The Chocolate Record Player (1902), a Stollwerck gramophone, was a novelty toy designed to play chocolate discs. Stollwerck had been founded in Germany in 1839, and by the end of the century it was ...

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Refiner's Fire celebrates one of the world's pioneering period-instrument ensembles, and one of the most successful recording partnerships The music critic and regular Gramophone contributor Richard ...

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Ever since its completion, with this recording of Die Walküre in the autumn of 1965, the Solti Ring has won no shortage of accolades. This award is made more specifically to recognise the work of the ...

Gramophone has just issued a special publication drawing together some of the most significant articles from our archives exploring the music of JS Bach. Across 100 pages of beautifully-presented ...