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In Reply to: RE: Whatever happened to Philips? posted by mbnx01 on March 27, 2014 at 12:57:12
Decca has even reissued several Philips CDs with the same covers but with the Decca logo instead of the familiar burgundy stripe across the top of the cover. Sure looks weird. No new recordings have come out under the Philips label for quite a while now. (And if there were any, they'd be under Decca.)
They used to be my favorite label as well, particularly in the 70's. When just about everyone else was putting out lousy-sounding recordings, Philips (as well as EMI) were standouts. Great performances, too.
Russell
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The quality of Philips LPs was uniformly excellent (those pressed in Europe any way) as well as all of the other production values - and you could count on Philips for good, solid engineering -but many Decca recordings were spectacular and imaginative.
The Colin Davis Sibelius symphonies with the Boston Orchestra are still my favorites.
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If you like Philips recordings, the recording team responsible for the "Philips sound" still operate as Polyhymnia/Pentatone. So, in an important sense the label lives on as Pentatone.
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