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Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Catalogue Numbers
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Acknowledgements
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An International Mail-order Source for Recordings in the UK
Foreword
The earliest years of recording: Edison’s cylinder phonograph
The arrival of the recording industry’s first key artistic figure: Fred Gaisberg
The simple early cylinder recording technology
Emile Berliner and his flat disc recording system
Gaisberg joins Berliner
Gramophone companies appear in the USA and Europe
Gaisberg as the first outstanding recording producer
The LP arrives
The coming of stereo in the UK
Stereo arrives in the USA
The CD takes over, SACD adds realism, and the DVD offers a further new dimension
A Timeline for Key Composers Included in Our Choices
11th–12th centuries: Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179); Perotinus (c. 1160–1225); Léonin (c. 1153–1201)
15th–17th centuries: Josquin Desprez (c. 1440–1521); Thomas Tallis (c. 1505–85); William Byrd (1543–1623); Carlo Gesualdo (1561–1613); Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643); Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625); Henry Purcell (1659–95)
17th–18th centuries: Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741); Georg Telemann (1681–1767); Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750); George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
18th–19th centuries: Thomas Arne (1710–78); Joseph Haydn (1732–1809); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91); Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827); Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
18th and 19th centuries (in the opera house): Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868); Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848); Vincenzo Bellini (1801–35)
19th century (first part): Hector Berlioz (1803–69); Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47); Frédéric Chopin (1810–49); Franz Liszt (1811–86); Richard Wagner (1813–83); Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901); Charles Gounod (1818–93); Jacques Offenbach (1819–80); Anton Bruckner (1824–96); Johannes Brahms (1833–97); Georges Bizet (1838–75); Peter Tchaikovsky (1840–93); Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904); Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
19th century (second part): Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924); Leoš Janáček (1854–1928); Edward Elgar (1857–1934); Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924); Gustav Mahler (1860–1911); Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Claude Debussy (1862–1918); Frederick Delius (1862–1934); Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957); Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958); Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943); Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871–1942); Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951); Charles Ives (1874–1954); Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971); Nikolai Miaskovsky (1881–1950); Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959); Serge Prokofiev (1891–1953); Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
