In the course of his forty-year career, producer Wolf Erichson recorded almost eight hundred gramophone records and CDs of classical music, with over fifty of his recordings receiving awards and prizes.
Erichson was a specialist in the period performance practice of early music on original instruments, making him part of a fascinating trend that leads from the pioneering days of the Sixties to the present day.
Detailed conversations with key figures on the early music scene such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt and Bruno Weil flesh out this generously illustrated portrait of a man who wrote recording history. This is a thrilling look behind the scenes of the record business!