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Finnish classical label Ondine, distributed in the UK by the Complete Record Company, has brokered an online royalty deal with the Philadelphia Orchestra to extend its catalogue of works by the composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. Although Ondine is committed to recording Rautavaara's output, the costs of producing a disc of his recent Eighth Symphony could not be justified. The work, commissioned and premiered last by the Philadelphia Orchestra under conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, is being offered as an MP3-encoded recording of the first performance on the label's website, www.ondine.net.
"To have recorded it with the Philadelphia ...