LONDON — Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s self-produced recording of Bach cantatas won record of the year honors Thursday at the annual Gramophone Awards. The recording, on Gardiner’s Soli Deo Gloria label, ...
THIRTY years ago, the possible use of gramophone records in phonological studies was realised and discussed at a meeting of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. Since then, large collections have been ...
Our decision to record all the Masses of Josquin des Prez was an article of faith in my terms if ever there was one. I have never believed in anthologising on record – the “complete works” of even the ...
Years before radios and televisions were the source of entertainment in most living rooms across the country, families gathered around non-electric, crank-wound gramophones and phonographs to enjoy ...
Back in 1926, Gramophone asked readers to select their top 10 Christmas party records as part of a competition. It was won by Leonard Emms, with John Beer as runner-up. Here are their lists, made up ...
Panic, outrage, consternation. All three greeted Gramophone readers in March 1949. The reason? A good old-fashioned format change. ‘I ask readers if they really want to feel that their collections are ...