[5] He spent twelve years with the Decca Record Company and became a freelance classical producer in 1984.
In 2000 he was closely involved in the creation of LSO Live, the London Symphony Orchestra's in house record label and has produced all their releases to date — currently 65 CDs.
By 2001, he was noted to have "won more Grammys than any other classical record producer except for Thomas Z. Shepard", with whom he was tied.
[6] His last recent venture was a record label for the Mariinsky Theatre and their music director Valery Gergiev in St Petersburg.
For the label, he produced several recordings conducted by Bernard Haitink, including a Grammy Award-winning release of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.