In Monday’s (12/1) Musical America, Robert Egerton writes, “Netherlands-based T2 Entertainment group, whose labels included Brilliant Classics, Alia Vox, Col Legno, Membran, Preiser, ARC, and Newton Classics, a reissue label of about 230 titles, most of them from the archives of Decca, Philips, and EMI,” is going out of business. “Its demise follows that of Qualiton in the U.S., Harmonia Mundi Iberica in Spain, Codaex in Benelux and—just a few months ago—Fuse Group of Australia. Theo Lap, founder of Newton Classics, in receivership when T2 took it over, has been hired by Brilliant, one of T2’s backers, to set up an independent distribution network. Lap reports that he already has agreements with ‘quite a few important labels.’ Much of the distribution business had moved from business-to-business to business-to-consumer, he said.”
Posted December 8, 2014
