* 1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.

By this time Ravel, like Edward Elgar, had become convinced of the importance of recording his works, especially with his input and direction.

* Interview with Edward Hardwicke-British Library sound recording

Historians Edward Hyams and George Ordish believe quipus were recording devices, similar to musical notation, in that the notes on the page present basic information, and the performer would then bring those details to life.

These had green labels, and the catalogue included some ambitious items, such as an abridged version ( 1925 ) of Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius and, from Novello, what has been reported as the first recording of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 ( arranged for piano by Carl Tausig ) and a complete recording of Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto, her sole recording of a work extending over more than two record sides.

Edward Holland, Jr. ( born October 30, 1939, Detroit, Michigan, known during his recording career as Eddie Holland ) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

Hale also served as narrator for Arthur Fiedler's 1953 RCA Victor high fidelity recording with the Boston Pops Orchestra, which included Paul Dukas ' The Sorcerer's Apprentice and King Henry VIII dances by Camille Saint-Saëns and Edward German.

She became particularly associated with contemporary British music, giving the world premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Piano Concerto ( which was written for her ) and recording Edward Elgar's Piano Quintet with the Stratton Quartet under the composer's supervision.

Notable musical roles include lead roles in The Phantom of the Opera ( as " The Phantom "), The Secret Garden ( as " Archibald Craven "), Annie ( as Daddy Warbucks ), Guys and Dolls ( as " Sky Masterson "), My Fair Lady ( as " Henry Higgins "), Jekyll and Hyde ( original gothic thriller cast recording only, as " Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde "), Man of La Mancha ( as Don Quixote ), and A Little Night Music ( as Frederik Egerman ), as well as a significant supporting role in Les Misérables ( as Enjolras ).

Gaisberg ( l ) with Edward Elgar | Sir Edward Elgar and Yehudi Menuhin outside the EMI studios after the recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto ( Elgar ) | Violin Concerto in 1932.

During the Second World War, MacMillan conducted the TSO in a recording of Pomp and Circumstance March No. 2, by Sir Edward Elgar, recorded on 78 RPM < span class =" plainlinks "> phonograph records, for RCA Victor.

Composer Edward Shearmur wrote the film's lavish orchestral score in the style of Hollywood's golden-age composers, and the film's end-title sequence featured a new recording of the Oscar-winning standard " Over the Rainbow " sung by American jazz singer Jane Monheit, which were all featured on Sony Classical's original motion picture soundtrack recording.

* Leila Megane, Unidentified Orchestra, Edward Elgar ( first complete recording made on 11 October 1922, with Elgar conducting ) available in The Elgar Edition GEMMCDS 9951 – 5 ( Pavilion Records ).

Under the guidance of Edward West, Vice-President of Warner Bros. Records Inc in 1973 and its executives, A & R managers and staff producers, including Mo Ostin, Stan Cornyn, Lenny Waronker, Andy Wickham, Russ Titelman and ex-Warner Bros. recording artist ( with Harpers Bizarre ) Ted Templeman, sales grew streadily throughout the 1970s and by the end of the decade it had become one of the world's leading rock labels, with a star-studded roster that included Curved Air, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, Van Morrison, America, Alice Cooper, Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, Seals & Crofts, Labelle and Rickie Lee Jones.

The story is ostensibly the transcription of a Navy tape recording, as related by Commander Edward J. Richardson for use in a war bond drive, of events resulting in his award of the Medal of Honor.

In 1591 Sir Edward Mansel of Margam wrote his historical document recording ' The winning of Glamorgan ' and recorded:

Higgs was instrumental in the foundation of modern Jamaican music, first recording in 1958 for producer and businessman ( and later Jamaican Prime Minister ) Edward Seaga, both as a solo artist and with Roy Wilson.

* Eddie Kendricks ( Edward James Kendrick, 1939 – 1992 ), Motown recording artist and founding member of The Temptations

The organization also helped several living composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, Peter Warlock ( first recording of The Curlew ), Eugene Goossens, Arnold Schönberg ( original chamber version of Verklärte Nacht ) and Sir Edward Elgar to gain greater recognition for their works.

There have been more than sixty recordings of the Variations since Elgar's first recording, made by the acoustic process in 1924.

That recording has been remastered for compact disc ; the EMI CD couples it with Elgar's Violin Concerto conducted by the composer with Yehudi Menuhin as the soloist.

She has released multiple albums, winning the Critics Award at the Classic Brit Awards in 2011 for her recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto.

Boult had striven to maintain the orchestra's standards and prestige during the war ; as an instance of its prowess in the 1940s Kennedy cites an HMV recording of Elgar's Second Symphony released in January 1945: " a performance that blazed with excitement and passion and is documentary evidence of the excellence of the orchestra in 1944 ".

Under Elgar's direction she made a recording of his Piano Quintet with the Stratton String Quartet.

