Anthony Kershaw

3 weeks ago | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

And I mean fully back with a vengeance. Everybody loves a comeback story, and in the CD’s return, we have a good one. For some music lovers and audiophiles, the CD remains a staple. However, many consigned their CD players to the bottom rack and the software to boxes in the darkest corner of their music room’s closet. The perch of the once shiny, sexy CD player taken over by even sexier turntables, DACs and the nail in the CD’s coffin, or, so we thought, the Network Streamer.

1 month ago | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

This classic DG Boston recording was one of the first classical LPs I purchased with my “pocket money” from the famous “The Coop” in Harvard Square during one of my many visits to family in Boston. It was released in 1971, and I listened to it incessantly concurrent with my love affair with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, especially its fabulous flute section—I had begun playing the flute a year earlier. I was already set on becoming a professional player, god willing.

2 months ago | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

Schubert Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor, D. 821Schumann Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102Debussy Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in D minorMstislav Rostropovich, VioloncelloBenjamin Britten, PianoProduct ID: ESSD-90303This very famous Decca was recorded by Ken Wilkinson and Gordon Parry in The Maltings, Snape, UK, in 1968 and released on Decca and London in October 1970. The Decca vinyl originals go for over $2000, the Londons less, but still over two hundred bucks.

Feb 15, 2025 | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

I receive between ten to fifteen emails a week from excited PR folks telling me about their latest boutique CD release of a star performer playing all matter of repertoire. Some of it is really “out there”. As the major record companies recede into relative classical obscurity, the recorded legacy of many gifted young players examining varied repertoire continues to grow. Hope. The email introducing American Sketches seemed intriguing—interesting, unusual repertoire played by a young violinist.

Feb 3, 2025 | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

Well, here it is. It's the UHQR remaster from Analogue Productions that Steely Dan fans have been waiting for but worried about. The worry? The original 1975 ABC Records recording, encoded with dbx, has never had the reputation of the band’s other great recordings like Aja and Gaucho.