Vox launches online shopping facility. (Classical news).

Leading North American classical indie Vox Music Group, distributed in the UK by Priory Records, has launched a custom CD service to offer affordable and easy access to its extensive archive. The Vox label was established in the late Forties and forged a reputation for producing good recordings for retail at low prices.

Vox catalogue jewels include Otto Klemperer's complete cycle of the Beethoven symphonies made with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in the Fifties and a legendary performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder conducted by the composer's pupil Rene Leibowitz.

"It's difficult for a big record company to run off a small pressing," says Vox technical and repertory director Gene Gaudette. "Making 500 copies of a record hasn't been cost-effective--especially now, when the big record retailers are in such a state of flux." He explains that the custom CD-burning facility, now offered on the Vox website, ...