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No. 1, Summer edition 1995
Collector news | The Nixa/Pye story, pt. 1 | Oda Slobodskaya | Beecham’s 1947 Messiah | From shellac to digital | Ataúlfo Argenta | Sir David Attenborough – Portrait of a collector | The great piano roll controversy | The collector and the market | Michael Hobson of Classic Records and the rebirth of quality vinyl | Letter from America | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Continental report | Alastair Robertson-Aikman interview | Audio commentary and news | Reviews
No. 2, Autumn edition 1995
Collector news | Walter Legge – the early years | The Gramophone Reprint – Walter Legge on Dennis Brain | Hugh Bean – Leading the Philharmonia | Audiophile spotlight – Karajan’s Falstaff | Portrait of a producer – Brain Culverhouse | Furtwängler’s Bayreuth Beethoven Ninth | Maureen Forrester | The Nixa/Pye story, pt. 2 | Franz von Vecsey – variations on a violinistic enigma | Letter from America | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Hearing LPs at their best | Audio and the record collector | The Music Performance Research Centre | Letters | Reviews
No. 3, Winter edition 1995
Collector news | Schumann’s Kinderszenen: a romantic view of childhood | Vox Productions – a short history | Vox Production (GB) Ltd | George H. de Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Reinhold Barchet and the Barchet Quartet | The Nixa/Pye Story, pt. 3 | Ward Marston: the compleat transfer engineer | Aureliano Pertile | Audiophile Spotlight – Monteux’s Daphnis et Chloé | Letter from America | Continental report | Far-Eastern report | Electrical recording: 70 years old this year | Audio and the record collector | Letters | New releases | Reviews
No. 4, Spring edition 1996
Collector news | Rita Streich (1920-1987) | The early Vienna Philharmonic recordings (1924-1945) | The Gramophone reprint – Gaisberg in Vienna | It seems only yesterday – Lionel Salter reminiscences | Early recordings of British music | Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony – the first recordings | Hilton Nixon: founder of the Nixa Record Company | Audiophile Spotlight –Beecham’s Faust Symphony | The recording career of Ida Haendel | New directions for Testament | New perspectives on Alessandro Moreschi | Letter from America | Far-Eastern report | Hearing 78s at their best | Letters | New releases | Reviews
No. 5, Summer edition 1996
Collector news | In the shadow of Talich | Vilém Tausky: a life in two parts | Ostrčil’s Bartered Bride | Esta, Ultraphon and Supraphon | The Vienna Octet | Fred Gaisberg – memories of my Uncle | The Gramophone Reprint – Casals in Prague | Léopold Simoneau | Hearing with both ears | Letter from America | Far-Eastern report | Audio and the record collector | Letters | New releases | Reviews
No. 6, Autumn edition 1996
Collector news | The Quartetto Italiano | Urania: the mystery label that keeps coming back | Reiner in Pittsburgh | The Slonimsky recordings | Julius Patzak | Mark Obert-Thorn – the moderate interventionist | The National Sound Archive | Reproducing 78s – the old-fashioned way | Audio and the record collector | Letter from America | Continental report | Far-Eastern report | Letters | New releases | Reviews
No. 7, Winter edition 1996
Collector news | The Westminster Recording Company – a short history | The Art of Elena Gerhardt | The RPO’s early years | Richter in Carnegie Hall | The Gramophone Reprint –conducting and recording in the Hollywood Bowl by Eugene Goossens | The Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound | Accidental stereo: the story so far | New light on analogue to digital | Audio and the record collector | Letter from America | Continental report | Far-Eastern report | Letters | New releases | Reviews
No. 8, Spring edition 1997
Collector news | The musical legacy of East Germany | In search of Eterna LPs | Die Meistersinger in Dresden | The Art of Graziella Sciutti | Bill Newman’s Salad Days | Urania – a postscript | The LP collector in a changing market | Spinning round USA’s used record shops | Stylus maker to the world | A Short History of 78rpm Record Albums | Audio and the record collector | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Letters | New releases | Reviews
No. 9, Summer edition 1997
Variations on an enigma – Wilhelm Backhaus | The Koch Swann Vienna State Opera Series | The recording of Johannes Brahms | The art of Georges Thill | The EMI Archive | Interview with EMI transfer engineer Andrew Walter | The musical legacy of East Germany, pt. 2 | Portrait of Emil Berliner | The advent of magnetic tape recording | Audio and the record collector – demonstration LPs | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental dispatch | New releases | Reviews
