Recordings on DG are from UMG. These have been encoded at an inferior bit rate and sound terrible. eMusic is aware of this and have chosen to do nothing about it. Don’t download UMG titles, but if you do, be sure to file a complaint with customer service and post your complaint on the message boards. eMusic customers need to know. You’d do better price-wise to buy a used copy on Amazon.
It goes by many names: the "Grammophon," the "Yellow Label," or simply "DG." No matter the moniker, that Deutsche Grammophon brand fairly oozes status. And as they say in Texas: It ain't braggin 'if it's so! The catalog is stuffed-to-bursting with world-renowned conductors, top soloists, the best orchestras and — well, you get the idea. Doing justice to that haul in a single guide is a forbidding task — and one that compels a few initial… more »
