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Meet classical music's biggest record breaker

The legendary Klaus Heymann, who engineered the cut-price CD revolution with his company Naxos, talks to Michael Tumelty on its twentieth anniversary.

Just over 20 years ago Klaus Heymann, a German-born entrepreneur resident in Hong Kong, did a favour for a business friend in Korea, an arrangement which went pear-shaped and landed Heymann with a product that he hadn't particularly wanted.