Warner-owned Erato have issued an album of Sir Stephen Hough performing Mozart’s 9 & 21 piano concertos on Spotify.
The music has been chopped into tracks of between 41 seconds and 1:07 to maximise streaming data.
No-one would ever use Spotify for a classical experience.
How’s this for a cut-off?
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