The History of Deutsche Grammophon The last of six programmes in which Stephen Johnson celebrates the centenary of the Deutsche Grammophon record label.
Decline - and Fall? By 1979, DG's financial position was fragile: despite a fine catalogue, sales figures were poor. Salvation arrived in the shape of the CD - which curiously had the same diameter as Emile Berliner 's pioneering discs nearly a century earlier. With music by Brahms, Uadov and Ravel.
Producers Lyndon Jones and Martin Smith