20th century: Aaron Copland (1900–1990); Samuel Barber (1910–81)
William Walton (1902–83); Benjamin Britten (1913–76); Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–75)
Olivier Messiaen (1908–92); Einojuhani Rautavaara (born 1928)
John Adams (born 1947); Thomas Adès (born 1971)
Ballet Music
Some classic ballet recordings
Richard Bonynge
Serge Diaghilev
Balanchine
Opera: A Historical Timeline
Italian opera
German opera
Wagner
Richard Strauss
French opera
Russian opera
Czech opera
Other 20th- and 21st-century operas
The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings
ADAM, Adolphe (1803–56)
ADAMS, John (born 1947)
ADÈS, Thomas (born 1971)
ALBÉNIZ, Isaac (1860–1909)
ALBINONI, Tomaso (1671–1751)
ALFVÉN, Hugo (1872–1960)
ALKAN, Charles-Valentin (1813–88)
ALWYN, William (1905–85)
ANSERMET, Ernest (conducting various orchestras)
ANSERMET, Ernest, with the Suisse Romande Orchestra
ARENSKY, Anton (1861–1906)
ARGENTA, Ataulfo (with various orchestras)
ARNE, Thomas (1710–78)
ARNOLD, Malcolm (1921–2006)
AUBER, Daniel (1782–1871)
BACH, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714–88)
BACH, Johann Christian (1735–82)
BACH, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750)
BAKER, Janet (mezzo)
BAKER, Janet, with the Melos Ensemble of London
BANTOCK, Granville (1868–1946)
BARBER, Samuel (1910–81)
BARBIROLLI, Sir John, with various orchestras
BARTÓK, Béla (1881–1945)
BARTOLI, Cecilia (mezzo-soprano), with the Orchestra La Scintilla, directed by Ada Pesch
BAX, Arnold (1883–1953)
BEECHAM, Sir Thomas (with London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra or French National Radio Orchestra)
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van (1770–1827)
BELLINI, Vincenzo (1801–35)
BERG, Alban (1885–1935)
BERGANZA, Teresa (mezzo-soprano)
BERKELEY, Lennox (1903–89)
BERLIOZ, Hector (1803–69)
BERNERS, Lord (1883–1950)
BERNSTEIN, Leonard (1918–90)
BERWALD, Franz (1796–1868)
BIBER, Heinrich (1644–1704)
BIRTWISTLE, Harrison (born 1934)
BIZET, Georges (1838–75)
BLISS, Arthur (1891–1975)
BLOCH, Ernest (1880–1959)
BOCCHERINI, Luigi (1743–1805)
BOÏELDIEU, François (1775–1834)
BONYNGE, Richard
BORODIN, Alexander (1833–87)
BOUGHTON, Rutland (1878–1960)
BOULANGER, Lili (1893–1918)
BOWEN, York (1884–1961)
BRAHMS, Johannes (1833–97)
BRIDGE, Frank (1879–1941)
BRITTEN, Benjamin (1913–76)
BRUCH, Max (1838–1920)
BRUCKNER, Anton (1824–96)
BUSH, Geoffrey (1920–98)
BUSONI, Ferruccio (1866–1924)
BUTTERWORTH, George (1885–1916)
BUXHEIMER ORGELBUCH, DAS (c. 1460)
BUXTEHUDE, Dietrich (c. 1637–1707)
BYRD, William (1543–1623)
CALLAS, Maria (soprano)
CAMPRA, André (1660–1744)
CANTELOUBE, Marie-Joseph (1879–1957)
CAVALLI, Francesco (1602–76)
CHABRIER, Emmanuel (1841–94)
CHARPENTIER, Gustave (1860–1956)
CHARPENTIER, Marc-Antoine (1643–1704)
CHAUSSON, Ernest (1855–99)
CHERUBINI, Luigi (1760–1842)
CHOPIN, Frédéric (1810–49)
CHRISTOFF, Boris (bass)
CILEA, Francesco (1866–1950)
CIMAROSA, Domenico (1749–1801)
CLARKE, Rebecca (1886–1979)
