Previous Page: The British Decca Record Company played prominent role in the improvisation of phonographic recording after World War II. The Decca recording company created the full frequency range recording which overnight became internationally accepted, plus, the frequency range of discs was decidedly and dramatically extended. Ernest Ansermet's recording of Stravinsky's Petrushka played an important instrumental role in the development of frequency range records which was to wake up the unsuspecting ears of many record collectors in 1946 to the future of high fidelity potential of the (ffrr's) records.
The Decca company's full frequency range recording gained recognition on a worldwide scale, two further improvements to phonographic recording production came about in the late 1940s: the magnetic recording and the first long-playing (LP) record. The 1950’s saw the British Decca Recording Company really getting into the swing of the musical development in sound reproduction. The 1950’s saw the British Decca Recording Company really getting into the technological swing of musical development in sound reproduction on recording discs as they again came up trumps influencing the serious music lover of the melodious competence.
