The Shellackophile

Léner String Quartet In the early 1920s English Columbia had two different string quartet ensembles that could claim the initials "...

Leopold Stokowski, 1924 As I mentioned earlier, back in 2008 I posted a whole series of acoustical orchestral and chamber music recor...

Marjorie Hayward The British violinist Marjorie Hayward (1885-1953) and the Australian-born pianist Una Bourne (1882-1974) were both vet...

John Ireland Back in 2008 I offered two different recordings featuring composers as piano accompanists in their chamber works.  One of t...

Paul Juon Here's the second of two posts to deal with the re-uploads of my National Gramophonic Society sets, featuring two electric...

Tomorrow is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt (born October 22, 1811), and, to celebrate, I'm taking a little break fr...

The National Gramophonic Society was founded in 1923 by Compton Mackenzie, under the aegis of his new magazine, "The Gramophone....

This was one of my most popular uploads when I offered it before, back in November 2007, with over 300 hits.  It's the fabled acoustic...

The reissues continue, with a trio of recordings by the great British conductor Sir Henry J. Wood (1869-1944).  Among these are the first ...