No. 10, Autumn edition 1997
Aksel Schiøtz unmasked | Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra | The violinist Kai Laursen | Robert Layton under Scandinavia’s spell | The Haydn Society of Boston | Les six of the piano | Roy Wallace interview | Recordings in the Queen’s Hall | Record player care | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 11, Winter edition 1997
Leonie Rynasek: a champion soprano | Harold C. Schonberg’s favourite romantic pianists | Leopold Stokowski 20 years on | Gordon Parry remembers working on the Decca Ring | The engineer Kenneth E. Wilkinson talks to Charles Gerhardt | Dame Myra Hess | Tales from the 1950s Vienna studios | The renaissance of the valve | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 12, Spring edition 1998
Mengelberg and Mahler | John Steane on Elisabeth Grümmer | James Blades looks back | Classical LPs of great price | Budapest Quartet, from Russia to Budapest | Beethoven and the Budapest Quartet | Gramophone: the first 75 years | The harpsichord on 78s | Rights and wrongs of copying | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 13, Summer edition 1998
Roy Henderson talks to Tully Potter | 100 years of Deutsche Grammophon | DG’s post-war years | ICRC Historic Awards 1998 | Danish singers on cylinders | Artur Rodzinski – maestro or martinet? | Julian Lloyd Webber’s formative records | Liszt pupils on record | 50 years of the LP | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 14, Autumn edition 1998
Risë Stevens on record | Knappertsbusch’s recorded legacy | How the LP was born | Mortimer H. Frank on 50 years’ collecting | Edwin Fischer’s recordings | Archiv Produktion’s golden jubilee | Seymour Solomon of Vanguard | Roger Beardsley on dubbed 78rpm recordings | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 15, Winter edition 1998
Toscanini in America | Toscanini’s European influence | Selling your LPs | Carl Flesch: a teacher as artist | Treasures in charity shops | Seth Winner interviewed | Milton Katims on an off the record | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 16, Spring edition 1999
Florence Austral, by John Steane | Walter Widdop, by Tully Potter | The career of Albert Coates | Reginald Kell, king of the clarinet | First BBC Legends releases | Getting the best out of 78s | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 17, Summer edition 1999
ICRC Historic Awards, 1999 | The shadowy Hermann Abendroth | Günther Ramin, Cantor of Leipzig | Britten the performer | John T. Hughes on rare vocal LPs | Marcel Moyse, the magic flautist | The Discofil label | Peter Bartók and Bartók Records | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 18, Autumn edition 1999
Hans Kindler and his recordings | Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra | Lyrita at 40 | The New York Philharmonic’s legacy | Roy Douglas, orchestrator extraordinaire | The Warsaw Concerto | Cylinders – the pros and cons | Reviews
No. 19, Winter edition 1999
Sir John Barbirolli centenary | Barbirolli in New York | Lady Barbirolli interview | Barborolli’s most celebrated EMI recordings | Telefunken’s rise and fall | Johanna Martzy, a briefly burning star | Lionel Salter recalls his BBC days | Pitching 78s | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 20, Spring edition 2000
Weingartner’s career and legacy | Walter Gieseking’s puzzling career | Kim Borg interviewed | Kabasta’s catastrophe | the Classics Club label | Secrets of reviewing, by Mortimer H. Frank | Recalling quadrophony | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 21, Summer edition 2000
Emmy Destinn’s career and recordings | The art of Victor de Sabata | Ernest Lough recalls Hear my prayer | The triumphs and tragedies of the Saga label | Jacob Harnoy’s restorations | David Lennick and Graham Newton’s transfer philosophies | John Borwick explores the internet | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases
No. 22, Autumn edition 2000
Eduard van Beinum and the Concertgebouw Orchestra | Van Beinum’s Los Angeles tapes | Rachmaninov and Chaliapin: the unlikely friends | In search of Lubka Kolessa | The LP heyday of Melodiya | George Eskdale, world-famous trumpeter | Restoring damaged post-war Victor pressings | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 23, Winter edition 2000
Igor Kipnis remembers recording with Stokowski | Stokowski and the New York Philharmonic | Stokowski’s magic fire | Stokowski and British music | The Concert Hall record club | Centenary profile of Isidore Godfrey | CRC Historic Awards 2000 | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 24, Spring edition 2001
