I started getting bit by the record-collecting bug when I was in what we used to call Junior High school, nowadays Middle School. I had...

My fit of summertime audiophilia nervosa is officially over. I hope. Despite a fair amount of equipment change – well, OK, it was...

It has been a long time since the once-reviled "mechanical music" began making its inroads on our profession. Early in the 20th century,...

This afternoon I got out my Philips LP of George Szell conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Sibelius 2nd Symphony. This is...

I would have been about 15 years old. The family lived in Applewood, a western suburb of Denver. We rented a small townhouse, nothing...

My collection of recordings is so large as to be daunting. It takes up about six terabytes of disc space, all either FLAC or Apple...

Blomstedt, Gothenburg, Stenhammar, and BIS: Heaven I'm definitely an audiophile but I sincerely hope that I never devolve into the crazy...

I make absolutely no secret of being a wildly enthusiastic record collector. Some might call it an addiction. But they just don't know a...

Recording venues aren't famous as a rule. Even Abbey Road Studios is familiar not so much for itself, but for the famed Beatles album. Most people have never heard of such places as the Sofiensaal (the site of many great Decca recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic) or Philadelphia's Broadwood Hotel (Columbia Masterworks and the Philadelphia Orchestra). Recordings have to be made somewhere , after all, but the actual locale is usually buried somewhere in the technical credit

You gotta admire the sheer cheek of conductors Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, and Osmo Vänskä. They’ve done...

Fascinated by recordings at an early age, but saddled with a kid’s limited budget and even more limited accessibility from my perch in a...

Certain pieces make me happier like no others, and Mozart Symphony No. 39 ranks high on that list. I'm particularly potty about the slow...

For whatever reason, of late I've been listening to a lot of Debussy orchestral music in various recordings, ranging from the 1930s to...