CLEMENTI, Muzio (1752–1832)
COATES, Eric (1886–1957)
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, Samuel (1875–1912)
COLLINS, Anthony (1893–1963)
CONNESSON, Guillaume (born 1970)
COPLAND, Aaron (1900–1990)
CORELLI, Arcangelo (1653–1713)
CORIGLIANO, John (born 1938)
CORRETTE, Michel (1707–95)
COUPERIN, François (1668–1733)
COWARD, Noël (1899–1973)
CRUSELL, Bernhard (1775–1838)
CURZON, Clifford (piano)
DEBUSSY, Claude (1862–1918)
DELIBES, Léo (1836–91)
DELIUS, Frederick (1862–1934)
DÉSORMIÈRE, Roger, with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
DITTERSDORF, Carl Ditters von (1739–99)
DONIZETTI, Gaetano (1797–1848)
DOVE, Jonathan (born 1959)
DOWLAND, John (1563–1626)
DUKAS, Paul (1865–1935)
DURUFLÉ, Maurice (1902–86)
DUTILLEUX, Henri (born 1916)
DVOŘÁK, Antonín (1841–1904)
DYSON, George (1883–1964)
ELGAR, Edward (1857–1934)
FALLA, Manuel de (1876–1946)
FAURÉ, Gabriel (1845–1924)
FERGUSON, Howard (1908–1999)
FERRIER, Kathleen (contralto)
FIELD, John (1782–1837)
FINZI, Gerald (1901–56)
FISCHER-DIESKAU, Dietrich (baritone)
FISTOULARI, Anatole, conductor (see also under: ROSSINI: William Tell: ballet music)
FOERSTER, Josef Bohuslav (1859–1951)
FOULDS, John (1880–1939)
FRANÇAIX, Jean (1912–97)
FRANCK, César (1822–90)
FRESCOBALDI, Girolamo (1583–1643)
FURTWÄNGLER, Wilhelm
GARDNER, John (born 1917)
GAY, John (1685–1732)
GERMAN, Edward (1862–1936)
GERSHWIN, George (1898–1937)
GESUALDO, Carlo de Venosa (c. 1561–1613)
GIBBONS, Orlando (1583–1625)
GIBSON, Alexander (conductor), with (i) New Symphony Orchestra or (ii) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
GIBSON, Alexander (conductor), with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
GINASTERA, Alberto (1916–83)
GIORDANO , Umberto (1867–1948)
GLAZUNOV, Alexander (1865–1936)
GLINKA, Mikhail (1804–57)
‘GLORIOUS MAJESTY Music for English Kings and Queens’
GLUCK, Christoph (1714–87)
GOLDMARK, Karl (1830–1915)
GÓRECKI, Henryk (1933–2010)
GOTTSCHALK, Louis (1829–69)
GOUNOD, Charles (1818–93)
GRAINGER, Percy (1882–1961)
GRÉTRY, André (1741–1813)
GRIEG, Edvard (1843–1907)
GROFÉ, Ferde (1892–1972)
GUERRERO, Francisco (1528–99)
GURNEY, Ivor (1890–1937)
HADLEY, Patrick (1899–1973)
HANDEL, George Frideric (1685–1759)
HANSON, Howard (1896–1981)
HARTY, Hamilton (1879–1941)
HAYDN, Joseph (1732–1809)
HAYDN, Michael (1737–1806)
HENZE, Hans Werner (born 1926)
HÉROLD, Ferdinand (1791–1833)
HERRMANN, Bernard (1911–75)
HILDEGARD of Bingen (1098–1179)
HINDEMITH, Paul (1895–1963)
HOLBORNE, Antony (c. 1560–1602)
HOLMBOE, Vagn (1909–96)
HOLST, Gustav (1874–1934)
HONEGGER, Arthur (1892–1955)
HORNE, Marilyn (mezzo-soprano)
HOROVITZ, Joseph (born 1926)
HOVHANESS, Alan (1911–2000)
HOWELLS, Herbert (1892–1983)
HUMMEL, Johann (1778–1837)
HUMPERDINCK, Engelbert (1854–1921)
IBERT, Jacques (1890–1962)
INDY, Vincent d’ (1851–1931)
IRELAND, John (1879–1962)
IVES, Charles (1874–1954)
JANÁČEK, Leoš (1854–1928)
JÄRNEFELT, Armas (1869–1958)
JOSQUIN DESPREZ (c. 1450–1521)
KABALEVSKY, Dmitri (1904–87)
KARAJAN, Herbert von, conducting Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
KARAJAN, Herbert von, conducting Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra or Orchestre de Paris