Désiré Defauw in Chicago | Alfred Dubois and Marcel Maas | The Quatuor Pro Arte of Brussels | Jussi Björling’s last sessions | Historic Masters Ltd | Enesco records Bach | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 25, Summer edition 2001
Maestros who died young | Wilma Cozart of Mercury | Mono Mercury recordings | The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | The art of Robert Radford | The pros and cons of recording live | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 26, Autumn edition 2001
Howard Snell recalls George Szell | Wilma Cozart of Mercury, pt. 2 | Stereo Mercury LPs | Recording in Crystal Palace | Unforgettable Szigeti | Maggi Payne and Music & Arts restorations | Updating your sound system | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 27, Winter edition 2001
Bruno Walter in focus | Good Haydn style on record | Saint-Saëns in the studio | Five ladies’ recordings of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto | Walter Legge and Sibelius | John Borwick recall his career | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 28, Spring edition 2002
Kyrill Kondrashin’s art and recordings | The Record Society | Amelita Gall-Curci and bel canto repertoire | Robert Casadesus explored | Playing 78s | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 29, Summer edition 2002
Ansermet in Russian repertoire | Ansermet in the Viennese classics | Caruso’s centenary | Max Fiedler and the critics | Peter Rybar, a cult figure violinist | Some disadvantages of stereo | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 30, Autumn edition 2002
Eugene Goossens and his downfall | Goossens in the studio | Dismal disasters on disc | 78rpm guitar recordings | Antony Hodgson considers why some artists omit repeats | Max Fiedler, pt. 2 | Digital LPs and CDs after 30 years | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviewso
No. 31, Winter edition 2002
The humane side of Yevgeni Mravinsky | Mravinsky and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony | Non-vocal Remington issues | Vocal Remingtons | The early Casals Festivals | The Moravian tenor Benno Blachut | Listening room acoustics | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 32, Spring edition 2003
More non-vocal Remingtons | Tribute to Sir Adrian Boult | Boult and the LPO | Boult, Mahler and the moderns | Boult – the formative years |Toti Dal Monti and her few recordings | DVD-Audio and SACD Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 33, Summer edition 2003
Yvonne Printemps, leading exponent of opérette | Historic Record Awards, 2003 | Rise and fall of the Léner Quartet | The recordings of Harry Newstone | Giulia Ravogli – an Edwardian mystery | Gino Marinuzzi remembered | High resolution home listening| Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 34, Autumn edition 2003
Monteux’s recorded legacy | The LSO and Monteux | The Opus Kura label | Orchestral rarities on LP | Dame Janet Baker at 70 | The real Budapest Quartet | High resolution audio | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 35, Winter edition 2003
Paul Kletzki considered | Russell Oberlin, great countertenor | The Beethoven State Quartet of Moscow | Style in Mozart’s orchestral recordings | Paul Myers on the decline in the record industry | How Roger Beardsley transfers LPs to CD | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 36, Spring edition 2004
Nicolai Malko and his late recordings | Goddard Lieberson, Columbia’s renaissance man | Michael Bohnen and his downfall | Micael Bohnen’s German operatic recordings | Carlo Maria Giulini interview | Early Kingsway Hall sessions | The Linn LP12 turntable | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 37, Summer edition 2004
Christopher N. Nozawa, Japanese collector extraordinary | Hamilton Harty of the Hallé | CRC Awards 2004 | Carlo Maria Interview, pt. 2 | Kingsway Hall sessions, pt. 2 | The convoluted Patti recording sessions | The LSO’s first 50 years | Record cataloguing software | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 38, Autumn edition 2004
William Steinberg’s hard-earned reputation | Huberman, the individual violinist | Huberman and the Israel Philharmonic | The golden age of Jewish cantors | A cantorial roll call | Kingsway Hall sessions, pt. 3 | Caring for reel-to-reel tapes | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 39, Winter edition 2004
