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I have just been emailed a link for Gramophone digital subscribers to the special electronic edition that is recordings selected for the shortlist for the 2021 Gramophone Awards.
The first thing that caught my eye was a full page ad from Apple congratulating the nominees. I do not recall Apple having ever placed an ad in Gramophone before. Now Gramophone is, how can I put this, always commercially sensitive ;-). This year's category list includes Orchestral, Chamber, Opera, Instrumental etc. as one would expect. However a new category has been added ; Spatial Audio ! It comes with a "Listen on Apple" logo and, of course, Apple's current big push is Dolby Atmos. Hmmm.....
"We need less, but better" - Dieter Rams
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None of those titles listed there are available in Dolby Atmos via any other format (such as blu-ray, etc.) - at least yet. I suspect that Apple may have come to some arrangement with "the big guns" (DG, Decca, Warner) to have exclusive rights to certain "mastered for Dolby Atmos" titles, at least for awhile.
BTW, here are the "candidates" in the "spatial audio" category, in case somebody doesn't want to follow your kindly provided link to the end:
- Bach: WTC II - Anderszewski (Warner)
- Dvorak: Cello Concerto - Soltani, Barenboim, SkD (DG)
- Elgar: Cello Concerto, Enigma Variaions - Kanneh-Mason, Rattle, LSO (Decca)
- Ives: Complete Symphonies - Dudamel, LAPO (DG)
- Josquin et al: "The Golden Renaissance" - Stile Antico (Decca)
- Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1, Symphonic Dances - Nezet-Seguin, Philadelphia Orchestra (DG)
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