Synaphaï: Gene Gaudette's Blog

The first volume of Alfred Deller's complete Vanguard recordings is about to be issued on the Musical Concepts label – a seven-disc set of Folk Songs and Ballads performed by the legendary countertenor and the Deller Consort. Details will appear here the last week of June.

... Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville was making recordings with the phonautograph. A century and a half later, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory devised a way to play them back. Read the article here.

With a little help from Avie Records' Simon Foster, remarkable producer Malcolm Bruno, and a few friends – including Anonymous 4 alumna Ruth Cunningham – New York Polyphony, a quartet of gentlemen who bring a highly individualistic sound and passionate musicality to a millennium of vocal music, have issued their first CD: a program of music for the festive season. You can order a copy here.

Full disclosure: I'm marketing advisor to Avie's US distributor.

My client Forte Distribution is distributing Trevor Pinnock's new recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, just released on the UK's hottest classical indie label, Avie. FT's Andrew Clark calls them "my first-choice recording of the Brandenburgs." You can buy them here.