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 […]

Thomas Fine explains the background to the Kubelík Mercury Masters Sometime immediately before 23 April 1951, two young men boarded a train in New York City and travelled to Chicago carrying a new and technologically ground-breaking microphone. Recording engineers C. Robert (‘Bob’) Fine, 29, and George Piros, 31, arrived at Orchestra Hall the morning of […]