The Shellackophile

I have had occasion, in the recent past, to sing the praises of New York's Gramophone Shop, and to enumerate their album series called...

Max Reger, 1906 I have had occasion to comment on the Reger Problem elsewhere (Irving Kolodin famously said that Reger's name sound...

Jørgen Bentzon Perhaps it was inevitable after the success of Carl Nielsen's great Wind Quintet of 1922, but Danish composers since ...

Cover design by Alex Steinweiss This is something that I should really have saved for Stokowski's birthday in April, but I simply co...

This week I present what appears to be the first recording of an orchestral work of Carl Nielsen to occupy more than one record (perhaps, ...

The 1610 Compenius Organ, Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark (as pictured in the booklet for the Gramophone Shop Celebrities Album) Happy Ne...

Some years ago, I uploaded two of the Musical Art Quartet's major recordings for Columbia, made during 1927 and 1928, noting there w...

Finn Viderø One of the most renowned record shops in America in the second quarter of the twentieth century was New York's Gramophon...

A few months ago, Nick Morgan tipped me off not only to the existence of this LP, but to its availability on ebay at a quite reasonable pr...