Words by Niek Nelissen (Translation: Margaret Koford) As a recording artist, the Viennese conductor Josef Krips (1902–1974) lived through the most significant technological developments in the music industry. His first recordings were released on 78rpm records, which could only hold about four minutes of music per side. From 1950 onwards music was recorded on tape […]

“Schmidt-Isserstedt is the man for the job. His reading is strong, spacious and noble, and the symphony emerges at its full tragic stature. The playing and recording are in every way worthy of him.” The Times, August 1953 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 7) “This well-engineered recording deserves repeated hearing.” The Times, March 1959 (Beethoven: Piano Concerto […]

Peter Quantrill shares his thoughts on this remarkable chamber music group DOWNLOAD FULL BOX SET BOOKLET HERE Nonconformism in the Low Countries has taken many forms. To pass quickly over only its salient manifestations in the history of music, the country already enjoyed a liberal conservative culture when the English composer Peter Philips escaped to […]