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os closely os possible<br />
thol envisoged by lhe<br />
composer.<br />
Two moior evenls<br />
were orgonised in '1989 to<br />
celebrote Vodimir Ashkenozy's<br />
25th onniversory on lhe Decco<br />
lobel. "The Complete Musicion"<br />
wos releosed in the Spring ond<br />
the'Ashkenozy Edition" in lhe Foll,<br />
coinciding wilh his emotionol return<br />
lo ploy in lhe U.S.S.R. ofter o 26 yeor<br />
obsence.<br />
1989 qlso morked lhe 30 yeor<br />
portnership between Dqme Joon Sutherlond ond<br />
Decco, ond wos commemoroled by the releose of<br />
six mid-priced sets of Dqme Joqn's finest triumphs.<br />
Another besl-seller wos soprono Dome Kiri Te Konowo's<br />
"Songs of lnspirotion" with lhe Mormon Tobernocle Choir.<br />
Decco renewed its exclusive conlrqcl wilh Herbed Blomstedt<br />
ond the Son Froncisco Symphony Orcheslro by issuing o new releqse<br />
in Blomstedt's Nielsen Symphony cycle ond o complete version of<br />
Grieg's "Peer Gynt". The lobel olso signed lhe sensolionol young ltolion<br />
mezzo-soprono Cecilio Bortoli, ond releosed her debul recordings o{<br />
"The Borber o{ Seville" qnd o recitol of Rossini orios.<br />
Deutsche Grommophon<br />
Leonord Bernslein wos nomed "Musicion of the Yeor" by ihe publicotion<br />
"Musicol Americo" ond releosed powerful new recordings of Mohler<br />
symphonies, os well os recording his own comic operetto "Condide".<br />
Corlo Morio Giulini received Deulsche Grommophon's prestigious Golden<br />
Gromophone Aword for his long-stonding ossociotion with the lqbel qnd<br />
releosed q furlher recording in his occloimed Bruckner series wilh the<br />
Vienno Philhormonic.<br />
The yeor wos morked by first time recordings from cellist Moll<br />
Hoimovitz, violinist Gil Shohom ond pionisl Lilyo Zilbersiein, os well os<br />
Deutsche Grommophon debul recordings from Gerhord Oppiiz ond<br />
Moriq Jo6o Pires. ln oddition, the Emerson String Quorlet wos oworded<br />
Gromophone mogozine's "Record of lhe Yeor" oword.<br />
ln opero, Luciono Pqvqrotti mode his debut recording for<br />
Deutsche Grommophon, while Plqcido Domingo siorred in lhree opero<br />
releoses for lhe lobel. Other opero recordings come from Cloudio<br />
Abbodo, Jomes Levine ond Giuseppe Sinopoli.<br />
Deutsche Grommophon ond the world of clossicol music were<br />
soddened by the deoths of Herbert von Koroion ond Vlodimir Horowitz<br />
in 1989.Von Korojon hod o close ossociotion of over 50 yeors with the<br />
lobel, which hos the privilege of releosing his lhree finol recordings -<br />
Tchoikovsky's First Piono Concerlo with the young Russion pionisl Yevgeny<br />
Kissin qnd the Berlin Philhormonic Orchesiro, his lost opero recording of
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