Originally Posted by trptmaster

How low will the MSO go?

Christmas disc with bruno pelletier is selling like hotcakes - at expense of orchestra's reputation

ARTHUR KAPTAINIS
The Gazette

Saturday, December 20, 2003

How many recordings has the Montreal Symphony Orchestra made over the last 13 months? A classical fan will shrug and say: none.

Would that it were so. But alas, the ensemble that was once the toast of the classical catalogue has made a Christmas disc. Not with Leontyne Price or Luciano Pavarotti, mind you, but with Quebec showman Bruno Pelletier.

The release, on Les Disques Artistes - in essence Pelletier's personal label - is already the second-best seller in MSO history, after Ravel's Boléro. This is the natural deduction to make if, as Pelletier claims, the disc has gone platinum and sold more than 100,000 copies.