* Muriel Brunskill Elgar's Interpreters on Record Volume 2 — Historic Recordings ( also includes recording by Clara Butt ) Dutton CDAX8020

Benjamin Britten's 1971 recording for Decca was noted for its fidelity to Elgar's score, showing, as the Gramophone reviewer said, that " following the composer's instructions strengthens the music's dramatic impact ".

A recording released in 2006 used a text based on Elgar's manuscript score rather than the published version.

In 1972, while preparing a new recording, Georg Solti studied Elgar's 1931 performance.

Butt's only recording from Elgar's monumental song cycle was Where corals lie.

It was the Peresson cello that du Pré played for the remainder of her career until 1973, using it for a second, live, recording of the Elgar Concerto, and her last studio recording, of Frédéric Chopin's Cello Sonata in G minor and César Franck's Violin Sonata in A arranged for cello, in December 1971.

In May 2009, Lloyd Webber was elected President of the Elgar Society in succession to Sir Adrian Boult, Lord Menuhin ( who conducted his Brit Award winning recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto ) and Richard Hickox.

The Temple Church's excellent acoustics have also attracted secular musicians: Sir John Barbirolli recorded a famous performance of the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams there in 1962 ( at the suggestion of Bernard Herrmann ), and Paul Tortelier made his recording of the complete Bach Cello Suites there in April 1982.

In 1992 he made an acclaimed recording of the Myaskovsky Cello Concerto with Julian Lloyd Webber and the London Symphony Orchestra for Philips Classics.

In 1990 his first recording with Channel Classics Records, the Bach Cello Suites, received considerable acclaim.

His extensive discography spans from a Grammy-award-winning recording of the Shostakovich Cello Concertos to a critically acclaimed recording of Bach's Suites for Solo Cello.

* European Archive Copyright free LP recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto, performed by Zara Nelsova ( cello ), Josef Krips ( conductor ), and the London Symphony Orchestra ( for non-American viewers only ) at the European Archive.

* Sala Sinfonica Pablo Casals – symphony hall dedicated to the renowned Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor best remembered for the recording the Bach Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939.

There is a 2003 recording of Francœur's Sonata in E for Cello and Piano on Delos by Zuill Bailey which shows off this composer to advantage.

Cellist Anner Bylsma used the Servais in his 1992 recording of the J. S. Bach: Suites for Unaccompanied Cello.

Though he had few performances of his music, and the BBC, the International Society for Contemporary Music ( ISCM ) Festival and the publishers Boosey & Hawkes all turned down the Concerto for Double String Orchestra ( later to be one of his most popular works ), a private recording of the First Piano Sonata by Phyllis Sellick attracted favourable reviews.

Additional releases included a number of Beethoven symphonies recorded with the New York Philharmonic during the 1930s, a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 on February 20, 1936, at which Rudolf Serkin made his New York debut, and one of the most celebrated underground Toscanini recordings of all, the legendary 1940 broadcast version of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, which has better soloists ( Zinka Milanov, Jussi Bjoerling, both in their prime ) and a more powerful style than the 1953 RCA studio recording, although the microphone placement was kinder to the soloists in 1953.

They returned to RCA Victor in 1968 and made their first digital recording, Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, in 1979.

In 1969 Malcolm Arnold conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the recording of Deep Purple's Concerto for Group and Orchestra composed by the group's organist, Jon Lord.

When preparing these two works for the recording I was determined that the tempi should be exactly as Bartók wrote and this led me to some extraordinary discoveries, chief of which was in the second movement of the Concerto for Orchestra.

* In 1970 Decca Records released a recording with Ernest Ansermet conducting the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, also including Frank Martin's Concerto for seven winds, percussion, and string orchestra.

Peter Katin's recording of Johannes Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op.

Documents and reminiscences on the recording of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major in 1965 ( Maurice André, Milan Munclinger, Ars Rediviva )

Some of them are formally unconventional, such as the one-movement Concerto No. 8, which is in the style of an operatic aria, and which is still periodically revived ( Jascha Heifetz championed it ), most recently in a 2006 recording by Hilary Hahn.

Nathan Milstein also championed the work and Milstein's recording of the Concerto ( 1963 ) is widely considered the definitive one.

* An American Celebration ; Volume II including live recording of Rouse Concerto with the New York Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic Special Editions

Also included is a studio recording of Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto also from 1955.

His July 15, 1909 somewhat abridged recording of the Grieg Concerto was not only the first recording of that work, but the first time any concerto had ever been recorded.

Later, in 1972, a live performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2 reunited Cliburn and Kondrashin with the Moscow Philharmonic in Moscow ; RCA Victor eventually released the performance, along with a studio recording of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, on CD.

He has also made a recording of Indian instrumentalist Ravi Shankar's Sitar Concerto No. 2, with Shankar and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.