Listeners have enjoyed classical music recordings for more than a century yet important issues about recorded performances have been little explored. What is th... » 

Listeners have enjoyed classical music recordings for more than a century yet important issues about recorded performances have been little explored. What is the relationship between performance and recording? How are modern audiences affected by the trends set in motion by the recording era? What is the impact of recordings on the lives of musicians? In this wideranging book Robert Philips extends the scope of his earlier pioneering book Early Recordings and Musical Style Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance 19001950. Philips here considers the interaction between musicmaking and recording throughout the entire twentieth century. «