ABSTRACT
A small British conglomerate, Academy Sound and Vision was founded by Harley Usill and Jack Boyce in 1981 and is based in London. The initial ASV launch release consisted of 30 titles, many of them drawn from the Enigma catalog purchased from WEA. It currently controls these labels:ASV, COE, Living Era, Quicksilva, Gaudeamus, and RPO, with distribution in the USA handled by Koch. For a while, before Warner bought out the company, they also controlled Teldec. Artists and ensembles who have produced material on these labels include the Lindsays (regarded as one of the world’s finest string quartets), the London Mozart Players, the Clerks’ Group, Emma Johnson, the London Festival Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Mexican maestro Enrique Bátiz, Andre Previn, and Vlademir Ashkenazy, among many others. ASV remains a small company, now a team often people working in recently acquired offices in Hammersmith, England.
