Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs: Eduard van Beinum and the Concertgebouw Orchestra: Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra
Decca Recording Details: After its first appearance on LP in the early 1950s, Eduard van Beinum and the Concertgebouw’s extraordinary account of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was eclipsed, at least…
Jennifer Vyvyan: Her 8 selected recordings, from the BBC broadcast of 18 July 1966
Jennifer Vyvyan’s Favorite of her 8 selections More history on the “Desert Island Discs” program and pictures in Issue 6 – available in your subscriber account – on page 160.
Desert Island Discs: Ernest’s Pick January 2023
Ernest’s Picks Happy New Year to all our readers! I hope 2022 was a fruitful year for all our collectors and music lovers, and I wish you a new year…
Desert Island Discs: Ernest’s Picks – Fall 2022
We are not short on reportages about the vinyl revival of our time. The discussion, however, tends towards the quality of the recorded sound, from trend-following crowd buying into the…
Desert Island Discs: Ernest’s Picks – Summer 2022
Pianists are often blamed for having a myopic view of music history, in that we all-too-often focus only on piano repertoire. This is not an article to dispute any of…
Sir John Barbirolli & The Hallé Orchestra: Claude Debussy’s La Mer
According to author Raymond Holden’s monumental Barbirolli: A Chronicle of a Career, Barbirolli led Debussy’s La Mer in concert on 175 occasions, with numerous orchestras, among the earliest being a…
From the Archives
Label Spotlight
Parnassus Records and Leslie Gerber: Home of the Muses
I was born in Brooklyn in 1943. Mine was a musical family. My parents were both school teachers but they were also active musicians. When my mother Shirley Gerber was…
Label Focus: Maestro Editions
A stunning selection of rare broadcast and long unavailable commercial recordings in superbly re-mastered sound and erudite liner notes makes Maestro Editions a must-go destination for the historical collector. Explore…
Label Focus: Archiphon
Archiphon, whose origins date back 40 years, has recently issued three extraordinary sets devoted to conductor Otto Klemperer, the label’s main focus. However, its catalog is far more extensive and…
Label Focus: SOMM Recordings
Among the leading lights of British independent labels, SOMM Recordings continues to shine brightly after more than a quarter century in the service of great music and artists. Based in…
Label Focus: Marston Records
For more than 40 years the name H. Ward Marston has been synonymous with excellence in audio transfer engineering, as well as historical recordings preservation and discovery. Those drawn to…
Label Focus: Sonetto Classics
“This is a dedicated and utterly professional undertaking” Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb-International “Pianophiles should be grateful that these magnificent recordings have survived and have been so expertly restored” Jed Distler, Classics…
Loose Leaf
Store Focus
CDandLP.com – The online marketplace dedicated to music
Although CDandLP.com is hardly an unknown entity, many readers may yet to have taken it for a test drive. The site has much to recommend it, particularly for those enamored…
Spiral Classics: From the English Midlands to the World
I started Spiral Classics in 1992 as a mail order business. My first task was to decide on a name for the new business. My partner pointed out that the…
AudiophileUSA: The Art of Collecting Vinyl
Just a 45-minute drive SE of Los Angeles will bring you to one of the world’s great record stores, a vinyl haven with over 50,000 LPs in stock, including some…
Melomania
For those, like the Editor, who have not yet abandoned the CD, the Paris-based melomania is simply an amazing shop with a vast (200,000+ title) catalog. Fortunately, for those unable to…
Delcampe.net: A unique online collectibles marketplace
The Online International Collectibles Marketplace Based in Belgium Quick Stats: After his application for a computer programming job at eBay Belgium was passed over, Sebastian Delcampe decided to combine his…
Shop Focus: La Dame Blanche
Although it remains a subject of continued debate, were the record industry’s fortunes measured solely by the number of stores still devoted solely to classical music, its future would appear…