KARAJAN, Herbert von, conducting Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
KERN, Jerome (1885–1945)
KHACHATURIAN, Aram (1903–78)
KODÁLY, Zoltán (1882–1967)
KOECHLIN, Charles (1867–1950)
KORNGOLD, Erich (1897–1957)
LALO, Edouard (1823–92)
LAMBERT, Constant (1905–51)
LANGGAARD, Rued (1893–1952)
LARROCHA, Alicia de (pianist)
LECLAIR, Jean-Marie (1697–1764)
LECOCQ, Alexandre (1832–1918)
LEHÁR, Franz (1870–1948)
LEIGH, Walter (1905–42)
LEIGHTON, Kenneth (1929–88)
LEONINUS, Magister (c. 1153–1201)
LE ROUX, Gaspard (c. 1660–1707)
LIADOV, Anatol (1855–1914)
LIPATTI, Dinu (piano)
LISZT, Franz (1811–86)
LOCATELLI, Pietro (1695–1764)
LOEWE, Frederick (1901–88), with Alan Jay LERNER (1918–86)
LUDWIG, Christa (mezzo-soprano)
LULLY, Jean-Baptiste (1632–87)
LUMBYE, Hans Christian (1810–74)
LUPU, Radu (piano)
LUTOSŁAWSKI, Witold (1913–94)
McCABE, John (born 1939)
MacCUNN, Hamish (1868–1916)
MacDOWELL, Edward (1860–1908)
McEWEN, John Blackwood (1868–1948)
MACKENZIE, Alexander (1847–1935)
MacMILLAN, James (born 1959)
MACONCHY, Elizabeth (1907–94)
MAGNARD, Albéric (1865–1914)
MAHLER, Gustav (1860–1911)
MARCELLO, Alessandro (1669–1747)
MARCELLO, Benedetto (1686–1739)
MARRINER, Neville, with Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
MARTIN, Frank (1890–1974)
MARTINŮ, Bohuslav (1890–1959)
MASSENET, Jules (1842–1912)
MATHIAS, William (1934–92)
MATTHEWS, Colin (born 1946)
MAYERL, Billy (1902–59)
MELOS ENSEMBLE (with Osian Ellis, harp)
MENDELSSOHN, Felix (1809–47)
MENOTTI, Gian Carlo (1911-2007)
MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE Anthology (recordings not available separately)
MESSAGER, André (1853–1929)
MESSIAEN, Olivier (1908–92)
MEYERBEER, Giacomo (1791-1864)
MIASKOVSKY, Nikolai (1881-1950)
MILHAUD, Darius (1892-1974)
MOERAN, Ernest J. (1894–1950)
MOMPOU, Federico (1893-1987)
MONDONVILLE, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de (1711-72)
MONTEVERDI, Claudio (1567-1643)
MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91)
MUSSORGSKY, Modest (1839–81)
NIELSEN, Carl (1865–1931)
NØRGÅRD, Per (born 1932)
NORRINGTON, Roger, with London Philharmonic Choir and London Philharmonic Orchestra
OCKEGHEM, Johannes (c. 1410–97)
OFFENBACH, Jacques (1819–80)
ORFF, Carl (1895–1982)
ORMANDY, Eugene, with Philadelphia Orchestra
PAGANINI, Niccolò (1782–1840)
PALESTRINA, Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525–1594)
PARRY, Hubert (1848–1918)
PÄRT, Arvo (born 1935)
PAVAROTTI, Luciano (tenor)
PEARS, Peter (tenor)
PENDERECKI, Kzysztof (born 1933)
PERGOLESI, Giovanni Battista (1710–36)
PEROTINUS, Magister (c. 1160–1225)
PIATIGORSKY, Gregor (cello)
PIERNÉ, Gabriel (1863–1937)
PIZZETTI, Ildebrando (1880-1968)
PONCHIELLI, Amilcare (1834–86)
POULENC, Francis (1899–1963)
PRAETORIUS, Michael (1571–1621)
PROKOFIEV, Serge (1891–1953)
PUCCINI, Giacomo (1858–1924)
PURCELL, Henry (1659–95)
RACHMANINOV, Sergei (1873–1943)
RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
RAUTAVAARA, Einojuhani (born 1928)
RAVEL, Maurice (1875-1937)
RAWSTHORNE, Alan (1905-71)
RESPIGHI, Ottorino (1879-1936)
RICCI, Ruggiero (violin)
