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30th Apr 2017, 8:28 AM
	keebrev Member since Aug 2016 464 Points	Three weeks on holiday in the U.S.A. and mircacles happens...Classical Music becomes Live! :)....Admins (and Mods) thanks! German words without capitols reads a lot easier. Great! ...and yes what is Classical Music? Surely all the Deutsche Grammophon (GmbH) records, obviosly. Although, there is a a Grey Zone in Classical Music, for instance, musicals or folk music (already mentioned), jazzy music (Geshwin, yes). The West Side Story is a musical in a classical way by it's music composer ,Leonard Bernstein, a famous director. And what about The sound of Music?? New composers, like Arvo Part, are surely classical music, or Stockhausen, Holt, Cage (4:33) etc. Classical schoold musicians, yes, but when you hear the intepretation of Waldo de los Rios' 40th Symphony of Mozart absolutely not. It's the tune of the 40th blended with some beat. Or a (Dutch) popgroup named Ekseption, which played all the favorite classical tunes like popmusic. About Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft: it's quite simple: The label started in 1949 with 78 rpms and went over to 33 1/3 in the early 50's. They made a joint venture with Philips Phonographic Industries (PPI) in 1962, which merged 1971 to PhonoGram. From this day in 1971, Deutsche Grammophon was not a Gesellschaft mit beschänker Haftung (GmbH) anymore. New times, new logo without the Gesellschaft. DG had a lot of old sleeves, with the DGG logo, so you could easily find in the early 70's a DG label on the record in a old DGG sleeve or box. Hard to find are the DGG's seven numbered records (1970/1971). But....There are even still DGG issues of 45 rpm's in the 80's... Cat# is also not a good guide, because the five or later the six number system (stereo!) was changed in februari 1970 into a seven number (2xxx xxx). With the introduction of the CD they changed it again (4xx xxx-x). My proposal is: look at the label on the record, not the sleeve, to determine if it's a DGG or DG label. It's easy to do so. There are of coarse records with the same cat# issued as DGG and later as DG. To keep it simple, add the DG as a new entry, with a link to the DGG record.