, Marie-Claire Alain, Jean Pierre Rampal,
> >> Karl
> >>> Ristenpart (fantastic conductor!), I solisti Veneti, and many more very
> >>> great musicians.  I bought the MHS Goberman Vivaldi recordings, which I
> >>> still have somewhere, but too many of them are clearly rough
> >>> sight-reading.  The quality of the pressings was almost always
> >> excellent. I
> >>> know someone who is a friend of one of the descendants of the owner of
> >> the
> >>> label, and this thread reminds me to follow up about what happened to
> the
> >>> MHS master tapes.
> >>>
> >>> As for Remington and related labels, I have followed that trail some
> >> years
> >>> ago.  With a few exceptions, the masters are lost.  The owner of the
> >> label
> >>> died and his widow sold everything to a guy who was indicted and
> >> convicted
> >>> for fraud.  The Feds seized all the assets, including the Remington
> >>> masters, and they were never seen again, undoubtedly destroyed (one
> >> cannot
> >>> find that out).  A few of them survived because they were loaned out
> and
> >>> not returned, and about a dozen of those were later reissued in fine
> >>> pressings on Varese Sarabande. I don't know where those masters are
> >>> now--the guy who did the reissues, with whom I spoke, won't say and
> won't
> >>> let anyone access them.  .
> >>>
> >>> Dave, don't you think that the Concert Hall label and assets were
> simply
> >>> bought by someone in the UK?  It would be wonderful to find out where
> >> those
> >>> master tapes went.
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> John Haley
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Gary A. Galo <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Everything MHS issued was legitimate and under license. They never
> >>>> used pseudonyms.
> >>>>
> >>>> Gary
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:
> >>>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Morgan
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 9:42 AM
> >>>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] FW: [ARSCLIST] classical music LPs to CDs
> >>>>
> >>>> Living in the UK, we don't see as many MHS LPs (or CDs) as you, but I
> >>>> have seen many of the European discs they originated from, and I've
> >>>> never seen any name changes beyond those deemed necessary to make
> >>>> maybe unfamiliar European ensemble names more transparent to US
> buyers.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm no expert on the history of MHS - I wish I was - but I don't
> >>>> believe they would have needed to use pseudonyms, as they didn't (to
> >>>> my knowledge) issue European radio tapes which might have fallen off
> >>>> the back of a lorry, but licensed commercial European originations on
> >>>> a totally legit (and always
> >>>> acknowledged) basis. I'd welcome any correction.
> >>>>
> >>>> I believe MHS also originated material itself, or at least
> co-produced.
> >>>> One example is the Bach Cello Suites recorded by Nikolaus Harnoncourt;
> >>>> another is his Marin Marais LP. Both were licensed by Harmonia Mundi
> >>>> France, and are often assumed to be HM originations - but I don't
> >>>> think that's right. Seems odd, I know, that MHS should have a hand in
> >>>> these but in fact it had issued some of his earlier recordings made in
> >>>> Europe by Metronome and Amadeo. I'd love to know more but I fear that
> >>>> MHS's paper archive, if there was one, may already have bitten the
> >> dust.
> >>>>
> >>>> In fact, I'd love it if ARSC could look into the feasibility of a
> >>>> register of record company archives, not to mention master tapes -
> >>>> which would also include a register of known losses and destructions.
> >>>> But I realise that's a very big, erm... ask.
> >>>>
> >>>> Nick
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:
> >>>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard L. Hess
> >>>> Sent: 10 August 2017 13:53
> >>>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] classical music LPs to CDs
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2017-08-10 12:55 AM, Paul Stamler wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tracing what became of the 1950s labels (and their master tapes)
> >>>>> might make a nice article for the ARSC Journal.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> And that brings to my mind, what happened to Musical Heritage Society?
> >>>> I lost track of them when I left NYC in 1981 (if not before), but I
> >>>> understand that they moved from their over-stuffed Broadway office to
> >>>> some place in New Jersey. I have a bunch of their LPs. They offered an
> >>>> interesting way to explore music at reduced cost. Of course you always
> >>>> had to send that blasted coupon back every month or you got something
> >>>> you didn't want!
> >>>>
> >>>> My understanding was that many of their recordings were repurposed
> >>>> European recordings. Were they guilty of changing the names of the
> >>>> players/ensembles like some others?
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Richard
> >>>> --
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> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
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