Playing for Furtwängler | Early Furtwängler LPs | Furtwängler, high priest of Beethoven | Furtwängler’s Haydn and Mozart | Furtwängler’s Fidelio recorded live | Peter Bartók and Bartók Records | The recordings of David Lloyd | The pianist Hubert Harry | Caring for vinyl discs | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 40, Spring edition 2005
Franz Schalk’s recordings | Myriam Scherchen discusses her father Hermann | Peter Andry reminiscences | The SPA label | Meta Seinemeyer’s brief career | The mechanics of SACD | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviewsr
No. 41, Summer edition 2005
Nikolai Golovanov of the Bolshoi | The Stuyvesant Quartet | Peter Andry and the EMI years | Fritzi Massary, empress of operetta | Charles Adler’s Mahler | Mogens Wöldike and his recordings | Downloading from the internet | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 42, Autumn edition 2005
Poldi Mildner rarities | Orchestral memories of Beecham | Beecham and the LPO | Managing Sir Thomas | Late Beecham recording plans | Instrumental and vocal SPA recordings | McCormack and Kreisler together on record | More digital downloading practicalities | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 43, Winter edition 2005
Tribute to Leslie Jones | Leslie Jones, recording artist | Curzon’s 78rpm recordings | Curzon in Beethoven and Brahms | CRC Historical Awards 2005 | The recordings of Hermann Uhde | Alan Kelly and his discographies | Finding elusive Hi Fi spare parts | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 44, Spring edition 2006
The unassuming Karl Ristenpart | The pioneering Flonzaley Quartet | Curzon considered, Pt. 2 | The Greek mezzo Elena Nikolaidi | Lost orchestral cylinders of the USA | Living Stereo philosophies | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviewsr
No. 45, Summer edition 2006
Karajan’s life, career and recordings | Karajan and Furtwängler | Karajan and his players | Curzon’s live and broadcast recordings | More on early US orchestral records | The Prague Quartet | Playing celluloid cylinders | Paul Baily, transfer engineer | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 46, Autumn edition 2006
The neglected Hermann Abendroth | James Brown’s studio recollections | Decca’s publicity machinery in the late 1940s | Decca’s publicity machinery and 1950s stereo | The Amadeus Quartet | The exciting Yvette Guilbert | New players, cartridges and speakers | The Moth cleaning machine | Ward Marston’s vocal transfers | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 47, Winter edition 2006
Toscanini, myth and reality | Toscanini and the BBCSO | Licia Albanese recalls Toscanini | Toscanini and Brahms’s First Symphony | CRC Historical Awards 2006 | Julian Bream interview | Profile of Yves Nat | More Decca publicity revelations | The transfer art of Mark Obert-Thorn | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 48, Spring edition 2007
Dohnányi’s recordings | Konstantin Ivanov remembered | Volker Straus, pre-eminent record producer | The French baryton-Martin voice on record | The Kolisch Quartet | Abbey Road studio anecdotes | The ascent and descent of the Everest label | Roger Beardsley interview | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviewso
No. 49, Summer edition 2007
George Szell’s early career | The Leech Collection of acetates | The Konzerthaus Quartet on Westminster | Volker Straus interview, pt. 2 | The baryton-Martin voice on record, pt. 2 | | The ascent and descent of the Everest label, pt. 2 | Technical changes at Abbey Road over 50 years | Musical Fidelity’s digital-to-analogue converter | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 50, Autumn edition 2007
George Szell’s later career | Reynaldo Hahn profile | Violinist Peter Mountain’s reminiscences | The battle to record Francesco Tamagno | The Barber of Seville traduced on record | EMI engineer Robert Gooch in interview | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 51, Winter edition 2007
Enescu the great all-rounder | More recollections from Peter Mountain | The short career of Thomas Schippers | Marcelle Meyer, composers’ muse | Some better Barber of Seville recordings | The art of Aksel Schiøtz | Reminiscences by Decca engineer James Lock | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | New releases | Reviews
No. 52, Spring edition 2008
Oscar Fried, disciple of Mahler | Italian comic opera overview | Heifetz and the Brahms Concerto | Confusing HMV matrices from Vienna | Frank Guarrera interview | Obscure website bargains | Furtwängler’s newly issued Beethoven Ninth | Ted Kendall, engineer inventor | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | Reviews
No. 53, Summer edition 2008
