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Gramophone Awards 2017 - Recording of the Year. by Chris O'Reilly. The Presto editorial team are currently over at 8 Northumberland Avenue for the annual Gramophone Awards, where this year's special awards and of course the coveted Recording of the Year prize have just been announced…. The overall category-winners (which were revealed on 1st ...
Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat major, Op. 55. Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim (Decca) Recording of the Month – May 2016. Gramophone Awards Finalist 2016 - Orchestra. 'Barenboim’s long association with, and love for, Elgar has effectively made it part of his musical DNA...And because he is a master he has somehow communicated all of ...
Early Sound Recording Devices During the early 1880s a contest developed between Thomas A. Edison and the Volta Laboratory team of Chichester A. Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter . The objective was to transform Edison's 1877 tinfoil phonograph, or talking machine, into an instrument capable of taking its place alongside the typewriter as a business correspondence device. This involved not only ...
Parlophone. Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 1923 as the Parlophone Company Limited (the Parlophone Co. Ltd.), which developed a reputation in the 1920s as ...
In 2016, von Otter sang Leonora in the world premiere of Thomas Adès' The Exterminating Angel, and again in 2017 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She created the principal role of Charlotte in Sebastian Fagerlund 's 2017 opera Autumn Sonata , based on the 1979 film by Ingmar Bergman at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki conducted ...
Spirit is the debut studio album by American rock band Spirit, released on January 22, 1968 by Ode Records. The album was commercially successful, spending more than six months on the Billboard album charts, [4] peaking at #31. It was voted number 658 in Colin Larkin 's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000).
Angelophone Records. Angelophone was a short-lived producer of disc phonographs and a record label founded in 1916 by Charles Taze Russell of the Watchtower, later known as Jehovah's Witnesses. In Watch Tower, 15 March 1917, it was announced that the company would go out of business.
