The Universal Music Group labels have achieved a clean sweep of the top ten in Germany this week.
Top of the pile is a vinyl reissue of Claudio Abbado’s Mahler 2.
Also doing well is a resurrected Sviatoslav Richter album.
Shame about Sony and the rest of the field. Shame, too, about DG/Decca current artists.
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