Guilhermina Suggia, Portugese cellist | Michelangeli’s Italian radio recordings | Stokowski’s musical philosophy | The Stockholm Opera CD series | Marcel Mule, saxophone pioneer | Rudolf Schwarz, a controversial conductor | Interview with Michael Dutton | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | Reviews
No. 54, Autumn edition 2008
Hina Spani, Argentinian soprano | A question of authenticity on record | Albert Spalding, America’s first international violinist | The art of Artur Rodzinsky | Vaughan Williams as conductor | Julius Block’s celebrity cylinders | Ted Kendall compares tape and LP as source material | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Reviews
No. 55, Winter edition 2008
The Griller Quartet, from Bliss to Bloch | The Ballets Russes company | Joachim and his recordings | The art of Mindru Katz | Thirty years of Chandos | Alexander Gauk, Soviet conductor | Mark Reizen, the noble Bolshoi bass | CHARM’s transfer techniques | Letter from America | Continental report | Reviews
No. 56, Spring edition 2009
Australia’s orchestras on record | The Calvet Quartet | Cesare Formichi, Italian baritone | Stokowski and Westminster | Delta Records | The Ballets Russes, pt. 2 | Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis SO | Interview with Symposium’s Eliot Levin | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | Reviews
No. 57, Summer edition 2009
Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist | Nellie Melba’s recorded legacy | Christopher Raeburn interview | Victor Hochauser and three great Russian musicians | The Fidelio, Summit and Concert Artist labels | Australia’s instrumental and vocal recordings | Philip Stuart, indefatigable discographer | EMI’s Stereosonic tape issues | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report Reviews
No. 58, Autumn edition 2009
Edward Downes, an appreciation | The tragic violinist Mari Iwamoto | The recordings of Darius Milhaud. pt. 1 | Montserrat Caballé on her famous roles | The Concert Artist, Revolution and Egmont labels | Tancredo Pasero, Italian bass | Micolai Malko re-visited | Letter from America | Far-Eastern Viewpoint | Continental report | Reviews
No. 59, WInter edition 2009
Jenő Hubay, prince of the violin | Constantin Silvestri | The recordings of Darius Milhaud, pt. 2 | Maria Yudina, the rebel pianist | Soprano Virginia Zeani, connoisseur’s legend | Watson Forbes, influential viola player | Interview with engineer Tony Faulkner | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 60, Spring edition 2010
Paderewski’s European recording sessions | Michel Schwalbé, Karajan’s concertmaster | George Georgescu, a Rumanian icon | Darius Milhaud’s recordings, pt. 3 | Virginia Zeani, connoisseur’s legend, pt. 2 | America’s BJR label | Some unjustly despised recordings | Carlos Paita in the recording studio | Stokowski and binaural recording | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 61, Summer edition 2010
Stefi Geyer and her pupil Aïda Stucki | Mahler and Vienna | Wyn Morris, the Celtic Furtwängler | Singers who rarely recorded | Paul Myers interview | Jean Martinon, a centenary tribute | The download revolution | Accidental stereo | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 62, Autumn edition 2010
The London String Quartet | Tribute to Sir Charles Mackerras | Vladimir Sofronitzky, poet of the keyboard | The soprano voice on 78s | Schoenberg and Ultraphon | The download revolution, pt. 2 | Glasgow’s record shops | Old and new electronic stereo techniques | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 63, Winter edition 2010
Bidú Sayão, lyric soprano | Sayão’s recorded legacy | Beecham remembered | Mitropoulos and the NYPO | Pavel Štěpán and Ilja Hurník | Ultraphon’s rise and fall | The Philharmonic String Quartet | Lucine Amara interview | The download revolution, pt. 3 | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 64, Spring edition 2011
The legacy of Dinu Lipatti | Milhaud’s spoken word recordings | Diaghilev’s Russian Historic Concerts | Diaghilev’s operatic productions | Life in the New York Philharmonic | The Vienna Octet | Georg Tintner, a vexed life | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 65, Summer edition 2011
The Tintner legacy | More singers who rarely recorded | The Virtuoso Quartet | Peter Katin at 80 | Lost Toscanini La Scala recordings | Encountering Hindemith | The redemption of Havergal Brian | The lost legacy of Jacob Lateiner | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 66, Autumn edition 2011
Cecilia Hansen, Venus of the violin | Hans Hirsch, DG visionary | Sir Alexander Gibson | Martinů in his time, pt. 1 | Piccaver, Vienna’s English tenor | Urania’s opera recordings | Imitating Grieg’s recordings | Forgotten Records profile | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 67, Winter edition 2011
