There are two new box sets that even the “person-who-has-everything” would love to get. The first is the most comprehensive box set devoted to songs about Paris ever issued: Chansons de Paris. On ...

This is FRESH AIR. The Decca label, which began as a British record company, pioneered high-fidelity sound and the long-playing record. A new 53-CD box called "Decca Sound," celebrating the early days ...

The Decca Sound is the sound of the history of recorded music. This handsome box set of 50 CDs from the enormous archive of the great English label, whose beginnings stretch back to 1929, is but a ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. What with the purchase of CDs falling in favor of downloading, companies are releasing budget sets of previously issued CDs. Now one has done the same ...

James Lock, who has died aged 69, was for many years Decca's chief engineer. His death, occurring within days of that of his distinguished colleague Christopher Raeburn, closes a chapter in the ...

The classical record industry remains in a funk, if not outright free fall, yet now is actually a great time to be collecting older classical recordings. Perhaps it’s desperate measures for desperate ...

Roy Wallace, recording engineer: born London 7 July 1927; married (two daughters); died London 18 August 2007. Roy Wallace was the creator of stereo balance at the Decca Recording Company, and its ...

In the 1940s, recording engineers perfected new sound techniques that were used in World War II — and which launched a hi-fi revolution. Lloyd Schwartz reviews the new 53-CD Decca box set. This is ...