In Reply to: "How to buy a record review" posted by Poles Apart on October 27, 2011 at 18:05:23:
Sounds like more typical twaddle from Mr. Lebrecht. What he describes as "corruption" is a common practice of numerous magazines in numerous fields, not just music, and doesn't fool intelligent readers one bit, at least not more than once.
Individual reviewers must build their own reputations and credibility from scratch based on their own work, as Mr. Youngren apparently did for that reader.
Do you accept some random opinion as absolute truth merely because it appears in Gramophone? The N.Y. Times? Billy Bob's internet junkyard opinions.com? The Boston Globe, which published an article by its classical music critic praising Joyce Hatto to the skies? Come on.
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Follow Ups
- Poppycock. - rbolaw 07:12:35 10/28/11 (14)
- "The Boston Globe, which published an article by its classical music critic praising Joyce Hatto." NO! - Poles Apart 10:24:25 10/28/11 (13)
- YES! - rbolaw 11:04:21 10/28/11 (12)
- Well, not really... - Kas 13:21:23 10/28/11 (10)
- RE: Well, not really... - rbolaw 14:46:40 10/28/11 (9)
- "the Hatto CDs were speed manipulated" - Chris from Lafayette 23:23:19 10/28/11 (8)
- RE: "the Hatto CDs were speed manipulated" - rbolaw 12:31:23 10/29/11 (0)
- Had some filched CDs not been left alone, the fraud might not have come to light - John Marks 07:46:14 10/29/11 (6)
- RE: Had some filched CDs not been left alone, the fraud might not have come to light - rbolaw 12:25:25 10/29/11 (5)
- Well, at least one undoctored CD slipped into the stream of commerce, and the jig was well and truly up. - John Marks 11:33:44 10/30/11 (4)
- All true - rbolaw 13:39:01 10/30/11 (3)
- Look at Ivan Moravec's discography... That's more the norm. - John Marks 18:44:12 10/30/11 (2)
- Moravec/Schumann - pbarach 14:58:11 11/01/11 (0)
- Exactly. nt - rbolaw 12:11:36 10/31/11 (0)
- Yes - Dyer was bad - Chris from Lafayette 13:06:52 10/28/11 (0)