The Bohemian and Ševčík quartets | John Goldsmith, founder of Unicorn | Urania’s opera recordings, pt. 2 | Delius anniversary reflections | Jack Law, Decca engineer | Recollections of Bruno Walter | Tribute to Kenneth McKellar | Legendary Neveu and Lipatti sessions | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 68, Spring edition 2012
Pablo Sarasate, legendary violinist | Royalton Kisch re-discovered | Martinů in his time, pt. 2 | The Parnassus label | Memories of percussionist John Cave | La Gioconda on record |Japan’s Grand Slam label | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 69, Summer edition 2012
Kathleen Ferrier centenary symposium | The Casals Trio | Costa Pilavachi, a major record industry personality | Myaskovsky on record | Carlo Sabajno and Lorenzo Molajoli, house conductors | Reginald Goodall discoveries | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 70, Autumn edition 2012
The legacy of Hans Rosbaud | Pelléas et Mélisande interpretations | The Smetana Quartet | Urania’s Leipzig recordings | Martinů in his time, pt. 3 | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 71, Winter edition 2012
Karl Erb, voice from another world | The LPO’s first decade | The art of Clifford Curzon | Jonathan Sternberg’s early recordings | Howard H. Scott, distinguished recording producer | Urania’s Leipzig recordings, pt 2 | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 72, Spring edition 2013
Constantin Silvestri’s extraordinary career | Michael H. Gray’s major discographical project | Famous contraltos on record, pt. 1 | Christopher Bishop interview | Martinů in his time, pt. 4 | The life and death of Kingsway Hall | Douglass MacDonald, the record hunter | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 73, Summer edition 2013
The legendary cellist Daniil Shafran | The UN’s tape vaults | Famous contraltos on record, pt. 2 | Otto Klemperer, anniversary memories | Martinů in his time, pt. 5 | Le sacre du printemps centenary conundrums | Forgotten Mozart piano sonata recordings | Andrew Keener recollections | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 74, Autumn edition 2013
Robert Whitney and the Louisville Orchestra | Wagnerian singers and their styles | János Starker remembered | André Charlin and Carl de Nys, a productive partnership | Famous contraltos on record, pt. 3 | Benjamin Britten’s first performers | Percy Pitt remembered | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 75, Winter edition 2013
Dohnányi’s piano recordings | Percy Pitt remembered, pt.2 | Famous contraltos on record, pt. 4 | Vic Firth, eminent timpanist | Ferde Grofé revisited | Haydn’s first symphony cycle | Louisville records come to RCA | Rudolf Mauresberger, musican of five eras | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 76, Spring edition 2014
Marie Hall, Edwardian violin diva | Stanley Goodall, master balance engineer | Malcolm Sargent, populariser of music | Tito Gobbi, a centenary tribute | Haydn’s first symphony cycle, pt. 2 | Famous contraltos on record, pt. 5 | Dohnányi’s notable piano pupils | More on Dohnányi’s recordings | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 77, Summer edition 2014
Lyrita Records and Richard Itter | Marie Hall, Elgar and HMV | Audio Fidelity, pioneering American label | Famous contraltos on record, pt. 6 | Lawrance Collingwood, an underestimated musician | Werner Resel, cellist and chairman of the VPO | Centenary memories of Rafael Kubelík | Takashi Asahina, outstanding Japanese conductor | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 78, Autumn edition 2014
Thomas Jensen and the Nielsen tradition | Early Nielsen symphony recordings | Flagstad and the Four Last Songs | Tribute to Carlos Kleiber | Beatrice Harrison, the British cellist | Famous contraltos on record, pt. 7 | The record stores on yesteryear | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 79, Winter edition 2014
Richard Strauss’s recordings | Lirico-Spinto sopranos on record | Aubrey Brain, modest horn player | Beatrice Harrison, British cellist, pt. 2 | Claudio Abbado, the quiet fanatic | The Phase 4 story | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
No. 80, Spring edition 2015
Callas’s last opera recording | Aubrey Brain, modest horn player, pt. 2 | Successful Third Reich musicians | Sviatoslav Richter, centenary memories | Rachmaninov’s recording cuts | Samuil Feinberg, Soviet pianist of genius | Goodbye CRQ and Tahra | Continental report | Far-Eastern viewpoint | Reviews
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