That's what classical-music doomsayer Norman Lebrecht says on his blog, La Scena Musicale (www.scena.org. If so, that will be the end of one of classical music's most distinguished imprints, whose releases have included the legendary Georg Solti "Ring" Cycle, the first cycle of the complete Haydn symphonies and oodles of operas featuring the likes of Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti. For years distributed in North America on the "London" label, because of a copyright held on these shores by another Decca label, the English-based Decca was also a pioneer in higher-fidelity recording techniques.
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