Even Rach had a problem with recordlabels.

[sevencircles]

Did you know that Rachmaninoff wanted to record several other major piano works, including Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata, Liszt's Sonata in B minor and his own Symphonic Dances in a two-piano collaboration with Vladimir Horowitz, but RCA turned him down.

Perhaps it will make you feel a little better if have been turned down by record labels.

[arensky]

Infuriating to know that isn't it?    The recordings he could have made... 


When he first came to the US he recorded for the Edison Company. Thomas Edison had no musical sense at all, as indicated by this entry in his diary concerning Rachmaninov....

"The piano is wrong for this powerful player.."   

Artists should record what they wish too and the engineers, producers and marketing people should stick to their jobs and keep out of the artistic desicions and choices.

[sevencircles]

This problem is propably much more evident today.

Any tips for someone looking for the greatest unsigned pianist out there today?