My first review for Gramophone was of a Chopin recital (the Ballades and Impromptus) by Nikita Magaloff; the start of a complete cycle for Philips. My review, more critical than constructive, was ...

Feb. 19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone. Edison, who also invented the incandescent light bulb and motion picture camera, died in 1931. In 1922, ...

I had been a Gramophone reader and LP collector since my early teens, thanks to the encouragement of an enlightened schoolmaster. As a postgraduate student, I was taken on by The Guardian as a concert ...