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A Stradivarius from 1703 and a Guarnerius from 1738 from the collection of Dr Lowenberg used for these Anker recordings by Sam Fidelmann around 1912.

Happy Birthday yesterday to Franz Liszt! Born 22nd October 1811.

Edison Fellow Yanran Li writes about what we can learn from recordings by pupils of Clara Schumann in this new guest blog. blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-visi…

Could these British Library cylinder recordings actually be by Paganini's only pupil Camillo Sivori? Read the first part of Andrew Krastins' amazing detective story here! blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-visi…

Delighted to see that the story about British Library cylinders of possible Sivori recordings in The Strad has been picked up in Poland and France. ruchmuzyczny.pl/article/4354 search.app/jzzP5fZqbtWr48…

Andrew Krastins continues his fascinating story of British Library phonograph cylinders that could be by Paganini's only pupil Camillo Sivori. SIVORI IS DEAD! VIVA SIVORI! The haunting recorded legacy of Paganini’s only pupil, Part 2 - Sound and vision blog

Celebrate the 4th July with Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever whistled 122 years ago in 1902 by Georg Tramer (1871-1939)

I was delighted to see my old friend Alan Walker when he visited British Library to do some research for the second edition of his Chopin biography. I also interviewed him on his extraordinary 94 years for the collections (C1742).

The third and final part of the extraordinary story of violinist Camillo Sivori by Andrew Krastins was posted today. SIVORI IS DEAD!  VIVA SIVORI! The haunting recorded legacy of Paganini’s only pupil, Part 3 - Sound and vision blog

Delighted to be able to provide the majority of the 78rpm discs for this wonderful collection of recordings by Alfredo Campoli on Decca Eloquence Classics

Denise Molié (1903-1995) recorded four sides of Debussy for French HMV on 11th June 1928. Pleased to acquire two of them for British Library Sound Archive.

Violinist Maurice Rubinstein won the 1906 Klindworth-Scharwenka competition and made this disc in Berlin, apparently his only recording. Delighted to acquire this rare disc for the British Library Sound Archive.

On 9th November Cortot pupil Thierry de Brunhoff will be 90. His EMI recordings were re-issued on CD in 2004. Now a Benedictine monk, Brother Thierry Jean has been at En-Calcat Abbey since 1974. Bon anniversaire!

Delighted to write the booklet note for Jorge Bolet's complete Decca Classics recordings which include a selection of previously unpublished Chopin Nocturnes.

A recent acquisition. The premiere performance of Alan Rawsthorne's Violin Concerto (later to become No. 1) at the Cheltenham Festival in 1948 with Theo Olof, Halle Orchestra and John Barbirolli.

A US Vogue picture disc of a children's story The Trial of 'Bumble' the Bee performed by The Jewell Playhouse Inc. directed by James Jewell. Released in 1947.

The other side of the US Vogue picture discs from the last posting. This time it is 'The boy who cried wolf.'

Recently acquired! A recording made just after the premiere of the opera in 1911 with Eduard Kunneke conducting.

Delighted to acquire this rare disc by Busoni pupil Edward Weiss (1892-1984). Around 50 years later he participated in a Busoni Symposium at the National Sound Archive, the forerunner of the British Library Sound Archive.

Just acquired for British Library Sound Archive - a rare wartime recording made in Zurich by Paul Baumgartner (1903-1976).