RIES, Ferdinand (1784-1838)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolay (1844-1908)
ROREM, Ned (born 1923)
ROSSINI, Gioachino (1792-1868)
ROUSE, Christopher (born 1949)
ROUSSEL, Albert (1869-1937)
RÓZSA, Miklós (1907-95)
RUBBRA, Edmund (1901-86)
RUTTER, John (born 1945)
SÆVERUD, Harald (1897-1992)
SAINT-SAËNS, Camille (1835-1921)
SALIERI, Antonio (1750-1825)
SALLINEN, Aulis (born 1935)
SATIE, Eric (1866-1925)
SCARLATTI, Domenico (1685-1757)
SCHARWENKA, Franz Xaver (1850-1924)
SCHMIDT, Franz (1874–1939)
SCHOECK, Othmar (1886–1957)
SCHOENBERG, Arnold (1874–1951)
SCHREKER, Franz (1878–1934)
SCHUBERT, Franz (1797–1828)
SCHULHOFF, Ervin (1894–1942)
SCHUMAN, William (1910–92)
SCHUMANN, Robert (1810–56)
SCHÜTZ, Heinrich (1585–1672)
SCOTT, Cyril (1879–1970)
SCRIABIN, Alexander (1872–1915)
SEIBER, Mátyás (1905–60)
SHEPPARD, John (c. 1515–c. 1559)
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906–75)
SIBELIUS, Jean (1865–1957)
SIMPSON, Robert (1921–97)
SMETANA, Bedřich (1824–84)
SMITH, Alice Mary (1839–84)
SMYTH, Ethel (1858–1944)
SOLER, Antonio (1729–83)
SPOHR, Ludwig (1784–1859)
STAINER, John (1840–1901)
STANFORD, Charles (1852–1924)
STANLEY, John (1712–86)
STENHAMMAR, Wilhelm (1871–1927)
STERNDALE BENNETT, William (1816–75)
STOKOWSKI, Leopold (conductor)
STRAUSS Family
STRAUSS, Richard (1864–1949)
STRAVINSKY, Igor (1882–1971)
STRIGGIO, Alessandro (c. 1536/7–92)
SUK, Josef (1874–1935)
SULLIVAN, Arthur (1842–1900)
SUPPÉ, Franz von (1819–95)
SUTHERLAND, Joan (soprano), with Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Franscesco Molinari Pradelli
SWEELINCK, Jan (1562–1621)
SZELL, George (conductor)
SZYMANOWSKI, Karol (1882–1937)
TALLIS, Thomas (c. 1505–85)
TANEYEV, Sergei (1856–1915)
TÁRREGA, Francisco (1852–1909)
TARTINI, Giuseppe (1692–1770)
TAVENER, John (born 1944)
TAVERNER, John (c. 1495–1545)
TCHAIKOVSKY, Peter (1840–93)
TELEMANN, Georg (1681–1767)
THOMAS, Ambroise (1811–96)
TIPPETT, Michael (1905–98)
TOMKINS, Thomas (1572–1656)
TORELLI, Giuseppe (1658–1709)
TOSCANINI, Arturo, with NBC Symphony Orchestra
TREDICI, David Del (born 1937)
TUBIN, Eduard (1905–82)
TURINA, Joaquin (1882–1949)
TURNAGE, Mark-Anthony (born 1960)
VAŇHAL, Jan (1739–1813)
VARÈSE, Edgar (1883–1965)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph (1872–1958)
VERDI, Giuseppe (1813–1901)
VICTORIA, Tomás Luis de (c. 1548-1611)
VILLA-LOBOS, Heitor (1887-1959)
VIVALDI, Antonio (1678–1741)
WAGNER, Richard (1813–83)
WALLACE, William (1860–1940)
WALTON, William (1902–83)
WARLOCK, Peter (1894-1930)
WAXMAN, Franz (1906–67)
WEBER, Carl Maria von (1786–1826)
WEBERN, Anton (1883–1945)
WEILL, Kurt (1900–1950)
WIDOR, Charles-Marie (1844–1937)
WIENIAWSKI, Henryk (1835–80)
WILLIAMS, Grace (1906–77)
WILLIAMSON, Malcolm (1931–2003)
WIRÉN, Dag (1905–86)
WOLF, Hugo (1860–1903)
WOLFF, Albert, with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
WOLF-FERRARI, Ermanno (1876–1948)
WOOD, Haydn (1882–1959)
WUNDERLICH, Fritz (tenor)
XENAKIS, Iannis (1922–2001)
YOST, Michél (1754–86)
YSAŸE, Eugène (1858–1931)
ZANDONAI, Riccardo (1883–1944)
ZELENKA, Jan (1679–1745)
ZEMLINSKY, Alexander von (1871–1942)
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