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 ...

Digital recording arrives, and a trailblazing independent label starts up in Sweden If the 1930s were a tough decade for the business, the 1970s presented their own challenges too, especially with the ...

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As Anthony Pollard has written in his history of the magazine’s first 75 years, ‘From the earliest days of the record industry, playing-time had always been a consideration’. The earliest seven-inch ...

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 ...